RIP TA

**Muff_Coupling** · 09-10-2009, 20:21

Originally Posted by twiggylad

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.

Give us your MOD "source" or shut up.

**Yeo_Man** · 09-10-2009, 20:30

Muff

No need this will become horribly clear over the next few days. However for the Regulars keeping watch in this forum, I would bear in mind the current position of the CGS that general warfighting is OVER.

If one takes this premise then standby, the British Army maybe about to uindergo significant change.

YM

**smith123** · 09-10-2009, 20:33

Just googled it.....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6868921.ece

**brecon_billy** · 09-10-2009, 20:34

All of our training is geared to Ops anyway. Guys are very explicitly told that if they are going on Ops then they will get the training. Indeed we have been told that you MUST attend certain training weekends in order to deploy on Ops. No weekends no tour.

Anyone that is not planning to volunteer for a tour is now classed as an enabler and will get the majority of the shite taskings.

Anyway thats the word from our headshed.

If they do indeed shut the place down for 6 months then expect only the true hard core attenders to reattend. Everyone else will have found other things to do with their time. In my experience once somebody gets out of the TA Habit for 6 months it's very hard to get them to come back in.

Anyway I detect a WAH! from the original poster as our weekends have already been chopped to the bone

**Werewolf** · 09-10-2009, 20:37

Just TA or are the RMR, RNR and RAFR bending over and grabbing their ankles as well?

**kieranhw100** · 09-10-2009, 20:40

Not an MOD source but here's a link to a news site.here

**Cavalier** · 09-10-2009, 20:45

Hmmmmm! The Times are either making a very broad assumption, or they know something us mere mortals don't as of yet!

**kieranhw100** · 09-10-2009, 20:48

Yes that was my initial assumption, will just have to wait out and see what comes of this.

**western** · 09-10-2009, 20:51

Interesting article here: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htl.../20091009.aspx

**Cavalier** · 09-10-2009, 20:52

The Land Force budget of the Army has been cut by Â£54 million, and the TA is the first to be affected. The huge cut in TA spending will mean that the weekend warriors will not be paid. â€œThey are paid to go training, and if there is no training, they wonâ€™t get paid,â€ a Ministry of Defence official said.

Source: The Times Online.

A bit of an (bold) ambiguous statement!

**polar** · 09-10-2009, 21:54

YOU MEAN I CAN'T WHINGE ON ARRSE ANYMORE !!!!!!! HEH, I WAS ONLY DOING A TEMP BREAK FROM WHINGING NOT A PERMANENT ONE....

AT LEAST GIVE MSR ONE LAST CHANCE TO MODUR8 DA 4UM ONF MOR

**extrader** · 09-10-2009, 22:01

The MOD comment is disengenuous to say the least. It implies that operational spending will be unaffected ergo the rest of the spending is non-operational therefore non-essential. This suggests you have a TA where you only train for operations, presumably a matter of months before you go. All the other time (four years) you are not paid and do no training.

My view is that if the above is true it will be the end of the TA. Who would join? Or have I missed something.

**Trotsky** · 09-10-2009, 22:13

If these measures are neccessary then really the money should be coming from elsewhere within the military... the stuff thats really froth, Kings Troop, Public duties, Horse of the year show, possibly Adventerous Training.

I think closing down operational units for 6 months is folly, because many of them wont reopen.

trotsky

**stapd** · 09-10-2009, 22:21

Originally Posted by Trotsky

If these measures are neccessary then really the money should be coming from elsewhere within the military... the stuff thats really froth, Kings Troop, Public duties, Horse of the year show, possibly Adventerous Training.

I think closing down operational units for 6 months is folly, because many of them wont reopen.

trotsky

Indeed, I fear you are not too far wrong... I fear I'm starting to feel a bit tinfoil hat on this, but there's been a few people on here forecasting a scorched earth policy from the current shower before they get forceably ejected from power.

I guess this is very very breaking news, but I'm surprised no-one else has picked up on this.

I really can't see how even the smarmiest tw@ PR type in MoD could say with a sincere face that this wouldn't have a crushing impact.

**extrader** · 09-10-2009, 22:23

Trotsky
That is what seems curious. The inefficiency and slack budgeting in the regular system makes me a little vexed that the first slash is in the MTD budget.

ET