ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Realy! Remind me again what Corps was the CDS

Cynical but love em or hate em the Gunners over the past decade have been brilliant at reinventing themselves and adapting to change better than other Corps mine included. Just thought I'd add that I had a cracking time at Masserene with 25 Tenko was great and the lads even better!


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Originally Posted by stinker

No, RLC is (not that I want to get into a my cut is bigger than yours arguement) losing 6 Regts.






I thought that 101 were a TA unit? If so you gain one.

Stinker - 101 became a "hybrid" a while back - Regular RHQ, a couple of regular sqns and then TA sqns added in the mix as well. RE TA has dropped the EOD role and is now just search.

To my mind RE "identity" has always been with your squadron, not the Regt "flag". So the comparisons with other capbadges that have kept lots of tiny units, against us that have big 3 or 4 squadron regiments is not comparing like with like.

I'm not sure what's going to happen to sub-units; didn't hear anything about a Sqn from 39 going. 25 going wasn't that bad given that in affect, we've only lost an HQ sqn there. There's going to be some changes to 12 group though, title change to Force Support so hopefully stepping away from the Cold War focus on air support. I'm not suprised about 28, amph has been dying a death for years, the rigs were very close to mothballing last year so looks like that is going to be a purely TA capability.

I did giggle when it was annouced that TA regiments are going to be closely affiliated to their regular counterparts. Just as well 39 is really close to where the TA air support regiments are. Oh right, they aren't and I can't see the T & S budget stretching to flying guys up to Kinloss for a weekend!

Not a sapper so wondering what the reasons are behind 24 going? I thought the idea was for UK to have a rapid reaction force? Surely 3 CDO must be a major part of this, would a brigade of this kind not need a large engineer component?

28's been pulling away from rigs for years and as a stand alone regt it was in the offing anyhow. Celles closed and fallys moving into hohne so the big garrison style towns were drawing in the waif and strays for ages. So as 28 is left on its own it's an expensive camp to keep, especially when it's only one sqn that runs them. You'd have to be blind to not see it coming I'm just surprised its not till 2015.

Originally Posted by postman_twit

Agreed reference RA. R Sigs only losing 1 Regiment too?????

The Corps will probably lose a second, albeit TA Regt RHQ, as well; remember, since 2010, the R Signals has lost 6 TA Regts out of 11 (31, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 40).

Originally Posted by Ethel_the_Aardvark

What I do find astonishing is how the Dropshorts have managed to escape with only losing 1 Regt.

They need all the Btys that they can muster, just so as they can drop a single round on target.