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On Sunday, Rifleman Andrew Fentiman was shot dead in Helmand Province just two weeks after arriving in Afghanistan.
One’s heart goes out to the family of Rifleman Fentiman and also to the families of the other soldiers killed or maimed in recent conflicts.
Mr Fentiman’s death carries a special significance. For he was in the Territorial Army whose members agree to serve their country by committing at least 27 training days a year, including a fortnight of continuous training or attachment to a regular serving unit.
The Territorial Army, it must be borne in mind, is the same band of young men whose funding Gordon Brown announced last month would be cut by £20 millions with all future training suspended. Until, of course, another of his spectacular U-turns!
While politicians play politics and tinker with budgets, men are being killed. Including men of the Territorial Army whose worth to this country should not be undervalued.
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On Sunday, Rifleman Andrew Fentiman was shot dead in Helmand Province just two weeks after arriving in Afghanistan.
One’s heart goes out to the family of Rifleman Fentiman and also to the families of the other soldiers killed or maimed in recent conflicts.
Mr Fentiman’s death carries a special significance. For he was in the Territorial Army whose members agree to serve their country by committing at least 27 training days a year, including a fortnight of continuous training or attachment to a regular serving unit.
The Territorial Army, it must be borne in mind, is the same band of young men whose funding Gordon Brown announced last month would be cut by £20 millions with all future training suspended. Until, of course, another of his spectacular U-turns!
While politicians play politics and tinker with budgets, men are being killed. Including men of the Territorial Army whose worth to this country should not be undervalued.
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