British troops lacked equipment in the gulf war

[marktigger]

the report by the national audit office on the gulf war has finlly made public how badly equiped the British armed forces were in the Gulf.
they lacked body armour,NBC kit ,Medical supplies and spare parts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3309611.stm

http://www.nao.gov.uk/pn/03-04/030460.htm

[cut]

tis nothing new, but what can you do?

[marktigger]

havin been on the log bit of the op i did my bit.

without desert kit, med counter measures, body armour or a weapon

[oldsoak]

I'm confused - have we not gone to war in the gulf before ? Surely there was a lessons learned report written after the last gulf war which might have been implemented or am I being naieve ? Or is it the case that its cheaper to work the blokes harder than provide them with new kit to make their lives easier ? B*llux to the bean counters.

[DeltaWhisky58]

Full tests of the British Goverment documents are available as follows:

2003 Defence White Paper

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/whitepaper2003/volume1.pdf
http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/whitepaper2003/volume2.pdf

Operations in Iraq.

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/opsiniraq.pdf

[marktigger]

unless its a war in europe on the central font against the russians all POR's lessons learnt are filed under 'B' for bin

[martinexsquaddie]

yeah tons of new dessie kit was flogged as soon as possible loads of nice gucci kit was purchased but did'nt get there till telic 3 or 4
my brother got a nice softie suit dessie uniform and smock and pro boots?
etc etc well pleased new camelback etc etc

[Chris1]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3309611.stm


And some of the 200,000 body armour sets issued since the 1999 Kosovo campaign appeared to have "disappeared".
I wonder where it went (www.silvermans.co.uk) :)

[marktigger]

probably into the G10 stores never to ne seen again.

Considering a certain brigade didn't bring theirs because it would come of thei baggage allowance.

[marktigger]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LMEGWLXOKPEHNQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2003/12/14/nwidow14.xml

This issue I hope will haunt this government out of office.