but plenty of the British Territorial Army out there doesn't:
1,000 Territorial Army soldiers failed gun testhttp://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=574859Nearly 1,000 Territorial Army soldiers were sent to fight in Iraq despite failing their weapons test, a court martial heard today.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=924184And British equipment has been just as lacking as American in Iraq:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1359712003The admission, in the long-awaited defence white paper, coincided with the publication of a damning report on the handling of the war in Iraq and an accusation from the chairman of an influential Commons committee that British troops in Iraq had been "shamefully let down" by the government.
The report, published by the National Audit Office (NAO), described the campaign in Iraq as a significant military success but lambasted the government for sending troops into combat without adequate equipment, including weapons, ammunition, body armour and medical supplies.
The findings were described by Edward Leigh, the chairman of the Commons public accounts committee, as an "outrage".
"We expect the men and women of the armed forces to fight and maybe die for us. So it is an outrage that they could not expect all of the proper equipment, protection and even clothing to do the job we ask of them. They were shamefully let down," he said.