So pissed off at tories putting military youth groups into deprived area schools

[trashcanjunkie]

We live in Newcastle. Yes it's a deprived area. I feel aghast at the fact the only half decent comprehensive school in our area has a cadet group based at school, with fucking army wankers there recruiting kids. The whole army campaign to get them young and 'make them better people' boils my fucking piss. They're cannon fodder who will likely get shipped out to oil wars, and left up shit creek without a paddle, wanting for basic kit etc. Then they either get blown to pieces, die, or come home horrifically injured or psychologically shattered. Now the government are rolling out another military type program and are putting money into sending them into schools in deprived areas.

Fwiw I've nothing against youngsters learning discipline or survival skills etc. I just have an issue with recruiting cannon fodder from 'us plebs'....

DS joined Cadets late and went for two years. He loved the drill, the crawling about the countryside in a gillie suit, the camps. He failed to get into the Army because of a health problem, but he would still say Cadets gave him a lot more resilience and his motto is still 'Cheerfulness in the face of adversity'.
My reservation is around child protection though. Things happened which some officers regarded as 'boys will be boys' which would be unacceptable in schools. There seemed to be tension between those officers who saw it as a youth organisation and those who really did see it as preparation for the military.