Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
I think it's absolutely unbelieveable that some people are slagging off the special forces for undertaking realistic training in realistic conditions. Their mandate covers all sorts of scenarios the best of us can hardly imagine, but clearly some here aren't anywhere near that imaginative.
The ability to insert or extract a team in any and all weather (or smoke and dust) is clearly of extreme interest to such people and I for one am glad they are doing it and not constrained by snowflakes and silly post-industrial age H & S nonsense.
Anyone who imagines this sort of thing is done unthinkingly and ad-hoc without briefing or preparation is living in a vacuum. Maybe one day they'll be the ones locked in a box and need someone with these skills to get them out ad-hoc and without much briefing and preparation, and would then be damn glad the prep and practice had been done elsewhere...