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All smiles from 1 Royal Welsh as the first few days go well on the ground - Operation Moshtarak via Helmand Blog

This is not directed at regular commenters

This is not the blog to express negative doom mongering views about Her Majesty's Armed Forces especially in relation to current issues. I've no doubt there are plenty of other blogs around where that sort of "England is washed up" crap is very welcome in no uncertain terms but it is most assuredly not welcome here. Especially not from people I don't even know and who haven't showed up here previously to give us a thumbs up over PRESENT operations and consequently whose views I might respect. 

Our men and women were out there in Iraq and are out there presently fighting a hellish war in Afghanistan.  

I would happily tell a lefty Brit to take a hike if the best he or she can come up with is a shallow view of America's alleged "defeats" in operations overseas or even shallower opinion on 9/11 and home defense. I've battled with many such people on UK blogs who love linking to stats and figures. So I don't want my posts seized on to be used for similar kinds of trite observations about the UK. 

The situation in the Falklands is vastly different to what it was, with a permanent garrison and permanent heavy weight patrol reducing the need for any Taskforce type panic mission. 

I'm deeply proud of Her Majesty's Armed Forces. We've stepped up to the plate with and without allied support in the past, and we've stepped up the plate to assist our allies when noone else could be bothered, even under a crummy Labour government. We will do so again whenever and wherever we are needed. And we will do so successfully and proudly.  As always. 

Comments

[Daniel]

I'm an American vet from a while back, but I don't think things have changed much. The only soldiers I would have voluntarily welcomed into the foxhole next to me were Brits. That was a universally held point of view back then, and I suspect it still is today.

I was pounding ground in 82 when the whole Falklands thing happened, and I do remember that the biggest goof seemed to be to have not taken the Argentinians seriously and defended the islands in the first place. I'm glad to see that you aren't making that same mistake, and hopefully that will keep your soldiers from having to do anything more than be there.