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[Photo] Tidal Wave of Sand and Dust approaching Camp Bastion in Afghanistan

May 26, 2014 David Cenciotti

An interesting image of Camp Bastion eerily still as a sandstorm approaches one of the main strategic bases in Afghanistan. As already explained, sandstorms move extremely fast and can completely darken large areas in a […]

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[Photo] CH-53E Super Stallion at night in Afghanistan

December 18, 2013 David Cenciotti

The following image shows a lonely CH-53E Super Stallion assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462 (HMH-462) on the ground, during an operation at Forward Operating Base Price, Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Dec. 17, 2013. […]

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Impressive: huge Merlin helicopter eaten by C-17 cargo

June 11, 2013 David Cenciotti

After flying more than 18,000 hours in Afghanistan, moving more than 7,900 tonnes of kit and stores and transporting over 130,000 personnel since 2009, RAF Merlin helicopters have finished their deployment in the Helmand region, […]

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Reaper drone and Apache helicopter involved in the Camp Bastion battle that wiped out the U.S. Marine Corps Harrier force in Afghanistan

September 19, 2012 Richard Clements

Further details of the attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan by a squad of 15 Taliban fighters on Friday Sept. 14, that took out several US Marine Corp Harriers with the loss of two Marines […]

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Commanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among the Marines killed in the Taliban attack

September 17, 2012 David Cenciotti

The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten AV-8B+ […]

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