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The Power of Fill Your Boots; Real or imagined?

As the thread title. Is this an effective way to dare I say it embarrass the Army into looking after troops' welfare?

Flash to bang time <24hrs. Pretty impressive if this is actually down to FYB.

spaz Sep 13, 2017 Read More Replies: 278
CGS: Regular Reserve to be called up to augment Army

Breaking on twitter - CGS has confirmed in Chatham House speech plan to call up Regular Reserves to augment army. No word on whether this mandatory or voluntary.

If after multiple years of 'Army 2020' the end result is that you are having to call up to Regular Army Reserve to fill holes in manpower, then that is a fairly damning indictment on what a failure Army 2020 has been.

jim30 Sep 11, 2017 Read More Replies: 192
Ships & SF Helos to be scrapped in new defence cuts
Latest from todays times (behind paywall) is
- 2 MCMV to go several years earlier than planned,
- entire Lynx SF force to go,
- exercises in Kenya and Canada to be reduced and other cuts likely.
This is probably just the beginning...
jim30 Sep 7, 2017 Read More Replies: 238

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