Gli anni sabbatici militari per i diplomati saranno introdotti prima delle elezioni generali | Notizie ITV
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-11-03/military-gap-years-for-school-leavers-to-be-introduced-before-general-election
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Gli anni sabbatici militari per i diplomati saranno introdotti prima delle elezioni generali | Notizie ITV
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-11-03/military-gap-years-for-school-leavers-to-be-introduced-before-general-election
di Super-Nuntendo
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How long before ‘voluntary’ is changed to ‘compulsory’…
The Cadets already exist. The gov should return the funding to the Cadet services that was removed under the previous governments, remove the red tape around organising even the most basic activities in the cadets and encourage young people to join those rather than trying to make another scheme.
It’s not the worst idea, they just need to sell it better. They won’t have them all running around with guns in Ukraine and if you can get a year of cyber security or electrical engineering training under your belt on the tax payer, that’s got to be worth something considering how expensive university is.
This is literally why I voted against the tories. We should not have any form of conscription.
This actually just sounds like cheap labour for the government.
They should lower enlistment standards related to past mental health. It’s insane how an unfit and unintelligent person who doesn’t know their arse from their elbow can join. But a 30 year old marathon runner who self harmed twice age 12 cannot join. I get that there has to be standards, but some of the standards are just completely bonkers.
Ah yes, compulsory military service.
What a *fantastic* idea.
/s
Someone I know very well made her career in the RAF.
The problem is that a lot of people now will see it as living in crap housing, being yelled at, not seeing the world (because we don’t have bases all over the place anymore) and potentially getting killed at the whim of a Starmer or Johnson (I’m not sure which is worse – die for the monochrome middle manager, or die for the mad idiot?)
My RAF acquaintance did it because she wanted to do something very specific that you can really only do there. Beyond that, I really can’t see why anyone would bother.
This has literally been a thing since at least the early 80s.
Honestly, looking at the idea as discussed, I’d probably have at least been tempted when I was that age. With the Australian model being used as an example, youd get a salary, skills training, subsidised needs like accommodation, and not have any long-term military commitments, and Id have been able to pick up exactly where I would have been after a gap year anyway.
Gap year commissions are already a thing. This isn’t new.