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Re: Strategic Defence Review: MoD budget cuts of 8% by 2015
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I'm really depressed today.Living where I do I have already seen a real decline in MOD places and jobs within this area .  |
Unfortunately, Maggy, the whole defence area has been similarly "right-sized" since the end of the Cold War; there were 100,000 personnel in the RAF when I was in (70's and early 80's) - 43,000 now (about to be reduced by another 5,000).
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