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Feb 9, 2023 29 min

Should we stop calling veterans ‘heroes’?

from BFBS Sitrep

Servicemen and women, along with veterans, are often called heroes – it’s well intentioned, but is that label helpful or harmful. Sitrep talks to a US psychologist who says it could drive veterans towards lower paid ‘selfless’ jobs, a leading military psychiatrist and a founder of the charity Help for Heroes. The UK is promising to train Ukrainian fighter pilots, but says it can’t send fighter jets any time soon, so is there any point in the training and can the UK actually deliver it? And the Chinese ‘spy’ balloon that has been shot down by the US Air Force might seem like ancient technology, but we explain why the UK is one of the countries looking at balloons as part of the military future.

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