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Not sure how it worked but my friend "joined" the army at 16, not sure what the contractual obligation was but he went to an Army College to do his A-Levels, then they put him through Uni doing Civil Engineering and then in to Sandringham for Office training before an eventual couple of tours of Afghanistan. As teens we were all fairly jealous of him as he always had loads of money and his school holidays seems to be going to Canada, Norway, UK National parks doing adventurous stuff. Went to visit him once at uni and he was in a flat and all the flat mates were in the same boat. All his food, accommodation, uni fees etc. were covered.