Monitored Alarm Systems

As a former soldier, I often had difficult tasks to do under pressure - but I still understand don 't, the phone hackers

Serving in the British Army, ignore couldn 't the News of the World. You could usually find you a copy of the police stations and cook houses. At surgery, even thousands of miles away in Iraq and Afghanistan, it could be found nestled between the bullets and radios. The big red flash across the top, the provocative headline and the photo of some football players caught cheating celeb or struggling with their weight was a familiar sight in the hands of a soldier. How long this continues remains to be seen.

Aside from the celebs and footballers these papers would be a serious tone that behind our boys. You 'd be in our corner - in the fight for us what the squaddie a mouth piece and the paper strength. After hacking revelations, the question arises: how much of this was insincere? When the sun honored our boys with Millie, when the News of the World handed out toys for our boys and pushed the government's military covenant in the law (a public health priority, and no council tax during operations among other benefits) to anchor with his Justice For The Brave campaign.

How much of it was really for our guys? Soldiers make the news because it is a remarkable work that they need not only our boys, but girls as well as to befall dangerous places where violent acts on them, or they can go on there may be others. In other words, they 're very newsworthy. The sun gave my friend Andy Reid, a triple amputee in Afghanistan, one injured Millie. I don 't think News International was insincere in honor of soldiers like Andy, but I think it was done to sell newspapers.

I was more saddened than shocked by the revelations NoW. I can understand the pressure of work want to get results and bending the rules. I 'm sure we all understand that much. During my time as a British soldier was often given a job that I had to do something hard, and I had to do it, because life does go on me. How was I to do the job for me in a great part, if I was monitored.

I would do to great lengths to get the job, but there was one point where I would stop, and that was something that bored me in the Army during basic training: the values ??of the British Army. I look back now on those values ??- selfless commitment, courage, discipline, integrity, loyalty, respect for others. Of these one stands today, Integrity - "\ the quality of moral honesty and strong principles," \, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

I can not think of Rebekah Brooks dispatching its soldiers to get the story and in the exercise of their work will be relentless, but how far is too far? We 've had Milly Dowler, the Soham families and soldiers now who have lost their lives. What is next? If the paper is only to supply the demand for us, the hungry British public, or is there something seriously wrong with the values ??at News International?

I can imagine the order being given to get a story and the reporter or private investigator being hungry for the story, eager to please a boss or looking to make a name for themselves pushing those boundaries. What I can't imagine is that same person sitting in their office, about to infiltrate the private telephone messages and lives of the families who have lost children, and thinking that it's fine, that there is integrity in what they are doing.

This happened at the Brooks 's see, and there were calls have to go for it. A look at News International 's position, it seems, that won' t happen. It depends on the integrity and do what 's right. I 've lost friends in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I can' t imagine that the person may ignore the "respect the privacy of the family at a time like this" statements and tap into her life only Print a few words. I hope David Cameron has the integrity to see the investigation through.