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Old 14th Mar 2012, 13:06
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Not_a_boffin
 
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Interesting prog, but definitely a bit lightweight.

The point about 3Cdo vs 5Bde was that from long experience in Norway and elsewhere, 3Cdo Bde included the Cdo Logs Regt as a dedicated integral asset. They were already overstretched in SouthLant, particularly when asked to look after the two Para Bn augmenting 3Cdo, which is why the OC had a sense of humour failure when asked to support 5Bde as well.

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that as a direct result of this experience, what was 5 Airborne subsequently got some sort of integral Logs formation (not Compo-rats!) in the post Op lessons-learned flurry.

Funny that the prog didn't mention lack of AEW as a factor (or if it did, I missed it).
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