advertising page for costings and details.
Your company could advertise in this column, which will be seen on each page.
The price for a link and a small message in this space to advertise your company starts from £300 a year. Not bad considering it would cost at least £300 VAT to advertise in local newspapers per week. This site has been viewed worldwide - from all over the UK, USA, Canada, Germany and even Sweden ....Not forgetting our boys and girls in Iraq and Afganistan!
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This event has been advertised on Kestrel FM - Basingstoke's local radio station
and in the Basingstoke Observer. Also many thanks to the Observer for letting the public know why the event was canceled, and for their support.
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Join us in the celebration, and show your support for all the serving men and women in the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy
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Many thanks for Slater menswear for donating £100, the organisers of the event thank you. To get more information for Slater menswear and branches visit the links page
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Thanks to the Basingstoke branch of the ACF for their assistance and support.
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| The Army is beginning its new winter recruitment campaign with a series of glossy television advertisements - amid the mounting casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq.  British troops in Basra, Iraq It comes at a crucial time for the armed forces, with high numbers of people leaving and against a backdrop of the growing casualty figures. In the year 2005/2006, 24,000 people left the armed services compared with 18,150 who joined up. Last year, the new head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, warned British forces were stretched. "We are running hot, certainly running hot. Can we cope? I pause. I say 'Just'," he said. He said soldierswere doing "more than their share" in Afghanistan, where 78 personnel have been killed so far. In Iraq, the British death toll stands at 169 since the US-led invasion in 2003. At a Glasgow recruitment centre, 25-year-old demolition worker Willy Tran explained why he was determined to sign up. "It's always been my dream since I was a boy. I've failed the fitness test once already but I hope to get through this time. It's about a whole lot of young people doing something together," he said. Also nervously awaiting her final tests was 16-year-old Rachel Caldwell. She hopes to start at the Army Foundation College in January once she has finished the selection process, and wants to become a combat medical technician on the frontline. "I'm a bit nervous", she said. "But I'm looking forward to the opportunities that this life gives you and the whole lifestyle appealed to me." But the new recruits' vision of life in the armed forces can be at odds with the reality, as members of 51 Squadron, who returned to RAF Lossiemouth last week after a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, know all too well. As well as working in extremely hostile conditions while defending Kandahar airfield, one of their number - 20-year-old Senior Aircraftsman Christopher Bridge - was killed while on patrol. As one senior warrant officer put it: "It was a wake up call to many of the young guys about what life in the armed forces can really be like." |
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