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I left cus the money is shit and I was bored....

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The Army lad has a view.

"It's just a boring job because there aren't any wars going on," says Ryan Jenkins, who left the Army in 2018.....All you do is wake up in the morning and pick up rubbish around camp." "I left because the money is terrible," Ryan, 28, tells Radio 1 Newsbeat...and the accommodation was awful........."The food is the worst food you'll ever eat in your life."

What did he expect our carefully selected brown clad chums to do everyday?
 
Interesting that someone has finally published an article about how much sitting around or doing mind-numbing tasks is performed in the military, and how the quality of life has been eroded. Sure, there were good bits, and they are plastered all over the recruiting sites, but I also recall the crewrooms being full of bored mechanics drinking tea or sweeping the hangar. I recall the SWO's working party and litter picking duty after the NAAFI Bop. I remember the shitty single accommodation and the garbage that was served up when PAYD was introduced. I remember the family accommodation where you'd wait weeks for a repair, and if you dared to complain, the Welfare Officer would bollock you.
 
I too remember saying to myself as I was sweeping leaves up for the umpteenth time in the MT yard."I joined up to drive cars and trucks not do this crap."I was told to get on with it as it goes with the territory.
 
This is nothing new though...

Itsnot what you do it’s how you do it and with who! Sh1t jobs are everywhere in the mob but you make them interesting with your mates and make sure the day rounds off with something to look forward to like 5-a-side then beers.

If you spent your previous glued to an X-Box and has e next to feck all social skills you are likely to end up litter picking then retiring to your single man w@nk pad to go online and let real life slip you by.
 
Plenty of time sweeping leaves in Germany, cleaning and painting everything for the old AOCs inspection.

15 man rooms on my singley tour at Wildenrath, but food was good , along with LOA and duty free stuff!
Exercises were a fact of life along with three camping trips a year! Did get to drive a big green Bedford truck!
No food money taken for deployments either!
Sitting about drinking tea was a bonus when weather was crap. If the bosses couldn't find gash jobs for us.
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fourteen2two said:
Plenty of time sweeping leaves in Germany, cleaning and painting everything for the old AOCs inspection.

15 man rooms on my singley tour at Wildenrath, but food was good , along with LOA and duty free stuff!
Exercises were a fact of life along with three camping trips a year! Did get to drive a big green Bedford truck!
No food money taken for deployments either!
Sitting about drinking tea was a bonus when weather was crap. If the bosses couldn't find gash jobs for us.
I
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The perks have gone and all that is left is the crap. The quality of livers-in food, when taken from pay, was 2nd to none. The fact that it was free when on ex made it even better. Those left in who campaigned for PAYD should be made to make a financial contribution towards improving the quality of the food they have imposed on the kids who joined up with no choice - after all, you are all in it together...

Nowadays there's less folk to share the gash jobs around, so you'll either be on deployment, prepping for deployment or doing gash jobs. What else is there to do?
 
They didn’t do PAYD because a few people wanted it, they did it to save money and reduce the burden on the support services, the fact that A few people who went home every weekend moaned about it just allowed them to add a modicum of justification for it, if you ask enough people what they want you’ll get the answer you want.

With regards this chap there would be plenty of things to do if there was the money to pay for it, and there isn’t and as there arent any wars to distract, then boredom will set in if you’re role in life is to defend or kill people, and you’ll focus on what is Shiite about your life as your mind wanders.

Perhaps this little Iranian disagreement might liven things up
 
Really the Army must be slacking in regards to this soldier wants and needs. Pot of White paint, Cook potato peeler, Applying for Extra training, Transferring to a more adventurous military service. There numerous skills one can move onto in the Army tat doesn't involve excess tea consumption.
 
"It's just a boring job because there aren't any wars going on," says Ryan Jenkins, who left the Army in 2018..

Looks like Ryan picked the wrong time to leave on that basis, I'd say....
 
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