Strikes me that the Brit forces are re-visiting a lot of places that were first visited way back in the thirties - I would imagine that life in these lands was far tougher in those days.
In the late thirties your government got you into a lot bigger ****fight than you are in now with many more casualties.
Governments since forever have been despatching the troops forth to do their bidding - nothing will change in the furure.
I think a lot of you approached service life with rose-coloured glasses (maybe the glasses were given to you by the recruiters!) and didn't really think of the possible consequences of joining up.
To quote-
"If you can't take a joke you should not have joined" and "(Service) life wasn't meant to be easy".
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