Closing Camp Bastion
20 Jun 2014 10:26 AM
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.
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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
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