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Volume 15
USMC, USAF, and NATO in every major conflict
since the first Gulf war, saving countless lives
and mission critical assets.
August 2017 Edition
Both nations helped build Camp Bastion which
was used to house the Afghan National Army.
MIL units have been employed to safeguard personnel, ve-
hicles, equipment, facilities and other critical assets.
Hesco rapidly deployable systems were developed to reduce
the logistical burden during deployment.
The Concertainer™ MIL unit is a multi-cellular
barrier system lined with heavy-duty, non-woven
polypropylene geotextile and manufactured from
welded Zinc-Aluminium coated steel mesh.
The unique design, strength and versatility enable
easily-constructed corners, and when joined and
filled the system will shape the defensive barrier
to the surrounding landscape, creating barriers
of exceptional strength and structural integrity.
MIL Units
Whether used as a protective barrier or to de-
fine boundaries, HESCO MIL units have been
employed to safeguard equipment, facilities, ve-
hicles, personnel and critical assets in a variety
of operations such as military, peacekeeping, hu-
manitarian and civilian.
Camp Bastion
Camp Bastion (now called Camp Shorobak) was
the largest operational camp built since the Sec-
ond World War, located northwest of the city of
Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Adjacent to this was Camp Leatherneck, used by
the US Army.
Camp Bastion was also home to a multi-national
field hospital, one of the busiest heliports in the
world and a fully functional logistics airport.
Both external and internal perimeters were es-
tablished using Hesco defensive products.
“We have protected the men and women of the
United States military for fifteen years and we
are proud to continue supplying the DLA with the
protective barriers that soldiers have come to
trust and rely on,” said Stephanie Victory, Chief
Commercial Officer, Hesco Bastion, Inc., who is
extremely proud to receive such an accolade.
Stephanie
Victory, Chief
Commercial
Officer, Hesco
Bastion, Inc.
“This dis-
tinction
has been
achieved
by the ded-
icated ef-
forts of everyone in the Hesco team, based here
in the US and the UK; from production, logistics
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