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Army fury over 'nursery recruitment' claims

Friday 16th July 2010

Army bosses are reported to be furious about claims from the Scottish National Party that they are dispatching soldiers into primary schools and nurseries to "soften up" children for recruitment.

Christine Grahame, a senior MSP, alleged she had obtained documents showing that the British military was lying over its assurances it did not enter Scottish schools without first being invited by a teacher.

Instead she suggested the Ministry of Defence was deliberately targeting young children in an attempt to boost its "flagging recruitment targets", the Daily Telegraph reports.

But the accusations were met with outrage by one of Scotland’s most senior Army officers, who said it received numerous requests from schools for soldiers to attend classes but this was never used to recruit.

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