March 17, 2005
Underage recruiting
The Commons Defence Committee are recommending that the army end underage recruiting. They suggest people entering the forces should be 18 and over, a sensible suggestion which might help Britain develop a modern, well-organized defence and peace-keeping force.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) are as usual resisting this. Nothing comes out of the MOD except one piece of bad news after another: unexplained deaths of recruits, mistaken or ignored military intelligence, missing equipment, mistreatment of prisoners, etc etc. The MOD is always ducking the questions, attempting to cover up some new scandal - and of course they are against any kind of reform!