Recruiting more personnel: pay, accommodation, and trainable fitness

How would the armed forces recruit the people needed to fill their gaps?

Better pay and accommodation, plus extra training for applicants able to meet the job's demands after improving their initial fitness.

A panel follow-up asks how the proposed forces would obtain enough people. Clarke starts with pay and accommodation. He then suggests slightly lower initial physical entry thresholds, paired with more training to bring recruits up to the required fitness. He places greater weight on applicants' mental ability to learn the work. Personal experience of regaining fitness informs his argument, but the proposal does not define medical eligibility or operational standards. Another participant adds that the process of joining takes too long.