Don’t scrap the TA!

Thursday 11th October 2007, 12:00AM BST.

A SOLDIER who has spent six months fighting in Afghanistan has hit back at suggestions that the Jersey Field Squadron should be scrapped.

Captain Nick Spratley, who served in the lawless Helmand province, fighting Taliban militants, says that Jersey’s TA unit does the Island proud both at home and abroad. He says that the TA are ‘ambassadors for Jersey’ when they fight alongside British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and carry out millions of pounds worth of volunteer work when at home in the Island. His comments come after Senator Stuart Syvret told the States that he would seek to have the TA’s £1m budget withdrawn in protest against the ‘illegal war in Iraq’.

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