WHEN British troops stormed into Iraq during the US-led campaign of 2003, nobody would have envisaged the drastic changes to kit that would follow.
Lampooned in the media for inadequacies in equipment in the build up to Op Telic 1, the MoD came in for scathing criticism. Reports of front-line troops with dodgy boots and inadequate rations were common.
One newspaper even quoted an American soldier, who branded his transatlantic cousins “the borrowers”.
Fast-forward five years, however, and the tables have been turned. With a formidable arsenal of firepower, robust protective kit and a fleet of new armoured vehicles, the British infantryman is now the envy of allies. Read It Here
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
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