[SteveX]

I understand what you’re saying but even if my present senses of intuitions, awareness and sensory perceptions were 1,000 X stronger than they are now. I don't think I would like to put it to the test where explosive can be triggered remotely or by proximity. Better you than me chum.

I do take your stance that if the lads are using substandard equipment something should be done about it. What bothers me is the fact these "insurgents" are left to stroll around unhindered at night. Also, our lads take ground in the day then abandon it. Leaving the insurgents to reoccupy the land. Why keep prolonging things?

Take the ground and hold it. Set up night observation... not patrols. Just plain old observations… along known routes. I don't get what they are allowing to happen. Are they deliberately prolonging things because it's a back door into Iran? Are arms manufactures making a mint out it? Are politicians share portfolios bursting at the seems? Makes you wonder don't it.