Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
Afghanistan has its share of sandy/snowy environments as well as hot & high conditions. It is an unforgiving environment so not a bad idea to train for it.
Agreed - but I thought the Puma force were?
How can you justify running gold plated, hugely expensive overseas training packages (that were previously funded by operational budgets) rarely in support of ground troops when the rest of defence is being cut to smithereens...
A cadre ok, but the whole force? Every year?