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AFGHANISTAN IN THE UK - RIGHT NOW ON VBS

In the third episode airing today you’ll watch elite British unit 2 Para trying to deal with simulated IED blasts (complete with gory legless casualties hired from a company called Amputees in Action) in a multi million dollar make-believe Afghanistan...

Hey Canada, if you haven't tuned into our new video series Afghanistan in the UK, head over to VBS.TV and check it out. In the third episode airing today you'll watch elite British unit 2 Para trying to deal with simulated IED blasts (complete with gory legless casualties hired from a company called Amputees in Action) in a multi million dollar make-believe Afghanistan village tucked away in the quiet English countryside. Yeah, yeah, we know; the Canadian presence in Kandahar was a military clusterfuck and a failed attempt by our conservative government to look like badasses. And like a lot of you, we're pretty stoked on the 2012 pullout deadline (if that actually happens), but we can't help but wonder: if we had the same kind of fancy high-falutin' practical field training these Brits seem to be getting, would we still have had our asses handed to us by the Taliban? Just sayin'.