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Why didn't they have minesweepers?


Proper, maybe they didn't have the tech. Otherwise a good gorey-glory drama.
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I read a story many months ago about some of our guys having had to buy their own boots. Shame on MoD.
I have to say have been on British bases and US bases overseas many years ago and the difference in standards was stark. Like the difference between a 3 star hotel and a 5 star. The Americans had, well, everything!

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The MoD are notoriously incompetent, it's easier to spend a billion dollars on 80 helicopters that don't work when it gets 'a little windy' than it is to ensure your troops have something to wipe their arses with.

I can't fathom how they get away with it, if a party aimed to protect our troops abroad better then they would have my vote, even if it was UKIP or the Greens.



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Did'nt really have that kind of tech till later on in Afgan. True about the boots, if you want a decent set you need to fork out a good £100 or you got to put up with some of the goping sets they give you

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Not tru about the boots during the time this was set. I was in Afghanistan in 2006 and the boots I was issued were among the best the Army ever issued me.



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Well the answer to that is simple, minesweepers are warships and I don't know if you caught this but there was no sea there.

If you mean mine detectors they would not have taken that much kit for a short yomp like that. Mine detectors are usually deployed by engineers looking to clear a large area.

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Im sure if they had them they would have nipped back up the hill to get them once the mines started going off .

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That is a good question. In the book Dead Men Risen it was written the the US offered to provide GPR ( ground penetrating radar ) and training to use it for the UK forces in Helmand at the time when low metal content IEDs were becoming prevalent but for some reason the UK said "no thank you".

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