Army brass to be slashed.

We are top heavy, but any loss in the military is a sad one. Too many jobs going, so much experience lost. Be nice if they made it up within the lower ranks, sadly this won't be the case.
 
Like ALL pubic selectors.. too many chiefs not enough Indians. And like ALL public selectors many are chiefs not down to ability but time served.

Let's get rid of some of the chiefs and use the money for more Indians.
 
We all know the days when Britain was a superpower are long gone, we can't afford massive armed forces anymore and don't really have the need for them given we don't have an empire any more. Given that I can't help feeling the solution is to combine the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Airforce into a single command structure - think Israeli Defence Forces or US Marine Corps type structure. The inter-service rivalry we have just seems to cause more problems than it solves.
 
scorza said:
Given that I can't help feeling the solution is to combine the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Airforce into a single command structure - think Israeli Defence Forces or US Marine Corps type structure. The inter-service rivalry we have just seems to cause more problems than it solves.
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Do the US not have The Army, The Navy, The Air Force, The Marines and then national guard divisions as well? It isn't under Marine Corps structure, they are just a branch?
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Do the US not have The Army, The Navy, The Air Force, The Marines and then national guard divisions as well? It isn't under Marine Corps structure, they are just a branch?
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They do but the US marines is basically an armed forces in itself, with its own land, sea and airpower.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Also don't forget any Redundancy payments due. I saw a Lt Col leave with £150k payout and over £35k yearly pension during the last round.
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My constable friend in the police will retire early with similar figures. I don't begrudge him it, but darn it seems like a lot of money for 25 years of service.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
Thank god you're not in charge of our national defence.
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When in the last 50yrs have we needed trident! Oh right never! Especially more so where the threat isn't sovereign nations it's terrorists! They will just use a dirty bomb. There's no point in 2015 to spending £20bn on a weapon that won't ever be used, it doesn't deter terrorists or anyone else
 
IS is just one threat - we haven't used Trident because it is a deterrent - it is deterring well!

Ukraine, Russia, all this is going on on top of the terrorist threat.
 
ElliorR said:
Totally agree. If we had a nuke go off in the UK it's most likely to be terrorist related so who would we nuke back?
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All of the Middle East?
Pull out the oil companies first and then put them back in afterwards,business as usual. It will probably devaste our arms industry but someone has to suffer for the greater good.

We will of course fly our flags at half mast over lunchtime to show due respect.
 
Edrof said:
My constable friend in the police will retire early with similar figures. I don't begrudge him it, but darn it seems like a lot of money for 25 years of service.
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That's changing though. Those with 10 years or less to go still get the full 1987 pension. Those with more will work more, pay more and get less.
 
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