BRITISH SAS Camp Bastion Joint Task Group JTF vêlkrö PATCH: UK FLAG DIGGER SKULL

Description: BRITISH SAS Camp Bastion Joint Task Group JTF vêlkrö PATCH: UK FLAG DIGGER SKULLThis is an Original (not cheap import copy) ELITE PROFESSIONAL JTF2 SAS Special Air Service BRITISH SAS Camp Bastion Joint Task Group JTF vêlkrö PATCH: UK FLAG DIGGER SKULL. You will receive the item as shown in the first photo. Other items in other pictures are available from my eBay Store. They will make a great addition to your SSI Shoulder Sleeve Insignia collection. You find only US Made items here, with the same LIFETIME warranty. I will send replacement patch if you return the damaged patch under normal use. The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. The SAS was founded in 1941 as a regiment, and later reconstituted as a corps in 1950. The unit undertakes a number of roles including covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, direct action and hostage rescue. The corps presently comprises 22 Special Air Service Regiment, the regular component under the operational command of United Kingdom Special Forces, and 21 (Artists) Special Air Service Regiment (Reserve)and 23 Special Air Service Regiment (Reserve), which are reserve units under the operational command of 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade. The Special Air Service traces its origins to 1941 and the Second World War and was reformed as part of the Territorial Army in 1947, named the 21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists Rifles). The 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, part of the regular army and later gained fame and recognition worldwide after successfully assaulting the Iranian Embassy in London and rescuing hostages during the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege, which lifted the regiment from obscurity outside the military establishment. Camp Bastion, a sprawling, well-fortified British-run base in the desert in southern Afghanistan, is the size of the UK town of Reading and home to almost 30,000 people. Bastion - with its own water bottling plant, hospital, police force and even Pizza Hut - is widely regarded as a safe haven for troops. However, a Taliban attack breaching the perimeter and resulting in the death of two US Marines has shown it is not impregnable. Camp Bastion is a Ministry of Defense airbase located northwest of the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The base has barracks for the Afghan National Army. Between 2005 and October 2014 it was the logistics hub for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Helmand during the War in Afghanistan and Operation Herrick, it was capable of accommodating over 32,000 people. The camp was built by the British Army and was the largest British overseas military camp built since the Second World War. The base was also home to troops from a number of nations including the United States of America and Tonga. Bastion contains Afghan National Army (ANA) Camp Shorabak, and held Camp Leatherneck until 2014. In November 2006, the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Camp Bastion, and, while addressing a gathering of British troops, described it as an "extraordinary piece of desert ... where the fate of world security in the early 21st century is going to be decided". Following the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001 (now commonly referred to as '9/11'), Britain deployed its armed forces to Afghanistan alongside the US and other allies. Their mission was to destroy al-Qaeda - the group behind the attacks - and the Taliban regime which supported them. The Taliban was quickly overthrown and soldiers turned their attention to peacekeeping and reconstruction projects. By 2004, however, a re-organised Taliban had stepped up their attacks on the new Afghan government's security forces and on the international coalition's troops. In April 2006, the British Army redeployed in strength, focusing on the southern province of Helmand. Over 3,000 troops were sent to help with reconstruction and security efforts. They operated out of Camp Bastion, a purpose-built base in the desert near the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.In April 2006, Hospital Squadron of 22 Field Hospital arrived at Bastion and set up a 25-bed tented structure. This could expand to 86 beds, if needed. Separate tents, with inter-connecting corridors, were erected for operating theatres, wards, an X-ray department and an emergency department. These were the humble beginnings of Camp Bastion Hospital. In February 2008, ten months later than planned, work was completed on upgrading the hospital from a Tier 1 temporary tented facility to a Tier 2 semi-permanent purpose-built structure. This enabled logistical adjustments that turned out to be lifesaving. The ‘Right Turn Resuscitation’ process was introduced, meaning critically injured patients were taken straight into the operating theatre to the right when they entered the hospital, rather than waiting for assessment in the emergency department. One of the main threats to soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan came from IEDs. These killed 224 British soldiers and seriously wounded many more. For medical staff on their first deployment, the severity of the IED-related injuries seen at Camp Bastion Hospital was something they were unlikely to have experienced at their NHS practices. Missing limbs, significant and visible tissue loss, as well as substantial internal blast injuries were common and meant major trauma patients were routine. Camp Bastion was attacked several times. One of the worst incidents was the Taliban raid on 14 September 2012, which killed two US Marines and destroyed or damaged several aircraft before the raiders were killed or captured. This threat meant that all personnel, including medical staff, had to wear body armour during alarms and to take part in regular training drills. Outside of Camp Bastion, individual medics were regularly deployed with British Army units. By 2007, the guerrilla nature of encounters with the Taliban meant that Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) needed to be established in hostile zones. Medical troops worked at these bases and also accompanied British soldiers when they were drawn into heavy firefights in towns like Musa Qala and Sangin. Other medics worked at regional medical centres such as the one at Lashkar Gah, treating both soldiers and Afghan civilians.Evacuating casualties by road was dangerous and almost impossible due to the high number of IEDs planted by the Taliban. The safest way to get casualties from the field to Camp Bastion Hospital was to have them flown out by the medical emergency response team (MERT), usually by Royal Air Force CH-47 Chinooks. This method was introduced soon after the deployment to Helmand. By 2007, in-flight blood transfusions could be carried out. From 2008, anaesthetists and emergency physicians accompanied most teams. In 2011, the British signalled their intention to end all combat missions in Afghanistan by December 2014. As part of this gradual withdrawal, a new troop medical centre (TMC) was established at Camp Shorabak, adjacent to Camp Bastion. It had a ward accommodating 20 beds, a primary healthcare facility and two resuscitation bays. US and Danish mentors were based there and the deployed medical director from Camp Bastion Hospital attended ward rounds every other week with Afghan National Army surgeons. Regular ‘train the trainer’ sessions were held there and at Bastion. This training policy established Bastion’s legacy, enhancing the skills of those locals working at the TMC to treat casualties, and enabling the gradual transfer of Afghan National Security Forces personnel and Afghan civilians to the facility. In 2014, all bases were gradually closed and medical support outside Bastion ended. The British hospital at Bastion was closed on 22 September, and the British combat mission in Afghanistan finally ended on 26 October 2014 with the handover of Camp Bastion to Afghan forces.Camp Bastion, which was the biggest ever British army base, has been left destroyed amid fears the Taliban could soon overrun it. Taliban forces have been moving closer towards the base in recent weeks and are now in control over half of the Helmand province. The army-base-turned-ghost-town was given to the Afghan government forces as a barracks for troops in October 2014. Prior to this, more than 10,000 brave soldiers once called the camp home during the 13 years the British spent fighting the Taliban in the area. Camp Bastion cost £50m to fully build in 2006 and a further £300m to wipe it clean of British assets eight years later. The total cost to British taxpayers of setting up and running the camp was £20billion. The footage filmed by the BBC last week revealed a derelict, empty camp. The deserted camp still features rolls of barbed wire, concrete walls, radar towers and aircraft hangars - all empty and in collapse. The Ministry of Defence said in response to the new footage: "The UK has a long-term commitment to build a more secure, stable and prosperous Afghanistan. "Though our combat mission ended in 2014, the UK continues to support the Government of Afghanistan through NATO’s train, advise and assist mission, Resolute Support. "The UK also provides substantial political, financial and development support." Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said at the time of Camp Bastion's closure two years ago that there was “no guarantee” Afghanistan would be “stable and safe” following the departure of western fighting forces. The former Prime Minister, David Cameron called the drawdown "mission accomplished". But, just weeks after the British left, the Taliban launched a powerful assault on the base. In a shocking indictment of security following the British hand-over, the United States confirmed that they have been forced to use 90 ‘Special Operations’ soldiers to defend the site. They now occupy a tiny corner of Camp Bastion - the rest remains a ghost town. A British security source who visited Helmand even told The Mail on Sunday that the Afghan Army was paying the Taliban thousands of US dollars not to attack them. Intelligence reports have since suggested that the Taliban may be planning to invade Camp Bastion as a symbolic move intended to secure publicity across the world. Colonel Richard Kemp, who led British troops in Afghanistan, said: "Camp Bastion is also a likely objective for the Taliban, if only symbolically, as a demonstration of their capability. Joe Glenton, a former soldier with the Royal Logistic Corps in Afghanistan, said the decision to re-invade Afghanistan had "re-energised the Taliban" and operations from Camp Bastion and similar bases "destabilised the entire region". He told the Independent: "The presence of troops acted as a lighting rod for local resistance. "The decision to re-invade reenergised the Taliban and pulled in non-Taliban local fighters at the costs of thousands of British and Afghan dead and wounded. "We should have left earlier or, better, have never committed thousands of troops into a region we did not understand, with no plan, on behalf of the corrupt Karzai puppet regime." 454 British soldiers lost their lives in Helmand province during the campaign against the Taliban from 2006 to 2014. (By OLI SMITH). 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