Comments by "John Allen" (@johnallen7807) on "British soldiers in Army's largest Europe exercise for a decade" video.

  1. That same British Army that successive defence cuts have reduced to 72000, smaller than it was at the time of Waterloo. Don't forget as well our "far sighted???" government closed all our bases in Germany now all have to deploy from the UK at vast expense!
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  2.  @derf9465  More like 7000, teeth to remfs are about 1 in 10, in the US it's even higher!
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  3.  @Anashadk  Agreed but even the best soldier cannot be in two places at once! The Ukraine are raising an Army of 1 million to defeat the Russians, think what would be needed against the Chinese!
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  4.  @Dryhten1801  By the time they made a decision any war would be over plus it takes two years to fully train an infantry soldier!
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  5.  @Dryhten1801  Ask any section commander! basic may be only 13 weeks but that only teaches them enough to be dangerous!
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  6.  @Dryhten1801  Agreed but that is what they need
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  7.  @Chubby_T0511  On paper I agree but I'm talking about a full functioning truly integrated infantry section where each man knows instinctively how to react as a member of the team in any combat situation. That only comes with loads of practice.
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