Army Plays Down Drop of 30 Per Cent in Recruits Signing Up
The Scotsman › October 01, 2007
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THE army insisted yesterday there was no recruitment crisis north of the Border despite the publication of figures showing a 30 per cent drop in the number of new soldiers from Scotland in the past five years.
A total of 2,346 Scottish recruits joined the army in 2002-3 in the lead up to the Iraq war. By 2006-7, that had dropped to 1,617 - a fall of 31 per cent.See the full content of this document
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Army Plays Down Drop of 30 Per Cent in Recruits Signing Up
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