The announcement that, presumably on grounds of cost, the Territorial Army are not to undertake any training for six months emphsises even more than we shall soon approach the point that we would struggle to defend ourselves if attacked. (I was going to say that our defence capability would be like that of Switzerland, but I remembered that adults there do at least have regular rifle practice!)
Full time soldiers with inadequate gear and support and we now have the TA, already halved, becoming more like "Dad's Army". The TA served with distinction in some of Blair's wars, but unless their training is soon restored it is difficult to see any further contribution.
Is the plan to make the TA something like an unpaid version of the CPSOs? At the moment they will be well short of the professional army.
I suppose that we should not surprised. How long ago was it that paratroopers could not do training drops because there were insufficient planes?
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