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Originally Posted by Circe
Something like this isn't that easy to quantify though. Sure, our soldiers basically sign their lives away when they join up but at the same time they expect the military to provide them with the resources and dedication required to ensure the maximum possiblity of their survival in warzones. If negligence from higher command, insufficient supplies or low quality equipment cause a soldier's death then I'm fully behind his family being able to demand compensation for it.
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Yeah, I can sympathise with the families of the soldiers killed, my brother was in the army for something like 13 years and was in the first Gulf War, he said he was glad it went through.
Still I was actually shocked it was passed. You can't put a price on human life but even so what do the troops and their families expect? These soldiers are in an active warzone and have been since they arrived, only the warzone became less predictable and more dangerous after Sadam fell and we claimed "victory." The MOD and the Government are complete and utter bastards, that much I can agree with, I'm just not so sure that "if I travelled in car A instead of B I would still be alive and dandy" is justifiable in such situations. It will set an interesting precedent for the future in any case.