Poland's 1,200 troops assigned to NATO forces in Afghanistan will not achieve full combat readiness for several weeks due to stolen vehicle keys, its Defence Ministry says.
"We had been told a 10 per cent theft rate was likely in convoys brought in from Pakistan, but we had not expected the spare car keys to go missing," Defence Ministry spokesman Jaroslaw Rybak told news channel TVN24.
"We shall have to send away for spares, so it may take from several days to several weeks for our contingent to become combat ready."
Media reports say Polish troops taking part in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan have been assigned to patrol the mountainous border area with Pakistan to search for Taliban guerrilla activity.
The military vehicles
2 comments:
More excuses for not getting on with the job?
Why do you think the British army employs Scousers and Manchunians ? to hot-wire their tanks of course !
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