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Camp Bastion

British  
/ ˈbæstɪən /

noun

  1. a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006

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It started with the flight in – to Kandahar, Kabul or Camp Bastion.

From BBC

"Anywhere outside of Camp Bastion we could have been using them, sometimes for up to 12 hours a day," he says.

From BBC

Coops remembers his helicopter turning around to collect his friend before they were both taken to Camp Bastion, and the long road to recovery began.

From BBC

The aircraft, being used by the Royal Air Force at the time, suffered a heavy landing at Camp Bastion, a former British Army airbase in Helmand Province.

From BBC

Clason took a couple of hard hits to the head during the deployment, and she worries about the toxic fumes she was exposed to from the burn pits at Camp Bastion, a sprawling coalition base in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

From Washington Post