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Old 03-10-2015, 03:43 PM #9
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Originally Posted by Livia View Post
Not just because of the obvious... our army is being dismantled bit by bit. Regiments have amalgamated, personnel have been axed, they don't have the kind of equipment they need. Some of the troops in Afghanistan received their redundancy notices while they were still in a war zone. Pretty soon we'll have a smaller standing army than we had in the 1930s. We can't expect them to be able to do the job they are meant to do while the government are stripping them down to the bone.
It is a disgrace. We have ample money to throw away in lots of other areas. A disgrace.
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