The British army tried to appeal to ‘snowflake millennials’ – it went very badly

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The British army has been struggling to attract new recruits in recent years. In October, reports showed they were more than 5,000 short of their target of 82,500 full-trained troops. But if early

 

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Good luck with this campaign :D

Did it? I have seen so much coverage about this recruitment campaign across all media

Just because they like video games don't mean that they want to fight for queen and country there more likely to be conceus objectors figting in real life is a lot more different than on a p.c or video game.

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