Readers respond to the US president’s widely condemned comment that Nato allied troops stayed off the frontline in Afghanistan
In response to your article (Trump claims Nato troops ‘stayed a little off the frontlines’ in Afghanistan, 22 January), I write this letter to the people of the United Kingdom.
I served 20 years in the US Navy and had many interactions with Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel. They might say they suffered us, but the camaraderie was real. (I remember one deployment in Qatar, during which the Americans had T-shirts that read “Operation: Enduring Freedom”, while the British, not to be outdone, had some T-shirts made to read “Operation: Enduring Americans”. We all got a kick out of that.)
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