{"id":1351,"date":"2006-09-13T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/13\/115813339854785870\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:34:51","slug":"115813339854785870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/115813339854785870\/","title":{"rendered":"Squaddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Insanely busy again, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,6-2353083,00.html\">this annoyed me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A newly qualified squaddie facing suicide bombers, snipers and rockets round the clock earns two thirds of a British policeman&#8217;s wage; in a combat zone the 16-hour watches give an hourly rate of \u00c2\u00a32.45 and in Helmand, getting off duty after 16 hours is often a pipe dream anyway &#8211; fighting goes on for days. After Reid gaily said that they could leave &#8216;without a shot fired&#8217;, and beetled off to insult the Home Office, they are fighting a confused war in the hardest conditions possible. On peanuts. Even the separation allowance of \u00c2\u00a36 a day only kicks in after 12 months. Oh, and they pay council tax on their barracks rooms back in Britain.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=HOOTTAGZKQDFPQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/09\/13\/wirwin13.xml\">This utterly unrelated bit of nonsense<\/a>, however, is just stupid.<\/p>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insanely busy again, but this annoyed me: &#8220;A newly qualified squaddie facing suicide bombers, snipers and rockets round the clock earns two thirds of a British policeman&#8217;s wage; in a combat zone the 16-hour watches give an hourly rate of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/115813339854785870\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-the-war-against-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}