Multiple serving members of the UK armed forces have come forward after the recent resignations to highlight how skint everyone is.
We have withheld the names of all the service members who spoke to Newsishy for their own protection.
We asked them how the funding shortages have affected them.
Army - Lance Corporal: It’s insane, we are given 3 bullets each and told to use them as a last resort. We’re making catapults from branches and our underwear elastic, we’ve gotten pretty good at it.
Navy - Petty Officer: Something has got to change. It’s embarrassing, my team had to land on an island using pink flamingo Lilo’s the other day, the landing craft had a hole in it.
RAF - Squadron Leader: We flew a mission in the gulf yesterday using a fucking spitfire we had to borrow from a museum. The crew had to fill it up at the petrol station as there was no fuel on base.
Newsishy spoke to a source at the Ministry of Defence and asked how bad it is?
“It’s the worst it’s ever been. There’s no money for anything after we pay the wages. We have frontline soldiers wearing flipflops into battle. Entire squadrons were ordered to jump the barriers on the tube to get anywhere.”
What can be done to improve the situation?
“We need billions of pounds, if they don’t pay I recommend you start learning Russian.”
