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Initial Training Group News
 Soldiers are voting for each other to receive the Army's first medal to be allocated democratically. The Soldier's Medal, for recruits completeing their basic training is awarded on the basis of a ballot.
It is intended for the recruits with whom peers would most want to be on the battlefield, and who best embodies the Army's "core values".
Brigadier David Homer, The Commander of the Army's Initial Training Group, said: "I got the idea from my children playing rugby. They have a coach's player of the year and a player's player. It's the player's player that the children all wanted to win."
A secret ballot is held amongst a platoon-of between 30 and 50 recruits-at the end of basic training, which lasts between 14 and 42 weeks. To win the Soldiers' Medal, a recruit must receive a mojority of votes from their platoon. Since the idea was introduced late laste year, only eight recruits have received the medal.
[Source: Catriona Davies]
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