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Originally Posted by Gavin
Between a soldier who has put his life on his line, gets sent to ever hellhole in the world without a word of descent, and endures the horrors of war so that the vast majority of us don't have to, and a (hypothetical, of course) 20 year old slapper with 3 kids from 3 different dads, I know who I think deserves the support.
You're right though OB, its not just servicemen and women, the whole system needs overhauling, but servicemen & women are one group that does get shafted.
And if anyone thinks free housing on barracks is any good, see the news a few weeks ago, with the conditions they have to endure at UK barracks? On top of that we send them in with insufficient equipment to the degree that families have to fundraise to buy essential bits of kit. And that's on top of the equipment that the army should be providing that families can't do anything about, such as sufficiently armoured tanks. Keep treating servicemen and women like this, and we'll probably need a draft in 10-15 years if we there's a war.
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I was in Palace Barracks a few weeks ago,one lad (KOSB) had just been attatched to the Black Watch who are the RIC(Resident Infantry Coy) & had just got his room on the upper floor of one of the older blocks by the Chopper pad.His ceiling leaked & eventually fell in!Yet the Gov are spending millions building a nice shiny new headquarters for MI5 there!!