Originally Posted by
GlennMiller
During my almost four decades in the military, potential National Service was always looked upon with dread. Love them or hate them, our Armed Forces are a well-honed organisation geared to produce highly motivated individuals to carry out often highly technical and demanding tasks. The training involved is intense and specialised and there is no slack to entertain a political vote-seeking wheeze.
That said, if the Government was willing to invest massively in a new quasi military organisation, run by ex military personnel on reclaimed former military sites, with the intention of instilling some discipline, respect, patriotism and fitness in to today's youth, it would get my backing. But nothing should be done which dilutes or compromises our worryingly contracting military capabilities!