This is a light-hearted film about packing and moving house – until Camp Bastion is actually attacked
Summer 2014 and Britain’s biggest overseas base since the second world war is beginning to be packed up. With 28,000 troops, 4,032 contractors, 3,080 vehicles, 1,206 tents, restaurants … the numbers in *The Billion Pound Base: Dismantling Camp Bastion* (Channel 4, Sunday) are mighty impressive.
Or are they? Glastonbury – Camp Glastion – is way bigger: 175,000 people, many more tents and restaurants, and they just get on with it, in a couple of days, every year. But then I guess they’ve been there less time, have less stuff, and not so far to go. No airport either, nor military hardware, aircraft to get home, bombs to get rid of, Taliban lurking behind the perimeter fence, ready to pounce. Or maybe there will be next year, the deadly Somerset sleeper cell …
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Summer 2014 and Britain’s biggest overseas base since the second world war is beginning to be packed up. With 28,000 troops, 4,032 contractors, 3,080 vehicles, 1,206 tents, restaurants … the numbers in *The Billion Pound Base: Dismantling Camp Bastion* (Channel 4, Sunday) are mighty impressive.
Or are they? Glastonbury – Camp Glastion – is way bigger: 175,000 people, many more tents and restaurants, and they just get on with it, in a couple of days, every year. But then I guess they’ve been there less time, have less stuff, and not so far to go. No airport either, nor military hardware, aircraft to get home, bombs to get rid of, Taliban lurking behind the perimeter fence, ready to pounce. Or maybe there will be next year, the deadly Somerset sleeper cell …
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 22 hours ago.