getting back to the point of the thread:
The MoD does not want YOU!
It cannot afford YOU!
It wants to get rid of thousands of YOU!
By getting rid of YOU it will save money and hope to fill the £36bn black hole
If it can get rid of YOU without spending too much money on redundancy etc. then it will do so, by making life uncomfortable (fitness test, poor housing, reduction in allowances, reduction of harmony, paying for your food, paying for your accomodation, reduction in kit and making you spend your entire career on ops/detachment). Great if you are in your 20s and single but...)