British Military Current Events

[daftandbarmy]

Gawd bless the social media happy snap

Soldiers who shared photographs of their disgusting meals - including mouldy eggs and maggot-infested tomatoes - are warned by senior staff they may face legal action​

• Service personnel have posted pictures of their disgusting meals online
• They hoped to shame Ministry of Defence and caterers over food quality
• Army bosses now 'warned soldiers could face legal action for slander'
• But food suppliers Sodexo say they are not threatening to sue anyone
• If you are in the forces and have been served disgusting food, send your meal photos to pictures@mailonline.co.uk

Soldiers who shared images of disgusting food warned with legal action

After the initial wave of photos was shared this week, soldiers posted even more images (pictured) and angry comments after being told they could face legal action.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Blackadder1916]

Was there a sign above the hot plate that said "One egg, two weetabix, only"?

It's a cultural thing....

One egg, per man, per day, perhaps.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Gawd bless the social media happy snap

Soldiers who shared photographs of their disgusting meals - including mouldy eggs and maggot-infested tomatoes - are warned by senior staff they may face legal action​

• Service personnel have posted pictures of their disgusting meals online
• They hoped to shame Ministry of Defence and caterers over food quality
• Army bosses now 'warned soldiers could face legal action for slander'
• But food suppliers Sodexo say they are not threatening to sue anyone
• If you are in the forces and have been served disgusting food, send your meal photos to pictures@mailonline.co.uk

Soldiers who shared images of disgusting food warned with legal action

After the initial wave of photos was shared this week, soldiers posted even more images (pictured) and angry comments after being told they could face legal action.

www.dailymail.co.uk

How to build morale and retention.........

 

[daftandbarmy]

How to build morale and retention.........

Over many years of service there I found the food perhaps a bit plain, but never potentially murderous.

Bring back the Army Catering Corps!

 

[daftandbarmy]

The unofficial regimental motto: Work Hard

Regimental Stories - The Parachute Regiment​

 

[daftandbarmy]

The secret to the Army's success? Invest in your Reserve Forces....

Delivering 'Mass' for the British Army: Defence Reviews and Second Echelon Choices​

With near-peer threats and stiff economic challenges, 2025's Strategic Defence Review has hard balance to find if it is going to provide a credible Land force, but such a balance has been struck before.

The British Army needs depth to be sustainable in war: both a second echelon to follow close behind the first, and structures to generate a third and subsequent ones. The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) and the Treasury, despite the recent increased announcement in spending, are unlikely to both fund more regular troops for a second echelon and maintain the equipment programme and extra munitions required for modernisation. Army Reserve units and formations can provide the cost-effective additional mass to expand the army in war and deliver that second echelon.

The Strategic Reserve can provide individual reinforcements but cannot grow the army with additional units. The current Future Soldier warfighting structure inhibits the ability of the Army Reserve to expand the British Army in war. This commentary looks to the last time a Defence Review had to balance ‘NATO First’ with modernising the army in fiscally challenging times, set against a peer-level threat in Europe. It illustrates how the British Army embraced their reserve forces to reorganise and modernise into an army that was sustainable, affordable and played a key role in successfully delivering deterrence.

The necessity for a funded, equipped and trained Army Reserve in peacetime has been a key lesson from Ukraine and from our own history. The peacetime formed reserve units of the Ukrainian Army were vastly more effective than those units pulled together from scratch with little cohesion and very poor combat effectiveness. While Army Reserve units are not equivalent in capability to Regular units, history, and our allies performance, show they can provide a “good enough” contingent capability within a few weeks from mobilisation, for the focussed wartime missions they should be allocated. This provides mass and sustainability, to allow time for subsequent echelons to be generated.

Delivering 'Mass' for the British Army: Defence Reviews and Second Echelon Choices

The Future Soldier warfighting structure stands as an impediment to the British Army attaining mass, with reservist unit training withering.

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[daftandbarmy]

Punish the negligent commanders and others responsible, or set up a ‘snitch line’…

I think it’s playing out the way the minister would prefer

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[daftandbarmy]

Poor things...

British Army recruits need a 10-hour lie in to cope with the rigours of boot camp and stop the from misbehaving, military scientists claim​

The centuries-old early morning reveille call signalling the beginning of the Army's working day may be under threat after military scientists found recruits need a lie-in to help them cope with the rigours of basic training.

Top brass asked experts to look at the training schedule to assess what changes could be made to improve pass rates and tackle the Army's manning crisis.

After a study lasting several months, the boffins found that the would-be soldiers needed up to ten hours sleep if they are to pass through the rigours of boot camp.

It is all a far cry from the more traditional approach when recruits went to bed late after training and were expected to rise as early as 5am, with their sergeant major – such as the one portrayed by Windsor Davies in the 1970s TV comedy It Ain't Half Hot Mum – barking orders from dawn till dusk.

Now Army scientists have found that they perform better, learn more and are less likely to have disciplinary issues if they get up to ten hours kip a night.

They were asked to study sleeping patterns in a bid to reduce 'wastage' – when recruits drop-out of basic training without completing the course.

In some cases, wastage was as high as 45 per cent – and the finger of blame is now being pointed at a lack of sleep.

Recruit soldiers need lie-in to cope with boot camp, scientists claim

Top brass asked experts to look at the training schedule to assess what changes could be made to improve pass rates and tackle the Army's manning crisis.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Functioning without much sleep is a skillset they are going to have to learn at some point though.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Functioning without much sleep is a skillset they are going to have to learn at some point though.

I'm afraid they'll just have to learn at the expense of their soldiers then...