Camp Bastion

Coops remembers his helicopter turning around to collect his friend before they were both taken to Camp Bastion, and the long road to recovery began.

The aircraft, being used by the Royal Air Force at the time, suffered a heavy landing at Camp Bastion, a former British Army airbase in Helmand Province.

Clason took a couple of hard hits to the head during the deployment, and she worries about the toxic fumes she was exposed to from the burn pits at Camp Bastion, a sprawling coalition base in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

There were numerous Taliban attacks on Kabul and in September 2012, the group carried out a high-profile raid on Nato's Camp Bastion base.

The case in Manda Bay has some parallels to a 2012 attack by the Taliban on Camp Bastion, an airfield in southern Afghanistan.