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Camp Bastion is a Ministry of Defense airbase located northwest of the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The base has barracks for the Afghan National Army. Between 2005 and October 2014 it was the logistics hub for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Helmand during the War in Afghanistan and Operation Herrick, it was capable of accommodating over 32,000 people.〔 The camp was built by the British Army and was the largest British overseas military camp built since the Second World War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bye-bye Bastion )〕 The base was also home to troops from a number of nations including the United States of America and Tonga. Bastion contains Afghan National Army (ANA) Camp Shorabak, and held Camp Leatherneck until 2014.〔 In November 2006, the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Camp Bastion, and, while addressing a gathering of British troops, described it as an "extraordinary piece of desert ... where the fate of world security in the early 21st century is going to be decided". ==History== Camp Bastion began life as a Tactical Landing Zone set up by two Air Traffic Controllers from the Royal Air Force's Tactical Air Traffic Control Unit. This provided a vital and strategic insertion point in Helmand Province and unbeknownst to the two controllers, was to be the foundations for Camp Bastion. The camp started out with just a few tents in 2005〔 however from early 2006 personnel from 39 Engineer Regiment Royal Engineers and various contracting firms, all under the supervision of 62 Works Group Royal Engineers started to build the base with more robust facilities, the camp is situated in a remote desert area, far from population centres. Four miles long by two miles wide, it has a busy airfield and a field hospital and originally had full accommodation for the 2000 men and women. The base was named by the Commanding Officer of 62 Works Group (RE) based upon the units emblem of a lone Bastion; Hesco Bastion. The first camp to be built was Camp 251 which housed the construction force and they were housed in tents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How to Close Camp Bastion )〕 The base is divided into a number of different sections (Bastions). Bastion 1 and 2 were the first sections with Bastion 2 containing Camp Barber (US) and Camp Viking (DK), Bastion 0 was added in around 2010 and houses the contractors and Bastion 3 is used for in-theatre training. Camp Bastion includes Bastion Airfield, Bastion Garrison and the Camp Leatherneck.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=903 Expeditionary Air Wing )〕 As of September 2014 it was reported that both Bastion 2 & 3 have been reverted to desert.〔 Camp Bastion airfield and heliport handled up to 600 fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft movements every day in 2011, operating combat, medical and logistics flights.〔 Its air traffic controllers were integral to the support of the UK's operations in southern Afghanistan and the Air Traffic Control Squadron at Camp Bastion was the first to recruit and train US Marines to UK air traffic control standards. The first runway capable of landing C-17's direct from the United Kingdom opened on 3 December 2007. In February 2014, snow fell in Camp Bastion for the first time since the base was established, eight years earlier. The camp was handed over to the control of the Afghan security forces in October 2014.〔〔Drwiega, Andrew. "(Combat Operations Cease from Camp Bastion-Leatherneck )" ''Aviation Today'', 28 October 2014. Accessed: 29 October 2014.〕 On 27 November 2014, insurgents infiltrated Camp Bastion. As of Sunday 30 November, the Afghan National Army had not fully driven out the "Taliban" fighters. At least five ANA soldiers were killed in the attack.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/world/asia/taliban-overrun-an-afghan-army-base-.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A11%22%7D&_r=0〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camp Bastion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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