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Everyone, just to be sure. Hence why we need Trident.
Army brass to be slashed.
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Everyone, just to be sure. Hence why we need Trident.
No he won't.
If he is a Constable, he will get a pension of around £23000 if he doesn't take a lump sum from his pension. If he takes a lump sum he will get around £135,000 and a reduced pension of around £17,000 per year (figures aren't exact but are near enough since they can fluctuate slightly.
Ivrytwr3 is about right with his figures above, since you can alter the lump sum taken.
As for the OP, if we have almost as many top brass as the US Army that is shocking. I'm all for removal at the top end to enable more staff at the bottom end.
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10 months to go to my 22yr point (military). Can't wait to qualify for my IP before they mess with it all again or they bin me during another round of SDSR!
I will be getting about half of what a civvy copper gets, but in 22yrs, not 30 and ours is non-contribution.
I will be getting about half of what a civvy copper gets, but in 22yrs, not 30 and ours is non-contribution.
Would be nice if some of the money saved were to be redirected to the lower plebs.
However, it won't.
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* If Ukraine had nuclear weapons, do you think it would be being invaded by Russian right now?
* Nuclear weapons deter state-sponsored terrorism, because if we discovered a state was involved we could turn their nation to glass.
* Nuclear weapons are broadly regarded as having ensured there has not been a major war since 1945.
Let me ask you this: the annual cost of Trident is about £2.5bn. The UK foreign aid budget is £10bn per year. If you're concerned about money, why not just cut £2.5bn from our aid budget.
Didnt work well with canada, little of the savings promised ever appeared and the examples you gave are inaccurate as another poster said. you still require separate command structures because the services do entirely different jobs. for joint exercises you just take who you need from those structures and put them together (EAW concept). It doesn't stop people working together.
oh and our armed forces aren't massive, Its entirely average sized, this whole "massive armed forces, cold war blah blah" stuff is rubbish. we cut from the cold war in the 90's and we've been more active ever since. Much like other public services we are bleeding manpower and experience whilst having more work to do. 5th largest economy - 27thish largest military.
NEM is out in april and a new SDR after the election, well within your 10 months. careful!
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Yeah, fortunately they have taken the recommendation from the Lord Hutton report and allowed Grandfather rights ie i will get 21yrs 3 months on the old scheme (AFPS75) and the remainder on the new (AFPS15).
Yep they don't particularly need to match up in a 1:1 ratio mate.
Especially since the US is #1 economy #1 military, its also far lower down for civil rights and healthcare amongst many more.
Army for officers represents the next thing after university or boarding school for the over priviledged.
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Training is carried out by senior NCOs, not officers.
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Yep , mine was non/contributory as well , 7/22nd of a full service pension is 4k a year for me , all adds up. Think I have a 10k lump sum coming as well.
The money you would have to put into a personal fund now even for that small amount is frightening for Mr average .
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Totally agree, lets get our affairs in order. We are in debt up to our ears and yet hand out every year.
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The US Marine Corps is a branch of the US Navy. The US still has an air force and army.
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Indeed, suffer us all.
Not police, but my average salary scheme, started at 6.5%, crept up over the years, is currently set at basic 13.5% with an extra 3.67% or so for added years.
Average salary.
Doubling of contributions.
No additional benefit.
Quite a kicker.
However as he stated, the USMC is also a standalone force with it's own Air, Land and Sea units so it can operate without the need for the others but only in a very localised area, not globally.
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I understand that but it is still part of a tri service military with the rivalry that goes with it.
That said, does the marine corps not need US Navy carriers to fly their F18s from ?
What about the other array of requirements for different types of warfare that the Officers would be responsible for/specialist in? Am I along the right lines or is it a case (as is being implied) there's officers sat round not doing a lot?
They have their own LHD carriers for the AV-8B however I agree that a tri-service military is better than than one combined unit.