600 UK soldiers to be deployed to Afghanistan to help Britons leave
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600 UK soldiers to be deployed to Afghanistan to help Britons leave
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When America, along with its allies, launched ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, few could have guessed it would be stepping into its longest war.
Yet if the legacy of this two-decade conflict will be long disputed, bleeding as it did both literally and metaphorically into the invasion of Iraq two years later, and a broader War on Terror, it would be wrong to forget the unity of that pre-invasion month in 2001.
For 9/11 shocked the world and left no room for equivocation.
Rescue workers sift through the wreckage of the World Trade Center, two days after the terrorist attack
Troops quarantine for two weeks before they are deployed there and self-isolate for two weeks on arrival.
News they may not be vaccinated first comes as British forces serve in countries that have had virus outbreaks and high rates of cases.
Former head of the British Army Lord Dannatt and chairman of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood said the Ministry of Defence has a duty of care to the troops they could deploy to Covid hotspots.
Soldiers must isolate in barracks before they leave the UK and a negative PCR test is required 92 hours prior to deployment.
The father of one of the soldiers said: “It is extremely worrying to my wife and myself to know that my son is going to a country where Covid-19 is completely out of control.