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  I am with you on this Vic, it is ludicrous to make trained service personnel redundant and then advertise for new entrants; unless of course the exercise is about cutting short term costs rather than the myth of efficiency. Having said that there will always be a need to bring in fresh recruits as serving personnel reach the end of their tours and retire, but surely if the best way to reduce overall service numbers is to reduce recruitment so the numbers leaving at the end of their term exceeds the new entrants.
  
  As an aside I do however think that their are valuable lessons that need to be applied from recent conflicts, namely T.A./reserve medical teams provided significantly enhanced care and survival outcomes compared to the regulars medical units and consequently perhaps the bulk of military medical care should be transferred to the T.A./reserve units and the NHS; also global logistics firms such as Eddie Stobart and TNT provided a much more cost effective service at delivering general supplies to rear echelon areas than the military service corps/units did, again perhaps this outsourcing should become permanent, freeing up service personnel for more specialised duties.
  
  Finally, I do feel that our service personnel have been ill served since the Falklands conflict, being used to bolster and defend US imperialism and commercial interests around the globe through involvement in places we have little or no interest in and frankly no need or right to be there.

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