cowards.
You'd think after London the'eyd be signing up in droves.
Maybe some French in their bloodlines?
It's not a great suprise that numbers of troops deserting would rise during a time of actual war operations as opposed to during more routine peacetime operations? I think we can file this one under 'meh'...
"What is the normal number of AWOL soldiers in any given year" ?
A 1,000 number may be only a slight rise in the avg numbers.
No mention of them deserting in Iraq, though.
> Just wow.
Well, keep in mind this is the Beebe - the Domestic
Enemy Press in the UK. So one needs to ask:
1. Is the story even true?
2. What is the normal peacetime desertion rate? The
numbers in story carefully avoid talking about pre-2001
and giving us any historical context.
3. Where are the AWOLs happening, and how many of these
runners have "Mohammed" in their names?
The BBC is solidly in camp with our nation hating presstitutes....
I understand the Brits have banned the BBC from ships at sea -- due to the blantant bias against the war on Islamist lunatics..
Semper Fi
Give the Brits 10-20 years, and they'll all get amnesty.
Then they'll volunteer!
Poor little weak minded commie pawns! Thank God most of em wake up and grow up! It's unfortunate that it takes near decimation to bring understanding to the masses.
Figures don't correspond with headling of "1000 Desert". However, it could be that 1000 desert (that being apples) compared to nearly 3000 are AOL (being the oranges). Bottom line, the article was goofy.
Sadly I expect our own AWOL numbers to be around the same. That said the British have no clue what they are doing in Basra.
...a law that will forbid military personnel from refusing to participate in the occupation of a foreign country.One presumes from such a statement the only war the British would then be inclined to participate, would be one that requires action on their own soil. Next stop!
Going crazy and dying in Euroland.
And the British military is probably better off without them.
The UK needs a special law requiring troops to obey their orders? Weird.
That's probably an average number. In our military about 8000 get court-martialed every year. Its reality.
What was the desertion rate BEFORE that? I bet it's about the same.
As I said, it has to be considered in the context of what it was beofre.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006 12:02 a.m. EST
U.S. Military Desertion Rate Drops
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/7/120646.shtml
At least 8,000 members of the U.S. military have deserted since the Iraq war began in 2003 – but the overall desertion rate has dropped sharply following the 9/11 attacks, Pentagon records show.
The Army, Navy and Air Force reported 7,978 desertions in 2001, the year of the Sept. 11 attacks, but only 3,456 in 2005. The Marine Corps also showed a drop in desertion numbers last year compared to 2001.
Desertions in 2005 represented less than a quarter (.24) of one percent of the 1.4 million American forces. During the Vietnam era, 3.4 percent of Army personnel deserted.