Fucking disgusting

[red macca]

Just done a remortgage for a lad who has jus got back from iraq.Got paid a bit extra for going there so when i asked what his salary was i was fucking shocked.

£18k take home :shock:  this is seriously wrong

[Fred Elliot]

Fuck me did you not know that ?

I know someone that did

1 tour Iraq
1 tour Afghan
3 Tours NI
Help build a school in Jamaica
Guarded a place in Kenya against the Militia



£15K

FUCKING DISGUSTING

He's a plasterer now

[red macca]

I cant believe that mate.

[Sussex]

And they wonder why the British forces are 6000 troops under staffed.

[Samdy Gray]

Manatees would do it for free y'know

[Bogus Dave]

nah, a manatees a lover not a fighter

[lebowski]

if they did a sequel to top gun and then signed people up when leaving the cinema then that 6,000 short-fall would be solved very quickly.

just my opinion, like.

[hansgruber]

They don't need an awful lot of skill to earn £18k though, do they?

[Panda Paws]

They don't need an awful lot of skill to earn £18k though, do they?

They need an awful lot of bravery and bollox to put your life down though!! you'd take home 15k a year working in a call centre reading from a script! It's just wrong

[hansgruber]

Brave=Paid more? Don't think so. The 'grunts' who do all the hard work are, in the most part, not skilled enough to get a job in a call centre. The Army gives them far more than £18k - they get a career for life, training to a very high degree, self control and discipline, self-respect and pride, and a number of hugely portable skills (like the ability to come quickly over a biscuit and to racially abuse corner-shop owners at will).

[pumbaa]

I'm going to assume this individual was fairly young & enlisted? If so, not exactly surprising tbh, but still shockingly low.

[Fred Elliot]

The individual is my son Coxy

and the 15K was his exit salary

[Fred Elliot]

Brave=Paid more? Don't think so. The 'grunts' who do all the hard work are, in the most part, not skilled enough to get a job in a call centre. The Army gives them far more than £18k - they get a career for life, training to a very high degree, self control and discipline, self-respect and pride, and a number of hugely portable skills (like the ability to come quickly over a biscuit and to racially abuse corner-shop owners at will).

I find that offensive Hans

All my son ever wanted to do was to enlist for the infantry.

He got the magic 5 at school, all with good grades.

He came out through his disillusionment of the hierarchy and went back to college and is now a tradesman.

I would hardly call him a "grunt"

[ronnie21]

Perhaps a straw poll on here to see how many are prepared to go out to Iraq or Afghanistan in the next three months and possibly lose their life (one reported dead in Basra this morning) would be interesting.  I, for one, would NOT want to go out there, not that there is much chance of that with my medical history!

[Simon Pieman]

It is stupidly low, but people still enlist and that's why it's not any higher.

I know it was very one sided but that part in Fahrenheit 9/11 when Moore goes to Flint highlighted how sad and exploitative the Army can be.