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Re: National Service in the British Military
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Originally Posted by Chris
Charming and all that, but doesn’t answer my question.
No drill sergeant presently in the British Army signed up, or trained, for the task of beating recalcitrant young adults into *insert approved outcome here*. That is not what the army is for. Why should the army, or its drill sergeants, be expected to pick up a broken society’s crap?
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Quoted for truth...
When I joined up in the '70s (1970s, for any smerterse out there), the point of Basic Training was to find out if you could adapt to being part of the Military, work as part of a team, and to start to shape your potential - however, you could drop out at any point if you realised this life wasn't for you (the drop out rate in Basic was around 10-20% of the intake). You then went on to trade training, and in my course of 20, only 12 completed it.
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