Are Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers exploited?
THE Ministry of Defence was attacked yesterday for paying out almost £500,000 to a typist diagnosed with a form of repetitive strain injury.
The revelation has led to military chiefs being accused of treating soldiers in combat zones as second-class to civilian staff and service personnel with desk jobs.
The award is almost 30 times that given to a soldier with comparative wounds resulting from combat and nine times more than service personnel would get for losing a leg.
Yesterday it emerged it is not the only big claim handed out to backroom workers – as new figures revealed a civilian worker was paid more than £200,000 for a back strain caused by lifting a printer.
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