Pressure on The Best

IT’S not the Army recruitment slogan Be The Best that is responsible for the huge fall in recruits (Mail).

I believe it is down to the betrayal of Sgt Alexander Blackman, the Royal Marine, who, in the heat of battle, suffered a momentary loss of control and was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.

His conviction was overturned on appeal after he had served three-and-a-half years in prison.

Another issue is the hounding of former soldiers by money-grubbing lawyers over events in Northern Ireland 40 years ago.

If I were a young man considering a life in the Army, I’d think: ‘Sod that for a game of soldiers.’

D. DUNCAN, Porthcawl, Mid-Glamorgan.