There's a very interesting article in the sunday times today written by John Barry who was the commanding officer of the Mountain & Artic Warfare unit of 3 commando.. .. .Its called 'Britians elite commandos lack the right altitude to take on Al-Qaeda'. .. .Unfortunatly I cannot find a link to post it here but in it he talks about how only 50 out of 1700 troops have ever been up to 10,000 ft befor. How the unit has not been in combat since the falklands, the lack of equipment that would be needed & most importantly how only a very tiny percentage of them have ever been to the alps for MW training.. .. .I must admit when I saw a prior post saying they spend 3 months every year in Norweign its sounded like so much s$%t but I kept quite as i didnt have any other information, but I mean do their wives and girlfriends get locked up in a nunnery whilist their away <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> . .. .They may be described as the best in the world in the press but its obvious to most people that we simply cannot do the job that the've been asigned todo.