| another few facts
The Army sold off hundreds of recruiting offices in the UK a few years back - now we have combined service centres where if a school-leaver walks in has a 1 in 3 chance of ending up in the army because the desks are only manned in intervals between army/navy and raf.
It was done to save a few million quid. It means that someone say from Inverness or Devon has to travel a considerble distance to an office join the army.
Fact is that the army want less recruits whilst the reconfigure the army to have more hi-tech toys and less boots on the ground.
Interesting that the UK is following the American model for hi-tech - but in a turnaround both thr USA and Australia have late last year announced they are increasing their number of ground forces personnel - yes - boots on the grounds soldiers. Not logisticians and Eurofighters (which were designed for coldwar activity!) |