It's happened several times: six Royal Welsch Fusillier pallbearers were turned away from a pub where they tried to get a coffee after burying a comrade who had been killed in Afghanistan. I think the whole thing is wrong with some sort of lee way given to Publicans and troops.
My opinion is that if you trust the troops enough to risk their lives to defend us, you trust them enough not to get pissed in uniform and bring the service into disrepute. The MOD is a grown up ministry however and I suppose they have their reasons.
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