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Much of the once-sprawling base at Camp Bastion has now returned to lengthy strips of desert. Marking the end of combat operations in Afghanistan after 13 years, billions of dollars and many deaths - tens of thousands of them of Afghan troops...

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Abandoned: Brigadier Rob Thomson said at the empty base: 'I am kind of optimistic I think what we have achieved is something we can be proud of.