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Originally Posted by jambutty
A nice safe posting well out of harm’s way at what General Dannatt called Forward Operating Base Dwyer. This base was allegedly 500 metres from the Taliban lines. Strange how the Taliban suddenly have clearly defined lines when in the past one of the excuses for not eradicating them was that they had no clearly defined positions. Guerrillas do not have clearly defined positions. That’s the nature of guerrilla warfare. Hit and run.
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He was at a busy FOP which encountered attacks and injury on a regular basis. Camp Bastian would have been safer. (not any that has been mentioned)
Also, if you think about it, not one british troop serving over there 'let slip' that Harry was there. If they disagreed with it, he wouldnt have lasted 2 minutes. I think that they had the final word as to where our support shoulf go