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Yellow lenses both trendy and an aid to observing ground sign
Lt Hewetson conducts a Shura with a local leader
The Royal Regiment of Scotland (The Highlanders), was seamless. Having received thorough handovers from everyone the Battlegroup was able to start conducting operations in Operations Box SEFTON an area that used to be within the Nad-e-Ali Battlegroup
the elections run off and also safeguarding election material during the subsequent audit. WO2 Bridges and his mortar platoon was tasked with guarding ballot boxes and so the future of Afghanistan, for a limited time only, lay with the ‘stove pipes’ as the
DIMOND could be handed over to the Afghan Security Forces. Both these have been completed and, bar a few US bases, the UK forces are now centralised in Camp Bastion.
As operations continue, a second front has opened up and that is being fought by the Quartermaster’s department and Light Aid Detachment. That front is the redeployment of equipment from Camp Bastion and the remediation of the
various camps we occupy within it. It is
a significant achievement involving 202 vehicles and main equipment, over half of the UK’s holdings in Bastion. The camps need to be stripped out, boards of officers conducted and camps handed over to the Afghan National Army. It is all on track for our departure by the end of the year.
area. It was far from
flogging a dead horse
and the Battlegroup,
along with our coalition
partners from 1st
Battalion 7th Marines,
came up against a
determined group of
insurgents. Since then the Battlegroup has dominated the area, particularly
to prevent attacks on Camp Bastion, which has worked to push the insurgents elsewhere. The Battlegroup has also been instrumental in securing the area during
Marines call them. The Battlegroup has also been heavily involved in the redeployment
of UK forces from Helmand. B Coy has been critical providing force protection on and around the wire
of Camp Bastion. The Battlegroup has deployed to disrupt in SEFTON to support the security of Highway 1, the main supply route running west to east through Helmand, so that what was Forward Operating Base PRICE and Patrol Base
The Warthog Group provide security to the BRF extraction
the Battlegroup has dominated the area, particularly to prevent attacks on Camp Bastion
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