RIP TA

**Picasso** · 09-10-2009, 19:15

Originally Posted by Jacques_Bustard

Originally Posted by 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....

**Idrach** · 09-10-2009, 19:16

Originally Posted by 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.)

**twiggylad** · 09-10-2009, 19:22

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.

**Jacques_Bustard** · 09-10-2009, 19:23

Originally Posted by Picasso

Originally Posted by Jacques_Bustard

Originally Posted by 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....

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

**Yeo_Man** · 09-10-2009, 19:23

Sadly I suspect this is no Wah and the way I hear it all budgets are effectively withdrawn forthwith..........C1 may still be possible.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

**stapd** · 09-10-2009, 19:28

Fingers crossed this isn't the case - not exactly the smartest way to make 'one army' a reality.

Seems like they really could be making full use of the 'casual labour' status.

**Yeo_Man** · 09-10-2009, 19:39

I suspect "one army" is the least of any ones considerations, I think this is more about "any army".........desperate times :(

YM

**Bravo_Bravo** · 09-10-2009, 19:55

Originally Posted by OldSnowy

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.

RTCs?

**twiggylad** · 09-10-2009, 19:59

Originally Posted by Bravo_Bravo

RTCs?

What will they train for if the units have no training and therefore no one there? Where will they go?

This is bollocks.

**Yeo_Man** · 09-10-2009, 20:05

I think some of the regular staff at all levels are wondering where this turn of event will leave them?

YM

**slick** · 09-10-2009, 20:08

Is this the MODs way of saying if you`re willing to volunteer for ops you`ll get trained, if you`re not up for ops then bugger off ?

**twiggylad** · 09-10-2009, 20:13

Originally Posted by slick

Is this the MODs way of saying if you`re willing to volunteer for ops you`ll get trained, if you`re not up for ops then bugger off ?

All TA training mate.

**Yeo_Man** · 09-10-2009, 20:15

While I think the "train on mobilisation" option will become the norm in the medium term, this is all about baleing out the sinking boat that is the UK defence budget.

YM

**stapd** · 09-10-2009, 20:20

Hmmm....

Pity the TA isn't a high enough profile entity for the dribbling masses - there's a damn sight more to be saved if they were to instead say 'sorry sunshine, we're out of money, no government handouts for <insert name useless fricking bleeding heart/quango/lazy bum organisation or cause here> for the foreseeable'.

Sadly I fear the current shower of sh1ts in government still hold out some hope they can buy off the dimmer masses, whereas they've realised by now there's no hope in hell anyone connected with the military would vote them in next time.

I think I need to go have some more of the medicine - nurse!

[edit to add the other half of the paragraph]