The deployment was marred by tragedy at the very beginning when the Chief of Police, LtCol Sayfullah Khan Rashidi, (who had previously served as Nawa District's Chief of Police during 3/3's deployment there) was killed along with two other Afghan National Police (ANP) by an IED on 6 November.
Despite nearly all receiving an orientation pre-deployment there were concerns expressed in this study by team members who did not feel their clinical background was well suited to their tasks, their role was not clearly defined pre deployment or that their actual role did not match their intended role.
For those fascinated by military hardware, and maps of deployments, there is much to enjoy, but the papers also give voice to those questioning UK involvement.
In addition to that, in real-life deployments, there are various scenarios (as discussed in the "Introduction" section) where a larger network is divided into relatively smaller number of nodes on a single channel where the links of the same channel can stay in the same contention neighborhood.
Leading into deployments, there are longer work hours as you prepare your equipment and engage with your fellow soldiers in battle drills that will be used overseas.
Amid the outcry over Kennedy's deployment, there was a renewed push among activists to unmask police infiltrators.
"Throughout my deployment there was almost constant pressure on me personally to find out anything I could that would discredit these campaigns".
However, Pakistan would certainly retaliate to open deployment (there was a fuss last year, when some of the missiles were moved, but not supposedly deployed, to a base not far from the border with Pakistan) by deploying the M-11 missiles it has received, but not yet unpacked, from China.
Before the deployment there was controversy about the government's non-resolution of repatriation entitlements and peacekeeper coverage under the Veterans' Entitlements Act, and it had not decided if the deployment would be considered operational service.
