One of my many cousins on the Irish side of the family is currently deployed to Afghanistan. He'd been trying to join the Royal Marines since 2003 but they always found some reason to reject him. Then he really dropped his standards and applied to join the Army. After they messed him about for a few years he finally passed out in 2008. Since then the Army have been trying very hard make sure he remains on UK deployment. This changed when they finally assigned him to Afghanistan and stepped up his deployment by a month. He's been out there for about a week.
I've been trying not to draw attention to this because obviously Afghanistan is difficult enough without being some sort of celebrity solider. However what appears to have happened is that Britain has informed all the other NATO allies of his presence individually. They have then told all of them to keep it a secret from each other. Therefore it has become something of the elephant in the room and in my judgement the keeping of the secret is doing more damage then letting the secret out. After all the worst thing that could happen is for him to be treated any better or worse then anyone else out there.
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