PPRUNE
I understand that this thread is being read at the very highest levels of the MoD and Government. I also understand that there is some concern at the level of detail being discussed. We must continue to tread a fine line. Nobody is enjoying this. If Senior Officers/Defence Ministers accepted their responsibility to look after those on operations there would be no need to have this discourse in public. I have reason to believe that the campaign has achieved amazing success. Any feeling of elation is muted by the thought that we lost one of the finest crews in the process. I never want to have to do this again, but I say we continue until we get adequate protection for the guys/girls doing the stuff on the front line.