Posted on Sep 9, 2018
British army 'explicitly targeting' working-class recruits, say critics
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Is the British Army wrong in recruiting 16 year olds?
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There is concern about some of the army’s tactics for drawing in new recruits. In the summer the Guardian revealed that the army had aimed This Is Belonging material at stressed and vulnerable 16-year-olds via social media on and around GCSE results day.
The briefing paper gives details of how and where This Is Belonging adverts should be placed and gives an insight into some of the thinking behind the campaign, which critics claim gives an unrealistic and romantic idea of life in the army.
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There is concern about some of the army’s tactics for drawing in new recruits. In the summer the Guardian revealed that the army had aimed This Is Belonging material at stressed and vulnerable 16-year-olds via social media on and around GCSE results day.
The briefing paper gives details of how and where This Is Belonging adverts should be placed and gives an insight into some of the thinking behind the campaign, which critics claim gives an unrealistic and romantic idea of life in the army.
British army 'explicitly targeting' working-class recruits, say critics
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Anybody know how the Brit school system works? It said that 16 was the "school leaving age". Does that mean they graduate from high school at 16 and then go to college or work? If so then 16 might make sense. But if they are begore graduation i dont know
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Well keep in mind that Britain does not consider itself the world's policeman. So the likelihood of Joe Blogs (English equivalent of Joe Sixpack) ending up in somewherestan getting shot at is quite remote.
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We take recruits at 17 the Brits just do so a year earlier and then send the to combat at the same minimum age as we do at 18. The Aussies do this also. And Armies have explicitly targeted the working class and the poor since Sargon was a recruit.
BTW I was in the USAF 6 months before I turned 18
BTW I was in the USAF 6 months before I turned 18
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