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Originally Posted by haroldeye
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Sadly the tip of the iceberg! On a personal point, five members of my Regiment were accused of killing a civilian in Iraq, there was no body, no evidence and no funeral, however the Labour government, for political reasons decided to pursue the case, despite the misgivings of both the Crown Prosecution Service, and the Judge Advocates office.
The trial began and the judges looked deeply confused at all the ifs and maybes, the case finally fell apart when it was revealed that the dead man was one of the entourage of folk enjoying the free hospitality of the UK luxury hotel. The case was dismissed.
The five soldiers all left the Army as soon as they could, one of them had a great future ahead of him, by the age of twenty seven, he had been promoted to Sergeant and was about to become an instructor at the Army foundation college, to any Brits, especially fellow squaddies, they will know what a hell of a good soldier he had to be to make sergeant in the Parachute Regiment, and how incredibly good he must have been to do it by that age!
Five more casualties of the Blair Wars! Of which there were four!