I spend a fair bit of my computer time cruising (in the nicer sense of that word!) on American sites that relate to military matters. One of the very clear features was the much higher support their troops got when compared to our British soldiers, airmen etc.
We have had problems with medical facilities for our guys. These were shrugged aside by the politicians, very few had even bothered themselves to visit the injured and all hid behind the facade that the NHS was wonderful and this included soldiers. So, it came as a bit of a revelation to discover what was going on at the main veterans facility at Walter Reed. What was comforting was the fast and draconian reforms that came from the revelations. This has opened a bit of a floodgate as to what is happening elsewhere.
