GlosMike
Correct. BTW, I didn’t mean to suggest that a choice has to be made between kitting out troops, Hercs or anyone else for that matter. The answer to the argument put forward by the media (and who knows who put them up to it as they clearly cannot think for themselves) that money spent on Hercs is money not spent on Body Armour and better protected Troop Carriers, is simply answered by reference to the numerous MoD and NAO/PAC reports over the past decades that state, quite categorically, that the MoD is wasting money. Not piddling amounts, but hundreds of millions every year. In fact, single projects waste this and nothing is done about it. If you keep telling them, and they keep doing it, then it goes far beyond incompetence. The waste is an absolute disgrace, but so is the failure to deal with those who condone it. Sack them.