Richard North has picked up on yet another sneaky bit of censorship or as he more aptly describes it lies and deceit. It appears that the RAF Regiment Senior Aircraftman Marcin Wojtak who was killed on Thursday 1st October whilst “commanding his vehicle” was actually in a Vector Armoured vehicle. As Richard says:
These “killer machines” were supposed to have been withdrawn. We all thought they had been. In fact, we had an announcement in May that the Vector was to be withdrawn from operations in Afghanistan.
Obviously they haven’t been withdrawn and despite the assurances of John Hutton, the then defence minister, they have continued in use, albeit in what was supposed to “safe” regions. When will the Military and MOD learn there are no safe area in this type of War, I thought it was bad enough to learn that the Taliban had managed to plant an IED near Bastion but to learn the patrol was using what can only be described as an “inadequate” vehicle is beyond belief.
This waste of young lives is truly stupid and defies the thought that we have smart people running the war in Afghanistan. If they can’t do better than this then we should not be fighting this type of war.
Read more on this at Defence of the Realm