http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25688136
The biggest FAIL might be that Battlefield 4-style ad
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| Author: | pcernie [ Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Army recruitment a 'big challenge' |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25688136 The biggest FAIL might be that Battlefield 4-style ad
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Sat Jan 11, 2014 1:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Army recruitment a 'big challenge' |
Didn't they just finish reducing the size of the army? |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:12 pm ] | |||||||||
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No. They reduced the amount of money available to it, while still requiring it to do things that require a large number of people. Which us why they're on a recruitment drive for TA as well as regular army, because the TA cost much less. |
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| Author: | davrosG5 [ Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:44 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Army recruitment a 'big challenge' | |||||||||
Except for training them up in the first place. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sat Jan 11, 2014 6:10 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Army recruitment a 'big challenge' | ||||||||||||||||||
Not really. The TA recruit people who have already been trained in useful skills in civilian life where possible, so the army doesn't need to pay for their training from scratch. Obviously, there is nobody in civilian life who already knows how to operate artillery or what have you, but a civilian nurse largely is similar to a combat nurse, so the cost of the extra training is massively reduced. That's actually the point of the TA. Everyone has the image that TA are all 'weekend infantry' but in the main, they're not. The regular army do all the front line stuff and the TA are largely used to fill in all the 'behind the line' specialist posts that are needed as well but you don't need to be a combat soldier to do. |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Army recruitment a 'big challenge' |
problem ... a large company (any large company) has 50/500 TA reservists working for them war is declared and reservist are called up how many companies are willing to release that many staff for a prolonged period that's why we have a full time regular armed force ... |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:58 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Army recruitment a 'big challenge' | |||||||||
There are also TA SAS and engineer units. IED disposal is not something that you will be trained for in civvy street, except if you have ever had to handle an McDonalds hot apple pie. 
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