Is the message getting home?

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Our forces can't carry on like this, says General Sir Richard Dannatt General Sir Richard Dannatt, the Chief of the General Staff, reveals in a top-level report that the present level of operations is "unsustainable", the Army is "under-manned" and increasing numbers of troops are "disillusioned" with service life. The head of the Army has warned that years of Government under-funding and overstretch have left troops feeling "devalued, angry and suffering from Iraq fatigue", The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

Soldiers have been, for many years, first class servants but second class citizens.
The insults inflicted on the soldier are coming home to roost. Finally, the Top Brass is taking note, and about time too.
The majority of former soldiers do not belong to Associations, a fact that Associations ignore. Charities who claim to have Soldiers, the RAF and the Navy personnel and their families interest to heart, let them do with down with monotonous regularity.
Next week an undertaking is to begin that will identify the shortcomings of a large service charity. This Royal Charter body gives the impression of wanting a public facade untarnished with the CHARITY of conscience, whose most serious indictment is that it does not allow their volunteer helpers to assist in some of the most tragic cases of neglect imaginable. Correspondence will be published that proves that PC had taken precedence over the need to CARE for vulnerable former soldiers and their families.