Saturday, January 06, 2007

Army raises joining age to ease recruitment shortfall!

Read this About time too!-The first sensible thing the MoD's done in a long time and long overdue!

Read also-Infantry crisis as troops quit

# posted by Scipio @ 2:51 AM

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