Patrol Base Shamshad is a foreign military base in
Helmand Province,
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
.
[
][
] The camp is south of
Garmsir.
[
]
Both
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
n and
British troops have occupied the base.
[ The base has been used to train Afghan soldiers.][
]
Units
The following units have been posted here at some point:
* 'A' Squadron of the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from Wales and the bordering English counties of Cheshire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and ...
[ under Operation Herrick IX between October 2008 and April 2009.
* Company C, Expeditionary Estonian Task Force during November 2009.
* 2nd Brigade Platoon, 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan during November 2009.
]
References
Military installations of Afghanistan
Military bases of the United Kingdom in Afghanistan
Military installations of Estonia
Bases
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