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11 young recruits get their marching orders
LEEDS lads are still joining the Army despite the perils of serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Eleven young men from the city will start training in the New Year after enlisting at the Leeds armed forces careers office.
They will take up a number of different careers with regiments around the world.
WO2 Steve Harriman, office manager at the careers office, said: "For 11 people to enlist on the same day is fantastic. The recruits will receive expert training as well as a good wage while they are doing it.
"The Army offers so many opportunities for men and women to learn skills and build on their knowledge."
Several of the enlistments will start their careers at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate.
They include James Hugh Adams who is joining the REME as an aircraft technician; Phillip Hopkinson and Ayden Lee Webster who are joining as infantry soldiers with The Rifles; Terence Waddington from Seacroft who is to be an infantry soldier in the Yorkshire Regiment; and former Prince Henry's Grammar School student Colin Richard Paxton from Otley, who is joining the REME as a vehicle mechanic.
The Royal Dragoon Guards will welcome George Henry Milner, Leon Francis Crampton and Jason Sutcliffe as tank crewmen. George is from Whinmoor and attended Boston Spa High School; while Leon went to Rodillian High and is from Lofthouse; and Jason went to Agnes Stewart School in inner city Leeds.
Carl Andrew Walker, who went to Crawshaw High School in Pudsey, is enlisting as a driver operator with the Royal Engineers and starts his training at ADC Bassingbourn.
Another Royal Engineers recruit is John-William Taylor Gage who will train as an armoured engineer at ATR Lichfield. John comes from Middleton, south Leeds, and studied at Joseph Priestley College.
Daniel Owen from Pontefract, a former St Wilfrid''s Catholic High School student, is joining the REME as an avionics technician and will start his career at ATR Pirbright.
The Army offers a choice of 140 trades and there are more than 13,000 Regular Army jobs and 6,000 Territorial Army vacancies on offer.
New recruits to the Regulars can earn from 1,047 per month when trained and TA recruits receive Regular Army base rates of pay.
The Army has launched a new on-line psychometric test called Pathfinder (www.armyjobs.mod.uk) so that would-be recruits can find out what best suits their personality type.
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