Six UK soldiers believed killed in Afghan explosion

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Six British soldiers were missing and believed to have been killed after their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosion while they were on patrol in the Helmand area of southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.

If the soldiers are dead, the incident will be the biggest single loss of life for British troops in Afghanistan since 2006 and take the overall death tally for British forces there to 404 since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/uk-afghanistan-britain-idUKTRE8260FX20120307

[Skittles]

2. and they died...for....what exactly?

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,

And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier ~of~ the Queen!

--Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier