British Army Recruitment Campaign 2019

[grenadierguardsman]

Apparently you've no need to be fit anymore. As the Army have binned the BFT, ICFT and CFT. Saying they're out dated.
Andy

[Hoot]

Originally Posted by Jelly Terror

Vous écrivez les mots justes!

Mais oui JT!!.

[Hoot]

Let us not forget the latest poor wee lamb, blaming the Army for getting him all cold and shivery. Oh!, the horror of it all, how that poor mite must have suffered!!. I have no doubt that he will get the 25,000 quid he is demanding!!. You couldn't make it up!!.

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by Hoot

Let us not forget the latest poor wee lamb, blaming the Army for getting him all cold and shivery. Oh!, the horror of it all, how that poor mite must have suffered!!. I have no doubt that he will get the 25,000 quid he is demanding!!. You couldn't make it up!!.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-campaign.html

[leigh kitchen]

So the result of this campaign is that serving soldiers are melting away.........
I remember the old days when they used to fade away, old school wastage style.

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

So the result of this campaign is that serving soldiers are melting away.........
I remember the old days when they used to fade away, old school wastage style.

Yep. So far, we’re in deficit

[Hoot]

It all reminds me of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum". BSM Williams shouting at his men, "You is a load of poofs!!". Imagine that happening these days. The stress counselling alone would cost a fortune. Ah Diddums.

[leigh kitchen]

Send me your Snowflakes, your Me Me Me's, your Clowns and your Selfie Merchants.........
Are the Americans inspired by our army's recruiting campaign?

[Frank Kelley]

There was a mention, on BBC news yesterday, that one fifth of the British Army could not be deployed overseas because of medical issues!

Originally Posted by Hoot

It all reminds me of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum". BSM Williams shouting at his men, "You is a load of poofs!!". Imagine that happening these days. The stress counselling alone would cost a fortune. Ah Diddums.

[leigh kitchen]

Do they all have notes from their mums asking that little Johnny be excused PT and war?
I know, I'm being flippant and unfair. I won't have to cart a rifle and bayonet around for little pay again, some other poor so & so's got to do it while the folks back home complain that what they're doing is wrong.
It seems an amazingly large proportion of an army to be unfit for duty, the Americans have similar issues though I can't remember the % of their military who were reported last year as being unfit to fight

A series of "Too Fat To Fight" reports in recent years highlighted that a third of American youth was too fat to join the military, last year it was claimed that 71% of American youth aged between 17-24 couldn't meet the minimum criteria to serve.

It would be interesting to compare the amount of service personnel of different nations who aren't "fit to fight".

[Volunteer Soldier]

I wonder how the "Snowflakes" will react when they meet the RSM and Drill Sergeant? Or perhaps shouting is no longer allowed?

[leigh kitchen]

RM seem a bit closer to providing a recruiting incentive although there's no mention of helping to feed hungry people, thwarting drug runners, all that kind of stuff the military are portrayed as being for rather than for fighting bad guys and stuff.

https://youtu.be/sVKTh8HJdqo

[High Wood]

Here is one from my collection.

£6.9.6d per week, that is your motivation right there.

[High Wood]

Two more.

[leigh kitchen]

I like that KSLI one.
A Lancashire Fusiliers one, I'm thinking from around the late 40's -50's.
"The Modern Streamlined Army" - there was plenty of streamlining to come too.