Guess the Army needs to decide what's important - winning the war(s) in Iraq and Afghanistan or training for a role that might be discribed as 'discretionary' given the political appetite for risk necessary to authorise an operational airborne assault.
On the other hand, people like Simon Barry could stop whinging about an RAF AT fleet that is being worked into the ground and take a look at the state of the Army's currency for high-intensity warfighting - not enough paras is very much like not enough armoured infantry units etc. Perhaps he should ring GOC MND(SE) and ask whether he wants C130s supporting PTS or working in Basrah........think I can guess the answer.
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