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Closing Camp Bastion
By the end of this year, the UK's main military base in Afghanistan will have closed. Meet the man who will make it all happen.
t takes an experienced eye to see it, but Camp Bastion, when viewed from above, is a good example of the contrast between British and American town planning. As a chartered civil engineer, and Joint Force Support’s infrastructure expert, Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Quinn has such an eye.
Walking round a vast briefing table, the surface of which was covered by an aerial photo of the camp, pointing out features, Colonel Quinn gave a loving account of the rise of Bastion. He could have been describing the way a small English settlement develops over the generations, driven by the needs of industry and the pressures of population, from a hamlet to a huge conurbation
