Well said Flip.
Safety of Herc crews vis a vis foam was not taken into account when the plan was drawn up for the Afg deployment. Even though it was well known that a lack of foam was a major factor in the deaths of 10 men. The MoD seems to think that a skittish statement about agreeing to fit foam to some frames at some time in the future will placate us.
NO CHANCE.
We will have to apply pressure again. We want assurances as to how many frames and the time scale. We want to know what is causing slippage. We could see that this deployment was poorly planned from the very beginning. Now there will be pressure to overstretch from the very people who endorsed the plan.