Ooh-Ah

They are Scottish troops cos they are who is there....or do you imagine that this 'War' (perhaps unlike other wars you may vaguely have heard of....) was going to be one in which people were going to get killed, & thus Scottish & Welsh troops are sent instead of English ones?

Brucie,

Their eyes were blacked out cos thats standard practice with anyones Special Forces, I'd guess.... the ones that WERENT blacked out were the fatality, & Andy McNab, the Author.....