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- Bill Presented: Armed Forces Personnel (6 Jul 2006)
Brooks Newmark: ...90 years later, the essentials remain the same. The armed services are still trusting and that human quality sometimes does them a disservice. I hope that we do not have a military catastrophe in Iraq or in Afghanistan to shake the foundation of that trust, as happened on the Somme. I have already said a little about recruitment, but the need for it would be minimised by focusing more on...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Infantry (14 Nov 2005)
Brooks Newmark: The soldiers serving in the 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment have just returned from a deployment in Iraq during which they distinguished themselves. Can the Minister assure me that, when the 2nd Battalion deploys to Afghanistan in the spring, they will not face the same "significant weaknesses" that the Public Accounts Committee identified in the monitoring systems for urgent...
