Oh, and...
Originally Posted by fallon
We currently have around 4,000 men and women deployed on 21 operations in 19 countries around the world.
Out of 233,540. That's hardly a stat that's going to make the public think it's money well spent - BŁ34.4 . I hope the great unwashed don't realise that all that money ends up with 1.7% deployed on ops. I hope they don't wonder what the rest are doing. Of course, if that number were greater they'd be shouting about why the UK is involved in so many ops, so there's no way to win that one.