6 Years and it’s over and done with for the Brits. As 5 Rifles and 20 Armoured lower there Colours, I
don’t think anyone wil
l be sad to leave.
It’s been a long road for everyone involved, a deadly one at that – it’s been terrifying, nail biting, exhilarating and sad. For most, this has been just something they watched on TV news, for others, it has been family, extreme loss and agony for those permanently injured. Indeed, some soldiers le
aving the forces this year will not have had any career that wasn’t in a full blown war. 
The right and wrongs of this conflict will be argued for many years, but will ultimately come down to historians to clarify the ‘yays and nays’ of it. But there have been many enduring images that’ll take a long time to fade.
Some records were set, many lives lost, and to the remaining US forces and Iraqi civilians – 
more may still be lost. Yet somehow, in the middle of it all the British Army completely reorganized itself and renamed most of it’s regiments – weird huh?
But for us, it’s over.
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