Bagram Airbase, the largest military installation at the heart of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, was fully vacated in the early hours of Friday, July 2. The US Army and its allied forces abandoned their largest military base in the dead of the night, switching off the electricity on their way out. The longest war in the history of the United States ebbed and flowed from this sprawling complex that inhabited thousands of troops at its peak.
Bagram housed within its massive compound everything that the US and allied soldiers needed for a comfortable living. The rooms were well-equipped, barbeque stations installed outside their living quarters and a well-stocked hospital with the latest equipment and dental chair. According to an Afghan military official, the items that they left behind include a wide range of civilian cars and armored vehicles, but most of them do not have keys to start the ignition.
The wrecked first-aid boxes and physical items that the Americans left behind are reminiscent of years of war. They demolished not just their armoured cars but many other smaller items to prevent the Afghans from selling it for profit. But some things managed to slip out of these fortified walls and grace the shelves of many shops located at a short distance from the airbase.
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