The Camp Bastion complex, near the large U.S. Camp Leatherneck, is one of the busiest airfields in the world, with more than 28, 000 people working on site, according to the UK Ministry of Defense.
Jenkins joined the Army to help find direction in his life, Littrell said, and when he heard recently the young soldier was being deployed to Camp Leatherneck in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, he felt the time had come to pass the torch.