"We should never have allowed our troops to go into dangerous training camps in NSW", the Opposition leader KRudd said today as he signalled an end to deploying our troops domestically if Labor is elected..
This was in response to the following breaking news:-
"Grenade blast injures soldiers during training
Posted 38 minutes ago (ABC Online)
* Map: Singleton 2330
Two soldiers have been injured during a grenade training activity at the Army's School of Infantry in Singleton, north of Sydney.
The soldiers received minor injuries after an F1 hand grenade detonated.
They received immediate medical treatment and both are expected to make a full recovery.
Grenade training has been suspended as a precautionary measure pending an investigation into the accident.
The same type of hand grenade was suspended from use in training exercises in September when a defence contractor lost his right hand and suffered leg injuries after an explosion at the experiment base in Graytown, near Bendigo".
rudd will pull troops out of sydney...
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