Hundreds of paratroopers have been banned from deployment in the Balkans as punishment after videos of an orgy taking place in a military barracks appeared.
General Sir Patrick Sanders, the new head of the army, said in a letter to generals and commanding officers that he was unwilling to “risk the mission or reputation of the British army” by sending them abroad. .
Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment will lose a medal and extra pay and use the month they should have been abroad to “reflect on where they have fallen below what we all expect from our army.”
The very unusual move comes less than a week after Sanders, the former head of Strategic Command, took over