Bob Ainsworth - Arsehole.

Apparently more helicopters wouldn't make soldiers invulnerable! Who knew?

Bob is apparently confused between reduced risk and no risk, and is using his immense experience in trade unions and being a half hearted marxist to tell those silly military types just how much better he knows.

What. A. Wanker.

Next up, our troops to be given water pistols as "real guns can't guarantee you kill the bad guys". Alas, piss-poor ministers can certainly be guaranteed to kill our own troops via incompetence, parsimony, paper-pushing and outright twattery.