By Nick Heath
Published: Monday 18 February 2008
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Name
Karen Challinor
Location
UK
Occupation
staring at clouds
Comment
700 units of which 690 will be sat on shelves in the quartermasters store as they are much too valuable for anything but training exercises and certainly much too valuable for field use, 8 will be on a bench being repaired, 1 will be propping a door open and 1 will actually be deployed in the field for use by some general to spot squaddies sneaking beer into camp
bit like the body armour and weapons our government assures us is available for the troops then, our government knowing more about these things than the actual soldiers in the field who are wondering where these things are
Experience from my 40+ years of infantry service t...
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