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Old 19th Jun 2015, 10:11
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Wander00
 
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I am surprised at those that think that being a former service person should carry with it the right to continued use of Service facilities. Just think how contact with serving personnel could be supported with wonderful tales of how it was in the good old days.


Seriously though, in the UK we are not too good at supporting veterans, and most of what is done is by charities (which seriously winds my clock, as does the fact that we have helicopter air ambulances only with charitable support, when they save the NHS large sums by getting emergency cases to treatment inside the "golden hour" (rant "off"!). I would have thought that some scheme could be devised to allow continued use on a "marginal cost" basis, and in that way promote the integration of those serving and non-serving support personnel on the same unit.
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