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MachoMan09 wrote:Regiments of the British Army should not have to find themselves going cap in hand directly to the general public to raise funds. The defence budget should be such that injured servicemen and women get all the support they need for as long as they need. Families of those killed in action should receive similar levels of support. If the government is failing to deliver, serious questions must be asked and solutions put in place ASAP.

'Help For Heroes' is a fantastic charity and the work done by them is rightly lauded but their should be no requirement for them. The same applies here. Amir is running to raise money for his regiment. This is no different than somebody in a department of the NHS running a marathon in order to raise funds to buy medicine or a teacher to raise money for blackboards (or whatever they write on nowadays).

That isn't my way of saying don't give. I think you should - if you can afford to. Instead I am simply trying to highlight that the MoD should have all this stuff covered. If they don't. Why don't they?