Posted on 03/02/2010 8:52:39 PM PST by SloopJohnB
Cpl Sarah Bryant, the first female soldier to be killed in Afghanistan, was sent on operations in a Snatch Land Rover after the Ministry of Defence ignored an SAS commanding officer’s warnings about the vehicle’s vulnerability, an inquest heard.
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They'll have to change the name of this vehicle if they are going to send women out in it. Sorry to see a soldier lost regardless of the reason.
Uh, sounds like someone in the command didn’t think much of her.
It also fails to mention that Cpl Bryant was a member of the Corps of Royal Military Police, my old Corps.
RIP young lady.
These Snatch mobiles (the British version of an El Camino) remind me of a ’62 International Harvester Scout, might as well wear soda-cans as body armor.
If this is the best they can do, send them home and let them play toy solider, herding their populace for the Islamists.
looks like it is roughly equal to an up-armoured Humvee.
it’s not an APC, and that’s the complaint.
We need to carpet bomb the whole damned place into fine dust! If we ever leave they’ll be back to their barbarian crap within a week!
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