It certainly is a mess, but I reckon it was a genuine "forget" to pick the bags up. It's just impossible to have been left deliberately in that way, unless the British Army has severely changed. There was probably someone from the QMs supposed to pick it up after the exercise in the Land Rover, and he forgot or is a slacker (of which there are many) and didn't bother. He might be someone who's really desperate to get out the army and has no interest at all and was trusted to pick the rubbish up, but didn't and the NCOs were unaware of it.
Then, during the night, foxes or badgers ripped into the bags and took the best bists, leaving the biscuits brown, as somebody else said
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You have to allow for simple mistakes. Admittedly, maps etc shouldn't have been left lying around, but they may have been finished with after the exercise and have had no further use.
It is very slack and we never left anything after our exercises, but errors do happen. I don't think it was dleiberate. it's far more annoying to see dumped cars and obviously dumped rubbish, than a bag of squaddie litter left behind in error.
It's not like there's been a blue on blue, it's a mess, but that's all it is.
It's better to make mistakes on exercise than in real situations. People have NDs,people drop their rifles into rivers, etc., etc. That's what training is for.
I'm just putting these points forwards so that all squaddies are not "tarred with the same brush".
The important thing is to be disciplined when operational.
The British Army is the best Army in the world.