The soldier’s song the Army doesn’t want you to hear.
Officers threatened with punishment over lyrics about lack of kit and ‘dying in the first wave’.
A British Army major faces punishment after recording a song that ridicules the state of the armed forces.
The lyrics of Dying in the First Wave mock Britain’s military for being “a little bit s---” and predicts soldiers will all die “in the first wave” of a war.
It was recorded by an officer attending a training course in Shrivenham, Wiltshire, designed to prepare soldiers and Royal Marines for promotion to the rank of major.
The Telegraph understands the song enraged Army chiefs, and attendees of the 26-week course were threatened with failure by senior commanders until the songwriter was found.
A second song was then released, apologising for saying the Army didn’t have “enough kit on air, land and sea” and accusing military bosses of having “no sense of humour”.
