Former soldier...Joseph Davidson...is seeking £1.7m in damages from Aegis Defence Services. The High Court in London was told Mr Davidson had to train in full kit while carrying a colleague and equipment weighing 350lbs. His lawyers said the exercise was "obviously negligent". Mr Davidson...was working for Aegis Defence Services (BVI)...and Aegis Defence Services...as a bodyguard for US Army engineers in Basra when he was injured in...2007...Farah Mauladad, for the two companies, put to Mr Davidson that hazards such as suffering a back injury were part and parcel of the dangerous job he was contracted to carry out. Mr Davidson said he was "pressed to enrol" on the medical course during which he suffered his injury and added that the course seemed rushed.