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Originally Posted by jambutty
It’s all very well glibly advocating National Service as the panacea for youngsters’ wayward ways but think on this.
This country can’t afford to pay our regular troops a wage that is commensurate with their work so there is no chance of any form of National Service.
As for sending criminals, our armed forces do not want criminals in their midst. In any case one volunteer makes a better soldier, sailor or airman than ten pressed men.
Apart from that our forces need men and woman who are capable of handing complex and expensive machinery who can be relied upon to do their job without hesitation. The days of canon fodder on the front line are over.
Just remember this – you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.
As an employer, would you give a hardened criminal a job? No? Then don’t foist them on the cream of the fighting forces of the world.
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I have to agree with this completely. Why should dedicated soldiers be lumbered with people that dont really want to be there and will just cause problems?