News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
Three Para had had many like it during the battle group's first tour of duty in Afghanistan but none quite so bad: a patrol trapped in a mine-strewn gully combined with Taliban mortar attacks against my men in Musa Qaleh and Sangin had left three...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
The first commanding officer to take troops into Helmand has criticised the Ministry of Defence for being "surprisingly unprepared" to deal with the mental trauma suffered by veterans of Afghanistan. Writing in The Independent today, Colonel Stuart...