Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/1999/04/26/nerds_army_to_defend_queen/

Nerds Army to defend Queen & country

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By Tim Richardson

Posted in On-Prem, 26th April 1999 11:29 GMT

Stand by your modems, you miserable lot... The British Army is spending £500,000 -- the same price tag as a Tomahawk Cruise missile -- on a Web site to recruit soldiers. One in four of all enquiries the army gets from potential recruits now comes via the Net, and with a ground war in Kosovo becoming more likely, it looks like the army's gonna need them too. ®