The Black Watch has its origins more than 300 years ago in the Highlands of Scotland Photo: REUTERS
Army Redundancies To Roll On For Many Years -- The Telegraph
Renowned Army units including The Parachute Regiment and The Black Watch are under threat as defence chiefs prepare to make deep cuts.
An announcement of job losses this week will be followed by annual rounds of morale-sapping redundancies for the next eight years.
Between five and eight of the Army's 36 infantry battalions could be abolished.
Among areas where the axe could fall, a question mark is hanging over the future of The Parachute Regiment – which consists of three regular battalions, one of which operates solely with the special forces, as well as a territorial unit.
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My Comment: And people wonder why morale in the U.K. military is low?
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Its not just what is being sacrificed here. It is also what would have to be sacrificed elsewhere without sacrifice here.
Consider the observation Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
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