Lance Sgt Dan Collins

Fortunately I've never had to go to war so cannot truely understand the horror of it, I can imagine it, that's not the same thing though. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, if you've never been there you don't really know what it's like and as such can't really appreciate the horrors the servicemen/women have to live with in their heads. Small wonder sometimes it becomes too much for an individual to bear.

RIP to a brave young man.

I have no idea why they are fighting in Afganistan or Iraq apart from the ego of poodle Blair and the concept of throwing good money after bad (as in, because a load of chaps have died out there then it makes sense to continue with the suffering). I just don't get it. A pointless waste of life in my opinion and about time we brought the boys home.

How very sad...

RIP - Army Dan.

An all too common problem. Andy McNab has been doing a lot of work trying to publicise the problems such as PTSD faced by service personnel when they leave the forces (some pretty harrowing accounts of his old mates in the book Seven Troop). There should be strong mental health support services for them which they should be encouraged to use. From what I've read things are improving but from a very low base where seeking treatment was seen as a weakness and people where shipped off to some virtually secret clinic in the middle of nowhere.

Terrible waste of a brave mans life, my sympathies to the family.

I can't see why we are there at all, it's a no win situation. Once we pull out the Taliban will take over again and everything will go back to square one.
I keep thinking of one word, Gandamack. A modern army (for the day) cut to pieces by Afghan tribesmen and in more recent times the Soviet war machine worn down into submission and retreat by the same men from the hills.
We need to pull out now, engage with all parties in the country( as we did in NI ) and come to an acceptable solution for all the Afghan people. Perhaps then we will be able to control terrorism more effectively than waste time fighting a war we cannot win.