By STUART TOOTAL DSO
Colonel Stuart Tootal is the 1st senior commander to supply an account of the scuffling with in Afghanistan. A gritty portrayal of unforgiving clash, risk shut captures the essence of strive against, the hazards concerned and the aftermath.
3 PARA was once the 1st unit into Helmand in 2006. despatched on a peace undertaking, it grew to become engaged in a degree of strive against that has now not been skilled by means of the British military because the finish of the Korean struggle. Undermanned and struggling with apparatus shortages, three PARA fought doggedly to win the holiday in conflict.
Numerous gallantry have been presented, yet they weren't free of charge. On getting back from Afghanistan, Tootal fought to get right remedy for his wounded and feeling annoyed with the Government's remedy of its squaddies, he resigned from the military.
This is a dramatic, and sometimes relocating, perception into the management of squaddies and the pointy finish of conflict.
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Their disappointment with Iraq and concerns that Afghanistan might turn out to be another damp squib reflected a general frustration in the regiment, as it had seen relatively little action since the Falklands War in 1982. The regiment had not deployed during the first Gulf War and had not been involved in operations in Bosnia with the rest of the Army in the mid-199os. The balance had been addressed to some extent by 1 PARA's operations in Kosovo and Sierra Leone in 1999 and 2000 and 2 PARA's deployments to Macedonia in 2001 and Kabul in 2002.
I became increasingly conscious of the need to find more demanding pursuits if I was to stay in the Army. Commitments in the Balkans would no doubt have taken me out of Germany, but operations in places like Bosnia had settled into routine peace-keeping duties that were of little appeal. When I was afforded the opportunity to be seconded to command a rifle company in the Parachute Regiment as an alternative to returning to serve more time in Germany, I jumped at the chance. The Parachute Regiment's status as an elite unit allows it to select and train only the toughest of candidates.
This all seemed to support the assessment we had been given that the Taliban had withdrawn from the area. As the assault group flew towards the target area twenty minutes' flying time from Bastion, I knew that other members of my Battle Group would be driving towards supporting positions from the district centre in Now Zad. The Patrols Platoon and a platoon of Gurkhas would provide outer cordon depth positions around the general area of the target compound to provide additional security for the operation.