So much history there. We PL'd in the backyard of a guys house in Suffolk. Shut down and the guy came out. Old old guy in full old british guy wear. I walk up to him apologizing for landing in his back yard and he was grinning from ear to ear. Sat and talked with him while waiting for maintenance to show up. His dad was a milkman who wasn't medically cleared. He would talk about how his dad gave him milk to bring to the boys before they would go fly in the early mornings.
They rescinded it a few days later after it made the public 🙂
I go to a giant VA center for my care. The average age is about 65 years old. I can just imagine some poor worker taking down that photo in front of a few of them and explaining why.
The 'exercises' are an evaluation of processes and paperwork that NEVER get executed when actual real world deployments are executed. NEVER. It's just a giant circle jerk of outside agencies who hinder the process.
Thinking the same. Dude. Doused himself in fluid, then took quite a few attempts to get his lighter to work, then engulfed in flames. After full flamage, he was still yelling coherently in between screams.
Having spent a good chunk of my career in Afghanistan, pulling those poor bastards off the battlefield.....watching this and then knowing how it all ultimately ended is infuriating beyond comprehension.