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Old 24th Mar 2003, 02:35
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G.Khan
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Well Jacko The answer is pretty simple then isn't it?, get rid of the TV camera crews at the front line.

Your idea that the troops should in any way curb their natural reactions so as to comply with some stupid PC protocol for TV is quite beyond reason. When under fire most of the troops won't even know there is a camera in attendance.

After four of five days crawling around the desert, living in foxholes and, when extremely lucky, the back of or shelter of a truck, wearing the same clothes, eating compo rations, going without a proper wash and being shot at whilst watching one's comrades die/get wounded tends to concentrate one's mind on the foe and where they are shooting from, the average soldier couldn't give a toss about the location of the TV camera and nor should he.