Crab,
You've dug yourself into a hole and are busy trying to lower in a JCB to make it deeper; in short you are being an arse.
There are things you don't know, because you don't need to know, but suffice to say several members of the Chinook Force literally have scars ( and sutured holes) that attest to the ferocity of the activity they were engaged in. The Junglies, Lynx, Apache and Merlin guys have similar experiences.
The occasional RPG or mortar in South Armagh does not compare with CASEVAC's when the LS looks like a scene from Star Wars, or a deliberate air assault into a heavily contested EF location.
Suggest you stop being such a dick, and commenting on something you don't understand. I have the greatest of respect for both the SAR Force and those that experienced NI close up at the height of the troubles, but you are coming across as uninformed, out of touch and a little bitter.
As a bottom line - I don't really think those who's hard won awards you feel the need to evaluate or validate really give a rats crap what you're opinion is anyway.
Last edited by minigundiplomat; 1st Apr 2015 at 17:19.