29 August, 2006

From an ex soldier in Afghanistan

The link above says almost everything that I feel about this deployment and the government's attitude to it.

Posted by James Cleverly at Tuesday, August 29, 2006
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1 comments:

you-know-who said...

I've just returned from several days with the military, so I've got loads of gossip.

1.
The military is no longer training for the full spectrum of operations it is only training for Iraq & the 'stan. Beware if we need to do anything else (Like northern ireleand, or disaster reliefe or fire strikes or foot & mouth)
2. About 25% of the budget for the wars (IZ & 'stan) is coming out of the normal military budget (i.e. the money they thought they'd need to run equip & train an army in peacetime). Gordon B is failing the boys by 25%.

3.
We originally only intended (and planned/budgeted for) a deployment to Kandaha, Camp bastion plus one other location. We now find that we are having to man at least 10 "platoon houses" as well & surprise-surprise these are under daily attack. The boys are literaly catching 40 winks in full equipment in sandbagged trenches.

31/8/06 22:55

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