Armed Forces “Not Particularly Safe Career” Shocker
How stupid do you have to be to go round telling people the Army is dangerous? Excuse me? What, you mean being shot at might be harmful? Oh dear…
It seems like someone somewhere might have missed the point doesn’t it. Check this article out - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7174431.stm Oh no, you mean someone’s advertising something and only pointing out the positives? I mean, thinking about it, it would be pretty silly paying money to advertise the negatives. Imagine Coke advertising the fact that Coca Cola could make you fat and rot you teeth? Marks & Spencers advertising “this isn’t just chicken, this is battery farmed, carcinogenic chicken that tastes like hot death and is overpriced by 200%”.
The report’s author, David Gee, told the BBC that new recruits cannot predict how they will feel later on in their lives.
Funny that - neither do I. But I don’t use it as an excuse not to get a job, in case I change my mind about what I might like to do. Turns out, the 9-5 thing? Its great for now, but in ten years I might not like it anymore so I’m going to get out now, before I get too involved. 24/7 PS3 for me from now on.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is a Quaker organisation which is “committed to a culture of peace and the creation of a peaceful world”.
Quakerism holds pacifism as a cornerstone of its religious beliefs. Great - David Gee (from the aforementioned Trust) is not in anyway biased then?
The report does highlight one thing though - when you join the armed forces you don’t get to sit around laughing and jokin and abseiling all day. Occasionally you have to do your job - like shoot and be shot at. Great, glad to have that cleared up then.
Its not like the media, with the endless photos of dead soldiers and burning children aren’t helping redress the balance anyway.