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Times Report - Cut to the Bone?

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Whats the betting that Cottesmore ends up being an Army camp in the future.

As for the Civil Servents, quite a few will have only relocated in the last year or so could be interesting to see what happens with respect to court cases etcOff Topic
 
Sammy said:
I dont think that will be a GR4 Tonka Sqn. I think it will just be crews that go for now, not a whole sqn.
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Unfortunatley squadrons get disbaned and reformed as is seen fit by the powers that be. Those that are needed will go elsewere, those surplus to requirements will be made redundant.
 
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They are already looking at replacing some RAF posts with MOD Civillians where I work currently as there are greater savings to be made by making RAF personnel redundant rather than MOD.

I don't believe there are enough posts available for everyone displaced through disbanding of squadrons or stations and redundancies are almost inevitable. Something to look forward to I suppose!
 
Looks like ''the few'' are going to become ''the fewer'', trouble is if the tories get in are they going to do anything differently ? probably not is the answer I suspect.
 
Nimrod chopped 12 months early, MRA4 brought in slower than previous. One Harrier sqn chopped with Cott shut. One tonka sqn chopped but no unit or sqn mentioned, probably decided next year.
 
duffman said:
Nimrod chopped 12 months early, MRA4 brought in slower than previous. One Harrier sqn chopped with Cott shut. One tonka sqn chopped but no unit or sqn mentioned, probably decided next year.
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Wonder if it will be an F3 Sqn disbanding a little bit early?
 
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BBC News has reported that the RAF will lose "the equivalent of" a Tornado sqn. If that's the case, I see that as the each of the current sqns giving up a couple of a/c each but retaining the same number of sqns. The Vulcan force done that in 1980 when the government ordered a similar cut. It meant that the two-winged master race protected their empires.
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They began retiring them in 1981, a number of them because the main spars were too corroded, the last few only survived in the tanker role after the Falklands war.
 
duffman said:
Nimrod chopped 12 months early, MRA4 brought in slower than previous. One Harrier sqn chopped with Cott shut. One tonka sqn chopped but no unit or sqn mentioned, probably decided next year.
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Just watched Ainsworth stammering, er'ing and um'ing his way through telling us that their will be no capability gap when the MR2 goes out of service early because we have Merlins and Hercules...This man just has no idea whatsoever.
 
Shows how far we have gone down. This was once one of the Great Offices of government.

Seeing this aimable village idiot ramble through a further death Kneel for our service is a humiliation.

Perhaps the 100 year project is coming to fruition?
 
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Vim_Fuego said:
Just watched Ainsworth stammering, er'ing and um'ing his way through telling us that their will be no capability gap when the MR2 goes out of service early because we have Merlins and Hercules...This man just has no idea whatsoever.
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Lets just hope those russian Akula's dont decide to start playing games in the Moray Firth.

I always wondered what those big tanks were under the Herc's wings - I thought they must be fuel tanks, but now it's so obvious that they're MAD equipment. And it must be dead easy to roll sonar buoys out the back.
 
Essentially folding the MR2 fleet without standing up the MR4 force will in some ways be like closing the station as what else will people do with no aircraft to operate? 2 sqns of aircrew milling around idly waiting for the white elephant that is Nimrod 2000 to become something like close to operational...This might be a canny way of closing ISK very slowly without seeming to make unpopular, vote losing statements on top of what has already been said...

Ainsworth is terrible...he's still stumbling along avoiding giving answers to any decent questions by attacking the question askers party politics then sitting down with the question ignored...knob!
 
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