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Old 1st Aug 2004, 17:36
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Your comment about HSE concerns over "climbing the steps" hit a nerve...I just left an outfit that was involved in protecting a very sensitive nuclear facility....and continually degraded our abilities to perform the mission based upon HSE concerns.

Now I ask you...if you are sending armed officers into a situation where they are quite likely to kill or be killed in close combat with an armed hostile gunman or gunmen (oh, sorry....gun persons)...why can we not accept the fact some of the less than twinkle toed of the bunch might stub a toe or twist an ankle either in training or while performing the mission?

Am I missing something here? To quote a very well known US SpecOps commander...."We ain't making cornflakes here!"
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