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RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:58 pm
Author: twiggylad
All training scrapped in the current financial year - straight from MOD.

Stand down till May 2010. Shocked

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:05 pm
Author: Bravo_Bravo Location: Training Wing, 3 MI. ( not really )
Sho' ting.

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:09 pm
Author: Muff_Coupling
CGS/CinC give you a call did they?

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:09 pm
Author: twiggylad

Bravo_Bravo:

Sho' ting.

That's suspended too.

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:11 pm
Author: merriman Location: In a wet cold field

twiggylad:

All training scrapped in the current financial year - straight from MOD.

Stand down till May 2010. Shocked

So I take it Bullsh*t Bob told you in person?

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:12 pm
Author: Cavalier
The duty rumour is that Her Madge sent him a text!

[edited for being a one-hand-typing mong]

Last edited by Cavalier on Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:14 pm; edited 1 time in total

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:13 pm
Author: twiggylad
No wah unfortunately. Sad

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:13 pm
Author: Jacques_Bustard Location: On my arrse

twiggylad:

Bravo_Bravo:

Sho' ting.

That's suspended too.

Classic

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:14 pm
Author: therealbigdizzle Location: Landan
6 posts to his name... let's not take too much notice.

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:29 pm
Author: doublecrease Location: RSM's in tray
It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:41 pm
Author: twiggylad

therealbigdizzle:

6 posts to his name... let's not take too much notice.

Don't then.

Wait for your unit to tell you, although i suspect the papers will pick this up over the weekend.

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:49 pm
Author: STILTS Location: Top of a hill
WAh Shield off

Funny that as there is nothing listed here:

Mod news linky

Stilts

Wah Shield back on!

I detect a very poor WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:49 pm
Author: lacrabat Location: Losing it...
Be a shorter Lord Mayors Parade then, unless they pack it out with more spackers and efnic diversity mongs.......

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:59 pm
Author: OldSnowy Location: Noyades Manor, Cawston
Woe, Woe, and Thrice Woe........

Although I cannot confirm twiggylad's announcement, I can say that pretty shortly, unless your training is directly linked to Ops, it will cease. Stop. Desist. You can still turn up, I suppose, but don't expect to be paid for it.

In case you haven't noticed, this Government has spent all our money, and all our children's money, and borrowed against our grandchildren's earnings.

The MOD in particular is hard hit because:
a) it is fighting a war/insurgency/insectSurrection/Civil War/ whatever you like to call it, and
b) it is not about to get a penny more from the Treasury. Ergo, to fight the war even halfway 'properly', it means taking money from everywhere else. This means the TA, as well as many many other areas. The reasons for this late shift in priorities are easy enough to discern. Firstly, there's an election due next year, and secondly, there's an election due next year. Expect more knee-jerk quick fixes for the next six months.

Don't book a Spring Break on the back of TA earnings, is all I'm saying....

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:11 pm
Author: Jacques_Bustard Location: On my arrse

doublecrease:

It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

Anyone informed the Regular Army of that?

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:15 pm
Author: Picasso

Jacques_Bustard:

doublecrease:

It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

Anyone informed the Regular Army of that?

Quieten down now in the cheap seats. Just take your compulsory swine flu vaccine that will weaken your immune system and kill you shortly. With no armed forces and no health care workers it will be easy to finish most of the rest of the population off.
Regular army? Pah! Surplus to requirements.
Now where the fukc is my tin foil hat....

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:16 pm
Author: Idrach Location: Home, for a while.

OldSnowy:

Although I cannot confirm twiggylad's announcement, I can say that pretty shortly, unless your training is directly linked to Ops, it will cease. Stop. Desist. You can still turn up, I suppose, but don't expect to be paid for it.

Had that run against me for the next unit w/e. Luckily, I missed the previous version of this because I was deployed and SOPs say min 1/yr for my role to be deployable ... And that was just the T&S - I'm well off hitting my MTD limit (having had all of them this year out of the op budget not the Bde one.)

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:22 pm
Author: twiggylad
Can units survive 6 months sans training and expect people to turn up to whatever is in store next year?

Looks like we will be be the credit crunch's first public casualty.

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:23 pm
Author: Jacques_Bustard Location: On my arrse

Picasso:

Jacques_Bustard:

doublecrease:

It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

Anyone informed the Regular Army of that?

Oh * that was frightening! Would you believe my job is an immunisation co-ordinator and swine flu vaccination currently my number one task.

Re: RIP TA

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:23 pm
Author: Yeo_Man Location: Why do you want to know?
Sadly I suspect this is no Wah and the way I hear it all budgets are effectively withdrawn forthwith..........C1 may still be possible.

I'll get the lights !!!!!!

YM

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