And especially when representing not only your Regiment but your country overseas.
Precisely.
Rugby tour, infantry regiment and Fijian, remarkable restraint to be honest. Your lucky it wasn't a Ghurkha and he had spat in there general direction. You can't expect them to turn the aggression off and on with a flick of a switch and still do there jobs.
Quite so. Still, it can do no harm at all to reinforce those standards and practices which have served our military for so long and which is my basic point.
Re: detaining our boys. There should be an inter-forces agreement to have them returned (between NATO nations) and we handle all matters at home.