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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
I am sure that I read/heard today that the Coroner stated that the lad bled to death. Therefore an internal bleed - an available helicopter may have got him to a Med Centre in time, but many serving Officers ahve stated recently that we do not have enough helicopters there?????????????
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really disapointed to hear this repeated ill informed comments.
Large troop carrying helicopters have a high risk of surface to air missile attack and are not designed for the front line.
Other helicopters and their crews are back here for a rest and for maintenance.
All front line ops are dangerous and having an abundance of flying machines over the battlefield is suicide and the type of assessment that a Sun journalist would come up with.
As operations have progressed so the tactics of the insurgents and foreign fighters has changed meaning we have to change and counter it by bringing new equipment on line. This happens in all wars. Take The variance and changes in IEDs and the armour plating of vehicles for instance.
Finally last month the government and the military were criticised for unneccessary and over the top spending on military equipment.
It Is quite frankly ridiculous to suggest a British Government is shortchanging our troops deliberatly. I remember when mount ? was stormed in the Falklands and our Paras and SAS were I'll equipped and when the ships in Falklands sound did not receive adequate cover leading to the sinking of the Coventry? And Sheffield? IIRC and the unneccessary loss of many British Troops. Around 268 British troops died in the Falklands.