AN SAS hero survived daring undercover operations during the Gulf War - only to be killed by a mate's tragic blunder on a peacetime exercise.

Visits to Korea and to Taiwan prefaced her participation in Operation Blue Star, one of the largest peacetime amphibious exercises in our history.

"Most of our major peacetime exercises suffer somewhat."

Yes, sir, hut it might as well be a peacetime exercise.

For this reason make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

In fact, some of the Army's biggest battles and peacetime exercises have been carried out in the deserts and areas contiguous to the plains of Punjab.

The war games, known as Operation Brass Tacks, are the largest and most controversial peacetime military exercise in South Asian since World War II.

Even so, Japanese tactical experts predicted that, against a battleship, the attacking force would be able to score hits at a rate of only one-third that observed during peacetime exercises.

September 1957: Intrepid departed the United States for NATO's Operation Strikeback, the largest peacetime naval exercise up to that time in history.

"Our flying skills are developed a lot better here than in a sea-level environment," he said, and the pilots operate without the restrictions common in purely peacetime exercises.