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'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
You can be rest assured that bits of kit designed to make life easier for the average crunchie don't usually make it out of the starting gate! (I always recall that the medics worked on the 3x casualty factor. 3x serious casualties for 1 fatality and 3x medics were required for every serious casualty).