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Originally Posted by Jackonicko

When we're losing core capabilities that we need every single time we go on ops, then anything that diverts money away from what's NEEDED to pay for something that merely 'might be useful' is a bloody disgrace.

One can have the sharpest and shiniest kit on the planet but if the bloke/blokess driving it isn't inspired to fight, it may as well be a PKM in the back of a Landcruiser. The World constantly seeing that your peers are consistently the best in the World is such an inspiration. Tangible links with the courage and victories of your Service "ancestors" are another. You can put a cost to these alleged fripperies but not a value; and when the link's been broken it will never be reforged. Granted, the memory of these things may last a generation or so and still be inspirational but after that, what?

What used to inspire your fighting spirit when you were In? Surely not the pure and noble cause of preservation or creation of World freedom and democracy?