Failures to provide British frontline troops with the best possible kit must not be repeated, new Defence Secretary John Hutton said after his first visit to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hutton pledge over Army equipment
He said the Government must do "everything in our power" to prevent tragedies such as the deaths of 10 men in a Hercules aircraft in Iraq - blamed on a catalogue of "systemic failures" by a coroner this week.Read It Here
(RG) I really do hope he means what he says, my local MP does have an interest in the military that’s why he wrote his book Kitchener's Men about the King's Own Royal Lancaster’s in France during the Great War. The jury is out on this minister.
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Hutton promised the best equipment to include rifles. Radios are expensive and unreliable. The SA80 rifle is worth less then scrap. No aircraft carriers and no ground support aircraft
ReplyDeleteWorse of all; no-one in the MoD who has the slightest idea of soldiering.
Well done labour. Not are you habitual liars, but you an ensconced with greater liars Mandelson in the fore.