Major cuts announced to British Army

[happyslapper]

Details just announced:

- 17 Major units to disappear
- Reduction from 102 000 regular troops to 82 000
- Doubling of reserve (Territorial Army) to 30 000
- 11 000 compulsory redundancies likely

- 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to be dissolved
- 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) reduced to Company level ceremonial role.
- 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh (Royal Regiment of Wales) to be dissolved
- 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards) to be dissolved
- 3rd Battalion the Mercian Regiment (Stafforrds) to be dissolved

- 1st and 2nd Royal Rank Regiment to merge
- The Queens Royal Lancers and 9th/12th Lancers (Prince of Wales') to be merged

- 7th Signal Regiment to disband

- 24 Commando Engineer Regiment to disband
- 25 Engineer Regiment to disband
- 28 Engineer Regiment to disband
- 38 Engineer Regiment to disband
- 67 Works Group to disband

- 39 Regiment, Royal Artillery to disband
- 40 Regiment, Royal Artillery to disband

- 1 Logistics Support Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps to disband
- 2 Logistics Support Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps to disband
- 23 Pioneer Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps to disband
- 8 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps to disband
- 19 Combat Service Support Battalion to disband
- 24 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps to disband

- 101 Force Support Battalion, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, to transfer to the Territorial Army

- 5 Regiment, Royal Military Police to disband


- 1 and 9 Regiments, Army Air Corp to merge

[Arfah]

Shocking !

[Messiah UKF]

Jesus christ that's tough reading. That being said, some of the mergers at least are 'sensible' (pinch of salt to be taken) given the state of how we wage war these days.

[bravosixniner]

Ah, memories of the post Cold War 90s.

[Ballistic]

What a fvcking kick to the nuts. Bugger me it doesn't get much worse than that.

How the hell did it come to this!?

[SDL]

What a fvcking kick to the nuts. Bugger me it doesn't get much worse than that.

How the hell did it come to this!?

Simple, chronic mis-management of the MOD by the former government (and i guess before them) leaving it with a massive debt and a massive overspending mess that requires cuts and changes to stop it from going bust.

[Leaper]

Sad to hear.
British soldiers are some of the best I've ever trained with.

[Jdam1]

What a fvcking kick to the nuts. Bugger me it doesn't get much worse than that.

How the hell did it come to this!?

Like SDL said but you also had a budget cut by the UK treasury, it was a bit like giving the MOD a double budget cut.

[Az_esm]

Are there some exact numbers of tanks and etc?

[Dave242]

This is all to do with Blair and Brown leaving this country without a pot to piss in. This is what happens when you have a Socialist goverment, spending other peoples money. One day you have to pay the bill.

Dave

[gaijinsamurai]

Sad to hear.
British soldiers are some of the best I've ever trained with.

x2.
Great soldiers, and units with a lot of history and tradition.

[Michael F]

So the British Army is going to be just over a third the size of the United States Marine Corps?

Trippy.

[KDC]

So that's what a 20% cut looks like... Pretty savage. Though, is it just me or have Scotland got through relatively unscathed?

[The Armchair Soldier]

Are there any other countries out there that cut their military as severe as we do? It's ****ing sad.

[xav]

Are they cutting on the Army but leave the Navy and Air Force untouched ?