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Should the Armed Forces stop recruitment at 16 ?
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 23 Apr 2013 12:19 |
The outdated practice of recruiting 16-year-olds into the Army is wasting up to £94m a year and should stop, two human rights groups have said. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 23 Apr 2013 12:28 |
Read the article earlier and got the impression that it was the cost of training them which some people see as a problem. |
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♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥ | Report | 23 Apr 2013 13:02 |
As school leaving age rules are raised this will be a possibility together with other work training or further education. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 23 Apr 2013 13:05 |
Soldiers today don't sign on as in days gone by, once their initial term think it's 2 or 3 years has expired they are on what's called open engagement (12 months each time) so can give notice at any time. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 23 Apr 2013 13:19 |
If its a waste of money to have 16 year olds in the Army and is "wasting up to £94m a year" and should stop then you could argue that the money spent on the Cadet forces is also wasted so do we get rid of Cadets also |
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BarneyKent | Report | 23 Apr 2013 13:23 |
No Way should it end !!!! Keep the age 16 entry. My Grandson went to Harrogate Army Training School when he was 16. It was the making of him. He then did six years in the Regular Army, came out and got a job with a Telecommunications firm. He is now has his own home and a family. Harrogate was the best thing that happened to him. |
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BarneyKent | Report | 23 Apr 2013 13:24 |
P.S. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 23 Apr 2013 13:49 |
Looking at some of the problems young people are facing these days, I think that anything which gives them opportunities and a purpose in life, is a good thing, and I think joining the armed forces offers them this. If they decide it is not the life for them, I don't think it is to difficult for them to leave. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 23 Apr 2013 14:20 |
Could this report be based on inaccurate information? |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 23 Apr 2013 14:40 |
PatinCyprus - that is an excellent contribution |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 23 Apr 2013 14:51 |
:-D |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 23 Apr 2013 14:57 |
OFITG, all recruits still have the opportunity to leave in the first part of training thinks it the around the 3 month period, training is in two parts the first is the BullSh*t part basic training housekeeping such as how to keep clean, wash and ironing kit and bulling boots plus the discipline through Drill with lessons on other basic soldiering skills because no matter what part of the Army your going for your still a soldier first |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 23 Apr 2013 15:17 |
Thanks Roy, I think the regulations on enlistment were changed in 2006 and again in 2008, and no doubt they have been tinkered with several times since then. |
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Ron2 | Report | 23 Apr 2013 22:58 |
I joined (Sappers) Boys Service January 1956 at age of 15 - much better than continuing to live in a mining village in Black Country and stayed for 16 years. Made many good friends and still in touch with a lot of them. It would be silly to end recruiting at age of 16. We young uns were regarded as future SNCOs/WOs of the Corps. 'Boys' later became "Junior Leaders" and they were known as "FREDS" = Future Royal Engineers Disasters". |
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Ron2 | Report | 23 Apr 2013 22:59 |
Staffy Knot - couldn't agree more |
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Barry_ | Report | 24 Apr 2013 01:14 |
I wonder if the article would have been written if there was no minimum age a soldier could be sent to war? No money wasted then on (un)soldiers who could be sent regardless their young age. Is this another ploy to bring UK ‘into line’ with EU once more - or really to save money? |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 24 Apr 2013 07:20 |
Barry, this comment you made sums up my view:- |
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Dermot | Report | 24 Apr 2013 07:53 |
Apparently, more American soldiers in Afghanistan died from suicide than in combat. And the war continues. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 24 Apr 2013 08:12 |
Dermot, I fail to see the relevance of American soldiers committing suicide and this thread, |
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Dermot | Report | 24 Apr 2013 09:54 |
Hungerford in 1987. |