The British army is having trouble recruiting new soldiers. This news comes despite the army getting rid of some 20.000 existing soldiers, why recruit new soldiers when your sacking so many? The answer is because the army wants part time "reserve" soldiers rather than have to pay full time soldiers (the cheap answer as usual) But the problem is it's having a hard time recruiting reserve soldiers.
Theres a few reasons for this, one is that people who join the reserve do so mostly for extra money and a bit of fun soldiering...... but they mostly have full time jobs as well. And while the employers don't mind them being part time soldiers (missing some weekends and 2 weeks a year) they don't want them missing for 6 months at a time, this puts a huge strain on a small business. Remember the clue is in the word reserve, they should only be used as a last resort, not used to replace normal soldiers to save money.
Oh if world war 3 started these reserve soldiers would be happy enough to fight for their country, but it's not quite the same thing sending them to other counrties for the oil and then putting them in jail when they actually kill an emeny who has just been shooting at them, lets face it thats not really a war, it's a sort of fucked up bad joke, and the army wonders why it's hard to recruit...........
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