Maybe the old-boys power of the Cavalry in Horseguards has some clout to save the MBTs?
I would love to see how much more integration of AH and SH the civil servants think they can achieve, in addition to JHC and all the joint postings between fleets...
Maybe they believe that one set of engineers can maintain
all AH/SH/floaty stuff at one big airbase outside Birmingham. Look good on a balance sheet at least...