Answer to written parliamentary question reveals Ministry of Defence figures showing 13,522 are not fit to fight
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More than 10,000 serving in the armed forces are “not medically deployable”, according to figures from the Ministry of Defence .
The defence minister, Alistair Carns, revealed in a written parliamentary question that throughout the military, 99,560 service members are medically fully deployable, with 14,350 having limited deployability and 13,522 medically not deployable.
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