Quote Originally Posted by King Henry V
The Household Cavalry is a tank regiment and has served in recent theatres of conflict, as well as trotting up and down horse guards.
Some chap at another forum reckoned they were a notch below regular units, on those occasions when they were in the field together. He felt they spent too much time in Blighty, and not enough time seeing real action, and that extra time in the field would do them good.

Quote Originally Posted by King Henry V
Most major militaries have parachute regiments, and airborne forces were used to secure airfields and oilwells in Iraq and Afghanistan. To dispense of such vitally important units is complete idiocy, just typical of this government.
Aren't they meant to be inserted by helicopter?