{"id":380356,"date":"2018-10-10T05:09:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-army-to-pay-former-drug-taking-soldiers-to-return\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T05:09:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:09:20","slug":"presstv-uk-army-to-pay-former-drug-taking-soldiers-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-army-to-pay-former-drug-taking-soldiers-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK army to pay former drug-taking soldiers to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The British Ministry of Defense has contacted thousands of former soldiers who failed drugs tests and asked them to return with an additional one-off payment of \u00a310,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The British newspaper, the <em>Mail <\/em>on Sunday, reported that soldiers expelled following drug offences were being re-recruited by MoD officials, attracting them back with &#8220;golden hello&#8221; payments.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Ministry did confirm that payments are being offered to former soldiers, but only in some cases to specialist personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the troops could return to active duty at the same rank but did not specify that the payments were only available to personnel re-joining in specialist roles.<\/p>\n<p>High-profile Falklands War veteran, Simon Weston, told the paper he was &#8220;truly appalled&#8221;, adding drugs are &#8220;incompatible with military life&#8221; and &#8220;soldiers should know that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;That troops have been discharged for taking drugs can qualify for jobs which come with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/09\/576517\/UK-army-to-pay-former-drugtaking-soldiers-to-return\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Ministry of Defense has contacted thousands of former soldiers who failed drugs tests and asked them to return with an additional one-off payment of \u00a310,000. The British newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, reported that soldiers expelled following drug offences were being re-recruited by MoD officials, attracting them back with &#8220;golden hello&#8221; payments. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}