Many Troops ‘Feel Like Quitting’
Not our U.S. troops, the British!
Almost half of UK military personnel are ready to leave the forces, a Ministry of Defence survey suggests.
Some 47% of Army and Royal Navy respondents and 44% of those in the RAF said they regularly felt like quitting.
The survey did highlight wide differences between the levels of satisfaction expressed by officers compared with other ranks.
- In the Army 73% of officers said they had job satisfaction, compared with 57% of soldiers
- In the Royal Marines it was 71% of officers compared with 50% among other ranks
- 70% of RAF officers had job satisfaction compared with 50% of other ranks
- In the Royal Navy it was 64% of officers but only 48% of sailors
Asked if they felt valued within their service, 49% of ratings in the navy said they did not, along with 44% of soldiers and 53% of airmen and women.
More than half of those who responded to the survey were not satisfied with standards of military equipment and resources given to them to do their jobs, while some 40% were unhappy with service accommodation, and 55% were dissatisfied with the standards of maintenance of their service housing.
