More British soldiers for London Olympics than in Afghanistan.

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Making good use of our soldiers

Was talking to someone I know who is an officer in the army
She said that its not the fact they are using the army it's more the fact that it is so lae in the day.....the army would be fine if they had planned it yrs ago!
O and apparently it's the young newly trained people who ideally should e on field training

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Reply 22

hannah60000

Original post by TheHansa

Good good. British soliders belong in british defending the british olympics.

*London Olympics

Reply 23

JJames

Original post by Azaro

yawn. do they really believe this will prevent certain individuals from a certain religion traveling to london with a bimb in their rucksack?

I would be a bit more worried if they had a bomb instead :wink:

Reply 24

Whitechapel

Original post by HomoSapiensSap

There are around 9,000 British soldiers currently in Afghanistan. We have recently heard that there will now be around 17,500 soldiers stationed in London (due to the G4S shambles) - and this figure was set to rise to more than 20,000 as Lord Coe mentioned reserves and was still deliberating whether 17,500 is still enough.

Does anybody else find it funny (if not strange) that we now have more troops for the Olympics than there are in Afghanistan (where we're currently at war)?

They shouldn't be in Afghanistan!

Reply 25

Drewski

Original post by superpig22

Then your friend was giving you duff info, perhaps deliberately, perhaps because she didn't know better.
There is always a contingency plan. It's what the MoD runs on. And no, the bigger concern/aggrievance is that they're using members of the Armed Forces who've either just returned from Afghanistan and should be on R&R, servicemen who are about to go to Afghanistan and should be on work up or people who've just been given their redundancy notices and won't be best motivated to give up their free time for nothing.

Reply 26

Hopple

Good, I'd rather they were here then being blown up for no good reason over there.

Reply 27

Boom.Squish

It does make sense I guess.

I feel a bit like I'm in a war zone though! They're installing missiles a few minutes away from me and I see soldiers and G4S people walking around every time I go out. Feels so strange.

Reply 28

Phantom Lord

Nothing wrong with that.

Reply 29

superpig22

Original post by Drewski

Well her section is something to do with hr and put of the blue was asked to name however many it was of a certain rank (low down, new.y trained) within a few days!

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Reply 30

Llamageddon

It's a lot easier and cheaper to have soldiers performing duties in the UK than it is in Afghanistan.

Reply 31

oz40

Good. I don't even know what our soldiers are doing in Afghanistan.

They'll do a better job at actually protecting the country and citizens by being at London.

Reply 32

Bronze Thistle

Is anyone else not disgusted that we have to have all these soldiers to protect us from Muslims in Britain ?

Reply 33

Dhaal_Chawal

Original post by Azaro

yawn. do they really believe this will prevent certain individuals from a certain religion traveling to london with a bimb in their rucksack?

Learn to spell before making a stupid post.

Reply 34

jumpingjesusholycow

I don't really see what the problem is. For once, we have our troops majoritively protecting our own citizens on our own land, ensuring our safety as opposed to doing god knows what in a foreign country with no visible benefit to our national security.

Reply 35

Azaro

Original post by Dhaal_Chawal

Learn to spell before making a stupid post.

bomb

Reply 36

kingsholmmad

Original post by Boom.Squish

Our trouble is that we're spoiled with what a safe, sheltered society we have here. There are a lot of countries around the world where the current militarised situation in London would be regarded as an eerily quiet reduction in hostilities.

Original post by Bronze Thistle

Is anyone else not disgusted that we have to have all these soldiers to protect us from Muslims in Britain ?

Yes. I'm not disgusted because 1) it is normal practice for an event of this size and 2) they're not protecting us from Muslims, they're protecting us from terrorists. There's a difference.

Reply 37

ZahraAnsari

you do know muslims are not the only terrorists! you made a really broad statement that is not really nice.

A terrorist can be any one from any faith (:

Reply 38

TheHansa

This is excellent news anyway troops are being brought it because the contractors have failed to fulfill their obligations. Police and army personnel will do a much better job of protecting these events than teenagers given a crash course in looking into people's bags and patting them down.