Training Risky wrote:
...I watched from a comfy CAOC as many members of the Taliban put-putted their way across the desert on motorbikes, minding their own business (sort of) only to watch them disappear in a cloud of black and white mist. Did I feel jumpy or sad about that? No. Chalk em up.
Quite so - do the crime, pay the time.
Little 'counselling' was given to those poor buggers who were exposed to 'the players' in Norn Irn, or suffered in the South Atlantic, or in GW1 or in all Tony Bliar's 'bring a bottle' wars..... It was often a case of "Oh, you're back, are you? Guess what, you're SDO this weekend" etc.
Now the problems are perhaps better understood, but is watching drone imagery really in the same league as facing direct hostile action?