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2013-11-24 Britain

New report bashes UK volunteer Territorial Army.

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-24 12:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 [A]lthough the headline rate of pay for reservists is marginally lower than regular soldiers, the true cost of sending them into action greatly increases when training for battle-readiness is taken into consideration.The study found that over a 10-year period it would cost £2,910 a week to deploy a reservist, more than double the £1,258 for a regular soldier.

Logic dictates that, the better a reservist is trained, the lower the level of casualties of both the reservists and regulars, and lower the level of material losses.

Considering the lack of consideration for the former (and the latter not thought about at all,) one assumes that logic has taken a very long furlough.

Posted by Pappy 2013-11-24 14:03|| 2013-11-24 14:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Notice if you will, the cost and lengthy time required of training raw recruits is not mentioned. No mention made as well of the number of experienced veterans retained in the Territorials.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-24 14:19|| 2013-11-24 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 If those who count beans used logic, they'd eventually figure out that the growing cost of military aircraft versus the defense budget would project a point where the military could only afford one aircraft which could be shared on alternating days between the air force and navy, with leap day given to the marines.

Note to bean counters - it's better to error and have a ton too much ablative material on your reentry shield than a pound too little.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-24 15:32|| 2013-11-24 15:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I doubt the Marines would ever accept an aircraft adopted by Army or USAF P2k. But to Marine's credit, they can probably pay for any aircraft they want by continuing to avoid the Army and USAF Uniform Board fiascos.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-24 15:46|| 2013-11-24 15:46|| Front Page Top

#5 P2K: said another way --

"Quantity has a quality all its own."

Posted by Steve White 2013-11-24 17:09|| 2013-11-24 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The scam is that all of these extra costs were preventable. The prior Tory government slashed training for the Territorials "in order to save costs." I remember wondering what that hell they thought the units would be good for.

All they have to do is train the Territorials to the old Cold War standard, and the problem will disappear.

Posted by Frozen Al 2013-11-24 18:08|| 2013-11-24 18:08|| Front Page Top

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