Hi all
Irish UN peacekeepers are deployed worldwide,especially on border monitoring duties in areas such as the Golan Heights.If you added them all up, it totals nearly a thousand, which is a big chunk of the PDF total manpower.It takes a lot of people at home to support the people overseas, given the amount of people out sick, on leave, on courses,on barrack duties,training,etc.Also, a deployment doesn't have to be big to learn useful information about the recipient nation or the local political environment.
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GttC