Commandos get ready to face taliban ; Southern Afghanistan has been picked up and dropped on to Salisbury Plain.

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) | July 30, 2008 | Copyright

Southern Afghanistan has been picked up and dropped on to Salisbury Plain.

On the ground, troops carrying weapons and wearing desert camouflage gear tactically patrol the grassland. In the air, Chinook helicopters fly overhead while jets sweep across the plains monitoring the work below them.

Clearly the troops are in England - on Mission Rehearsal Exercise (MRX) - and not Afghanistan, but the routines and the procedures are all exactly the same.

It is getting the basic drills correct in a tri-service exercise of this scale which makes operating in the real theatre of war so much more ...

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