Back in June, 3 Para wanted to do a para drop somewhere in the hot triangle area on the birthday of their unit. There was no real tactical reason except for looking good on the newspaper. Thankfully it was quickly explained to them that we would rather drop them with our CH-47 ourselves than being standby IRT and pick the injured post the drop. The actual numbers of injuries they were prepared to accept was quite unbelievable.
Another point, without trying to be patronising to much more experienced ppruners, some discussions on this thread and others are really releasing to much information about our/your TTPs. People on my station have had a one way listening type of converstion from the staish for releasing much less info about SOPs that some people here seem to be. Don't be fooled, Terry Taliban reads the threads and we are not helping ourselves by being to open about our operations.