[Sirius]

Originally Posted by punky

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.

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