What a way to treat a hero

[anotheoldgit]

In the week that we hear of yet another British soldier killed in Afghanistan, we read this shocking story.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/60026 /Soldier-is-refused-a-bed-by-hotel-because-he- is-in-the-Army

Perhaps soldiers do sometimes have a little too much drink, but then they are not the only ones.

If this soldier had been drunk when he tried to book-in, then the hotel receptionist would have been in the right to refuse entry, (or indeed if he had arrived back at the hotel drunk), but there was no report that either was the case. He was simply refused to book-into the hotel, because he was a soldier.

This hotel should have it's licence taken away.

[puddicat]

aog i am ex air force,so will defend the forces,but some of the army guys are pure animals, i have known of one that glassed a woman in the face, and ran back to his regiment who tried to stop the civilian police intervening!!!!

[Kromovaracun]

do however think it's true that the army will accept any scumbag off the street and many Soldiers would struggle to hold down any other job. I had a friend who was overweight, unfit and totally unemployable - he got into the army!!

Bear in mind that soldiers aren't the only part of the army - there's also plenty of demand for people for bureaucracy, engineering, catering, medical, or maybe even just driving etc. etc.

[tigerlily11]

Gromit I was born and raised in Aldershot.
It has always been that way. There are parts of Aldershot that I remember that only civvy girls were allowed simply because the local male population used to start trouble.
And then there were areas that soldiers simply didn't go for the same reason.
Things are very different now because Aldershot is in a very bad way since alot of the army was moved out. A lot of buisness was lost. It's dead.
But I think its a crying shame for this country in general that people winning medals for doing a hobby are considered heros and, wether or not you like the fact, our boys and girls are in far away places, trying to keep those who seek to deprive us of the free speech that we take for granted and is regularly used on these pages to object to the army, from causing any more problems.
But having said that it doesn't help when this goverment appears to allowing these very trouble makers to set up home here.
For the army they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.