Originally Posted by
NutLoose
"The Ministry of Defence reportedly plans cuts to 14 ensembles as the UK government seeks savings that will avoid affecting frontline troops. Nobody would dispute that combat soldiers are more essential to defence than trumpeters yet military musicians represent a country’s face to the world."
Which does miss the point that they do deploy on ops
Musician on Ops - British Army Website
Exactly, and the way we are going will end up with a horribly divisive situation for Defence. Perceived ‘non-core’ roles will be cut from uniform and either made Reserve or contractor posts. The associated duties - Guard, deployments, weekend and extended hours requirements etc will however remain. Therefore you will end up with a smaller and smaller pool of military warfighters getting stitched constantly and a larger pool of limited commitment Reservists and contractors doing the ‘easy’ stuff. Doesn’t sound much like all of one force to me, but I guarantee this is the trajectory because we’ve already started down this route.