Originally Posted by
RWD_cossie_wil
Just for your info, I am in the RAF, and when I was in Kandahar last year, the food bill for JUST the British forces on that one base was £800,000 a DAY!!
Not greatly different to paying the armed forces to sit on their arse or be in training in this country, the only way to greatly drop the bill for looking after the armed services is to greatly drop the number of people in the armed services IMHO
Which would then of course lose us some leverage