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Re: Strategic Defence Review: MoD budget cuts of 8% by 2015
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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).  |
It's no consolation though and don't forget it's not just army,navy and RAF personnel whose jobs are at stake..It's the people who help to keep the services functioning in the immediate area of MOD properties.Plus all that MoD land that becomes available is prime building and development land.This means an even higher concentration of population in an already overcrowded corner of the South..and I can already point to several former MOD sites that have been developed already in this town..Shame we don't have the infrastructure to match and aren't likely to either in the future.It's even worse in a peninsular town..
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