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Logistics Manager’s Liza Helps has just returned from Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, where she saw at first hand the logistics effort involved in supporting British troops on the front line. In this, the first of three reports, she looks at what it takes to redeploy forces as the military withdrawal gathers pace.


straggly sunflowers cling to life buffeted by the occasional dust devil at Joint Force Support headquarters in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. It seems a strange thing to say to a journalist who has


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just spent four days travelling some 3,500 miles for the privilege of talking about just that. But if redeployment was only about bringing things back then it would be a different story. There are three stages to redeployment. The first is the


collation and processing of materiel and vehicles deemed surplus to requirements in theatre. The second stage is moving all the equipment and vehicles out of Afghanistan to their next destination. And the last stage is


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edeployment is not the first consideration, says Air Commodore John Bessell. We are sitting, rather incongruously, outside in a hexagonal wooden garden pergola where a few stunted


Reporter Liza Helps (in blue) at GSL outside the wire at Camp Bastion escorted by 2 Close Support Regiment.


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