[another_someone]

quote:Originally posted by tony6789
http://jennings.noacsc.org/

Don't know if my tastes have changed that much since I was a id, but the school dinners there, although they may be quite different to our school dinners, do not look any more appetising.

George

[tony6789 (OP)]

lol that is true lol

NEVER! underestimate youth

[another_someone]

One always has to be careful in interpreting news reports, and I don't want to make too much of one report, but it may give an idea of the kind of stresses a modern soldier might face.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5285816.stm

quote:
A teenage soldier who killed himself because he feared having to shoot child suicide bombers has been buried.
Jason Chelsea, 19, a Kings, Lancashire and Border Regiment infantryman, died four days after taking an overdose.
Shortly after taking the overdose, he told his parents that as part of training for Iraq he had been warned he might have to shoot children.

Earlier this month the MoD released figures showing 1,541 soldiers who served in Iraq are suffering from psychiatric illness.
Last year, 727 cases were recorded, amounting to nearly 10% of the British deployment.

George