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They are but simple goat herders digging holes for water :rolleyes: Yea right.


Anyone who thinks that these soldier's should have been dealt with in this way wants his head seeing to. But what do expect from the white feather brigade

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:clap: :clap: If only more did that

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It's not bad enough that they have put up with getting shot and blown up ,now they have the politicians and senior officers trying to do them in

makes me wonder how independent from the politicians this court marshall was ,how much was it influenced by no10? to get a favorable result in the eyes of the Afghan leaders or is it a case of the senior officers being idiots

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Indeed the list goes on much futher than the public really have been made away of. There are a couple of books on 3 Para's deployments and its really quite illuminating/frightening. In addition to the above:

1. Helicopters don't have winches so soldiers trapped in minefields have to rely on US helicopters to rescue them.

2. Helicopters aren't suited to CasEvacs so we rely on US helicopters for those two.

3. Due to appeasing the Afghan government troops are being deployed against their tradition roles and strengths. The Paras are used to working deep behind enemy lines as a recognisance force using a move, hit, move, hit strategy. At the moment they are being used to maintain fire support bases, remain sedentary and repel Taliban attacks add nauseam instead of taking the initative. This is not an Amry descision, its political as concerns about this being raised up to a Colonel level. Also once they were joined by a Danish light infantry group. When their commanders heard they were due to just sit there and survive being attacked they were pulled out. There we depolyed there less than a week.

4. Due to being spread so thin across numerous towns and the lack of helicopters (not to mention safe landing zones) supplies are falling unacceptably low. Sometimes as low as a few thousand rounds which would only last a couple of hours in an average fightfight and 1 MRE (meal packs) per day.

5. Even when supply changes are maintained, there are perennial shortages of certain items. For example: nightvision batteries. Soldiers often have to borrow these items off of other countries to just get by.

6. Having to put up with the continued corruption of the Afghan government, the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police.

Those are the ones that come to mind, there were others.

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And guess who it was that oversaw and controlled that situation. and also additionally controlled the money

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ooh ooh i love a good puzzle ...now let me think ...does it begin with G and end in B

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I think it begins in G and ends in N actually. :D

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Gordon Numpty? :confused:

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:LOL:

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That is beneath you.:(

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Nope thats starts with G and ends with Y. :)

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That would explain a lot, actually....;)

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Me too....

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:tu:

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So are people suggesting that soldiers should be free to beat up prisoners, or just that their punishment is too harsh?

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My view is that the punishment is too hard - when I was in the RAF, someone on my watch got beaten up (looked at someone's pint the wrong way) - he was less injured than the guy mentioned in the OP, and the assailant got two months inside, but stayed in the Mob.