This place is about 8 km east of Kabul. This structure is massive. It looks fortified and is 850 x 425 meters. It looks like it might be a prison. It does not look like an army base, at least not a US base. This view is from 12,000 feet up. I find Google Earth so helpful if letting me know about the lay of the land in news stories.
After hearing about the VP being at Bagram during a suicide attack on the main gate I was able to fly over to the air base and check it out. You can always tell US airbases by how F'ing huge and well planned they are compared to the squalid crap around them. See below...
The location of the suicide attack is not even on this image. The following image, taken from farther up has a red dot, added by me to show you the location of the main gate. As you can see the VP was never in danger and probably didn't even here anything more than a distant rumble. Short of a nuclear attack it would take an entire army to capture this base.
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