Lee Enfield at War

[Bruce_in_Oz]

I remember talking to a Brit Army Signals Captain who was "attached" to us from the British Army in Germany back in the early 1980s.

He maintained that there was an "official scale" of "service" deaths and injuries for major exercises. In addition, there were "insurance assessors" on the ground as well. When the Divisional Commander ordered, "Turn left NOW!", and an armoured Brigade "rearranged" Herr Schmidt's farm, the "cheque-book warriors" turned up soon afterwards to "ease the pain".

Different times: in those days, whilst on those exercises, you could see off to the east, your potential, operational enemy watching the whole thing through very large optics.

Train hard, fight easy.