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But the bastion - as in the HESCO Bastion - has made a comeback:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion

Thanks to the wars in Afghanistan the founder got rich enough to buy Segway. Then he drove off a cliff in his Segway ending his life.

Camp Bastion in Afghanistan is a big base that is named after the HESCO Bastions it is made of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Shorabak

There is a surprising amount of money to be made in making containers for rocks, making black plastic bags for refuse and other things where you would not imagine a fortune could be made. As per the HESCO example it is a gruff Northerner with a 'where there is muck there is brass' attitude that inevitably exploits the potential. Shame about the Segway incident though.




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