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First point: due to its arduous nature and relatively low pay, active service in the military should accrue for an individual a certain amount of social capital. Even more so for someone who has seen exemplary service.
Second point: the effects of war service, PTSD and physical injury (particularly head injuries) on behavioral patterns of veterans are still not completely understood
Which brings me to my critique. We have here a special forces veteran with years of exemplary service and a war service injury being convicted of a relatively minor offence (let's face it, he was paid to handle weapons for a long time and is not of criminal character) and sentenced by some REMF to an inappropriately long period of detention. F@&k you and your service too, thank you very much. With changing demographics, cutbacks and bollocks like this, the UK will struggle to recruit the best and brightest in the future.
Last edited by Trojan1981; 12th Nov 2012 at 03:09.