"he and a small OMLT live and work with the ANA"

Translation please.

Re English, OMLT stands for Operational Mentor and Liaison Team. ANA stands for Afghan National Army.

I am so very proud of these lads. Stay safe and hope you are home soon.

2# ooh bully for Mr Watkinson and his army speak. it should be On My Last Tour and American Narcotic Army.
Taxi for the troops, can anyone respond.

We all have different views on this conflict and the right's and wrong's of being in Afghanistan, but I would like to say to all our Armed Service's out there and here at home to I and my family support you and are proud of you, we think of you all everyday, and say a BIG THANK YOU and I pray that you all return home safely and to those who have fallen in battle R.I.P..
Very best wishes for 2010.

i hope all the male and female soldiers from our region have a safe return.

lets not forget the 250 families who are without there loved ones this xmas and new year.

i just can't see the sense of this 8 yr war, but hope all the armed forces return safe and sound.

I wish all the troops well. And I wish they were home.

All the propaganda in the world will not convince me they are "engaged in a job worth doing", to me it's just a senseless waste of human life, on both sides of the conflict.

Happy new year to all the troops and may they come home safe very soon to their families

More understandable patriotic sympathy for the troops on the ground. More bodies driven through Wooton Bassett today (friendly fire, we're told, again), more families grieving here, no doubt more in Afghanistan too. More terrorism in the news, but not from Afghanistan or Iraq, from Yemen. Will we be invading Yemen next? And I thought Iran was next on the US's hit list. We went to war with Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, which never existed, we invaded Afghanistan to drive out Al-Qaeda, then we seemed to be fighting the Taliban for some reason, and now we are training the Afghan army to carry on the fight on our behalf, and no one can quite remember when the scope of the mission was changed. All this, we are told, makes terrorism less likely, or at least in some way it protects against some unspecified external threat to our British way of life, yet all the threats today seem to be as a *result* of our invading these countries. Perhaps we have done no more than succeed in driving the terrorists out of Afghanistan and into Yemen, or perhaps we have "radicalised" Yemenis by what they see as aggression against Afghanistan? It's a hopeless, pointless, potentially catastrophic war, and it's being fought in your name and mine. Over a hundred lives lost this year alone, to further a cause that gets more vague by the year. It's a waste of the lives of brave British soldiers and a waste of the nation's dwindling financial resources in the middle of a grave financial crisis. As far as the Muslim world is concerned, it will be a stain on the reputation of this country long after the worst excesses of the British Empire have been forgotten and long after all the generosity of the nation's Foreign Aid has been written off like so much bad debt. So everybody, myself not least, sends all good wishes to our troops in "war-torn Afghanistan" and wherever they are sent next. But I hope the goverment and the shadowy organisations that control our media do not mistake this ubiquit

The last bit ...

But I hope the goverment and the shadowy organisations that control our media do not mistake this ubiquitous good will towards the troops with any universal support for the war itself.