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My reading of that doesn't seem to draw a correlation to CCF and young people going into the forces.
I'd have thought CCF linked to schools would be much more prevalent at private, or at least grammar schools. There i presume you're less likely to have children leave <18 and probably go on to higher education. In both cases not the group that the article is discussing.
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I'd have thought CCF linked to schools would be much more prevalent at private, or at least grammar schools.
I'm not being funny, but did you read the article?
To make it even worse, it is the poorest areas of the country and society that are targeted. In just one year, over 2,000 school visits took place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And there are proportionately greater numbers of visits to state secondary schools than private schools. Subsequent recruits – impressionably young and often from deprived backgrounds – are then funnelled into combat roles when they turn 18, usually in the infantry where personnel are seven times more likely to die than in other parts of the armed services, and where those recruited at 16 are approximately twice as likely to die as all the rest.
Fox
Basically this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-british-armed-forces-needs-to-stop-targeting-and-recruiting-children-10352738.html
(I don't think there's necessarily a problem with the odd away day, and I can definitely see that it's good for soldiers to not be institutionalised.)