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31 minutes ago, saddler said:

I can throw in a pair of ammo boots and some Scottish falling down water.

WISH the f*ckin recruiters knew their arses from their elbows.
He was Scots Guards recruit - had a MINOR issue once IN Catterick (that had been present for 5 or 6 years) and had been waved off at all pre-joining medicals, initial Basic medical, etc.
Initially they said it wasn't a problem, then it WAS but the army would make sure it was fixed while in their care & he'd not be medically discharged, then some RAMC spunktrumpet decides it's a huge problem (it wasn't*) so he gets a medical discharge.

*Based on a couple of very qualified specialist consultants who assessed and treated the issue, with zero evidence from very extensive tests of the problem the RAMC quack dreamed up.
Sadly, as he's been operated on I can no longer beckon him by the correct terminology, Clarence...

ANYWAY - he's been trying to get back in for a good few months. Between the Training Coy in Catterick, the Admin cockwombles in Wilts and the local recruiting office, I fear for the UK infantry's ability to fire a group of five rounds in the direction of the enemy. 

It's got to be so bad he has also applied to join the Navy - they must be hard up as they want to put him in a tin fish thing that hides under the waves - but again, no real speed on getting him from under our feet to under theirs. They are insisting on him having a passport first. None of my relatives were asked for one on that trip they did to Normandy in '44 - there were no frogs around to show one too anyway!
@John MH - anyone need a batman, mess orderly, crap house commando?

Yep, that is about where we are at with recruitment just now.  It is getting better slowly but surely.  Its unfortunate the army can't tie all departments down together.  Hopefully they take him back in, if only to prevent him being traded in to slavery.

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A bargain at this price surely someone out there must be tempted.  A true one of a kind