lennart
26-04-04, 17:15
Hundreds of army officers resign to cash in on Iraqi security boom
BRIAN BRADY
THE Ministry of Defence has begged private security firms working in Iraq to stop ‘poaching’ its best soldiers amid fears that hundreds of officers are leaving the army to cash in on the spoils of war.
Scotland on Sunday can reveal that the number of officers requesting Premature Voluntary Release has soared since Saddam Hussein was ousted. Some 350 senior soldiers have applied to leave in the past six months alone, compared with the previous year’s total of 499.
The army - which is already struggling to maintain numbers - can ill afford to lose so many officers in such a short period. MoD bosses recently approached ex-servicemen running many of the private security firms in Iraq and asked them not to recruit from among serving soldiers.
(...)http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=465802004
BRIAN BRADY
THE Ministry of Defence has begged private security firms working in Iraq to stop ‘poaching’ its best soldiers amid fears that hundreds of officers are leaving the army to cash in on the spoils of war.
Scotland on Sunday can reveal that the number of officers requesting Premature Voluntary Release has soared since Saddam Hussein was ousted. Some 350 senior soldiers have applied to leave in the past six months alone, compared with the previous year’s total of 499.
The army - which is already struggling to maintain numbers - can ill afford to lose so many officers in such a short period. MoD bosses recently approached ex-servicemen running many of the private security firms in Iraq and asked them not to recruit from among serving soldiers.
(...)http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=465802004