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Originally Posted by martyh
He says there are 60%more helicopters in service now compared to 2006
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Brown chooses to use a percentage figure here because it sounds a lot more impressive than the actual number which is just 30 or thereabouts IIRC. A 60% increase from, say, 20 to 32 doesn't seem such a lot now does it....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6667333.ece
I'd have more sympathy if we'd only been fighting there for a few months but it's been years and during that time HMG plainly hasn't planned ahead properly for any eventuality which would require more helicopters. While fatalities were low they could get away with their 'make do and mend' policy but now the numbers are rising fast they've been badly caught out.