ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by Harry Black

Well here i am sat in Afghanistan waiting for the results. The board must of sat by now i hate this waiting game surley someone know's something if you do can you inbox me please. I really want to know cheers

HB, a bit like the rest of us then ! I spoke to my desk officer in Glasgow 2 weeks ago (and he is a mate) - no joy. It is the best kept secret apart from Nuke launch codes.

However rumour has it that they are looking to mag to grid more than the numbers announced in the DIN...so I reckon the only politically acceptable way to do that is let all the volunteers go (again rumour has it there are many more than original numbers required). Again, this is all rumour but it's good to talk !

If anyone does actually know anything please put us out of our misery


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the figures on the redundancy website on DII suggest that there are 302 too many volunteers for certain brackets and that 800 odd will be getting compulsary redundancy.
as a volunteer myself i dont really fancy my chances. i have been promoted since 28th feb but still remain eligable however my last 3 sjar's suggest that i should promote with the my last 2 coming off the board.
only 3 weeks to go.

Originally Posted by Once A Royal

the figures on the redundancy website on DII suggest that there are 302 too many volunteers for certain brackets.

I saw that also it works out at around 5 pax per rank/cap badge extra have applied,knowing my luck 100 of the 302 extra applicants will be in my rank/cap badge lol

In my trade and rank, Glasgow want to cut 50 of us who have served between 9 and 16 years.
As a non-volunteer, I've accepted that my days are numbered.
On the plus side, I've found out that learning credits will cover the fees for a 3 year First Degree and that I will also be eligible for a full grant. So I may become a very mature student - lock up your daughters!

They only want 15 in mine

Just looked at the paper work again and there is some disparity between numbers in my trade and group initially and what they now need i.e they wanted 13 now its 18 and its the same for the next rank up something tells me they are grabbing more as they have volunteered any ideas.

Perhaps a little bird has given them a peek at A2020 and they now know just how many they need.

Ihave now seen the update and yes there are more redundancies on this tranche they have bumped the numbers up in quite a few trades an there is an explanation why.