Timex:
Your "Walk a mile" rationalisation is spurious. It's a pragmatic justification for having 'our boys' act like their boys 'cos we're the good guys.
I refuse to walk a mile in the shoes of :
Ossy Bin Liner
Gerry Adams
Hammas
July 7th 'heroes'.
What they do is cowardly and wrong.
What the Basra boys did is too.
As an aside thousands and thousands more Iraqi innnocents have had to scrape up and bury their own than in the NI parallel you propose.
CG
I am aware of many crewmen who went out of BBK and XMG on patrol- it was reasonably common. I didn't.