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BRITAIN’S most battle-hardened Defence Minister in modern history laid a wreath at the weekend on behalf of the 457 British servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan.Credit: PA:Press Association
Does it get any easier with time? “It gets harder,” he says, as if still running the faces of the fallen through his mind., marked the tenth anniversary of the day the Union Jack was finally lowered at Camp Bastion, which for 13 years became HQ for 150,000 UK troops.
“It was a dust bowl with a dirt strip runway, a couple of helo landing sites, and maybe 30 tents.“I still remember the smell. A rawness of heat and sand and dust, and the smell of the tents and the aviation fuel from constant helicopters and aircraft coming in.Alistair Carns, Veterans Minister “You not only provided a service to the nation back home, but you were supporting, both directly and indirectly, the individuals forward.”
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