I Read with interest a letter in September's issue, "Head start for Op Herrick-bound soldiers", which expressed concerns over the choice of headdress worn by our battlespace role players.rnWhile the writer, Capt Stephen-Martin, is absolutely right in his observation that Pashtuns would normally be seen wearing a lungee, rather than a pakul, I cannot see why that should be relevant to the context we use to deliver hybrid foundation training at Batus [British Army Training Unit Suffield].rnExercise Prairie Thunder is set in Khalia province, Pokharistan - a fictional country and home to a fictional population of which the majority ethnic group is Berian.
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