Army shambles; Yourview.ANOTHER young soldier lost his life in Afghanistan on Tuesday as a roadside bomb exploded, blowing his inadequately protected "armoured" truck to bits. Once again a life is lost because of the lax LAX - LAnguage eXample. A toy language used to illustrate compiler design. ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984]. attitude of the Ministry of Defence and the pen-pushers in Whitehall. It has been reported that nine hi-tech and heavily armoured Ridgeback trucks have been sent to Afghanistan, but so far have only managed to get to Dubai, where they are lying idle on an airport runway runway: see airport. as the RAF do not have the time or spare planes to be able to fly them to their ultimate destination. What a shambles. T.B., Stirlingshire |
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