Dummies 'guard' Iraq garrison

[Original Jack]

British troops are manning watchtowers with dummies at the Army's main garrison in southern Iraq, it was disclosed last night.

They have used mannequins to take the place of real soldiers during darkness in up to eight of the 16 watchtowers at the Shaibah Logistics Base, west of Basra.

The Grenadier Guards came up with the tactic after being sent out for a six-month tour 47 men short, The Sun reported.


Full story here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/08/ntroops08.xml

[XemaSab]

1. Hey, way to support the troops!

:grr:

Oh, you mean REAL dummies. :hide:

[saigon68]

10. Lots of support

[Journeyman]

2. Why not? They were lead to war by a couple of dummies. . .

might as well spend the tour with 'em, too.

[eleny]

3. If W asks for 20K more mannequins - I'll go for it

[Thor_MN]

5. The bad news: Halliburton has them for sale at $250K per.

The good news: Dummies that have been shot don't need flag drapped coffins

[oblivious]

7. So that's where the surge is coming from.

[Robbien]

4. A dummy is better than the tower being left empty I guess

Everything about the Iraq invasion is FUBAR.

[daleo]

6. "Garrison Duty for Dummies"

The latest in the series.

[oblivious]

8. Ha! I can say it with authority: "British soldiers are nothing but dummies."

[Nihil]

9. Yep ...

... I was going to say that they've been doing this for years ... :-)

Somewhat reminiscent of "Beau Geste" isn't it?