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I caught a few minutes of the studio discussion last night, and I was not overly impressed by this Mr. Parry, who stood upon his dignity too much for my liking.
[To cut a lengthy story short.]
I well remember the run-up to the last/most recent Iraq war and the tales of equipment shortage:field-showers, boots etc. (figures of a personal spend of £2,000 by the families of those serving, as I recall), the debacle over chemical-suits and medicines right up to bullet-proof jackets. Not to mention the transport survivability problems that were more to do with Afghanistan.
It seemed more a case of war-on-the-cheap rather than any 'covenant' that was the main issue.
I have, until this point, taken it that H4H and other charities were set up not so much to do what the army (MOD) would not do, but rather to give every possible assistance to those personnel fortunate to make it through, but unfortunate enough to not make it through unscathed, to do right by our armed-forces-personnel.
I gather from the discussion last night that the appropriate prosthetic issue was (correctly) a matter for the Government (NHS?) and that the charity (H4H) was more correctly concerned with the immediate needs of serving personnel:These state-of-the-art centres are to provide a quick turn-around for affected service -men and -women, to get them back into 'theatre' ASAP.
It strikes me that the worries and concerns of those like the individual soldier that stood-up to be counted are exactly those that should have been met by H4H, instead he was patronised to the nth degree and all-but patted on the 'nap'. That a charity, with the beginnings I describe (if I have that right), are now set to spend the public's money on facilities to 'magic' personnel back to the front (for many years to come) and this is to be seen as right-and-proper, then the basic assistance and equipping of veterans has been driven back into the same situation that they faced in theatre. "Don't be a cry baby!" "Stiff upper lip, and all that!"
The only conclusion I can reach is that this charity is spending public money on MOD responsibilities and not on doing all that can be done for those who are set to carry the scars of war for life.
Well done, that man, for bringing these concerns to the public view.