WB, I only know from the experiences related to me by the members of my old Son, 664. There are others who have greater knowledge than I though I do have some replies from my then MP and the then minister for reserve forces. I would suggest that someone on here with administrative and organisational capabilities could collate all our seperate recollections. I will over the next while try and sieve through this massive thread to see what I can glean, but hey, don't hold your breath. It is up to each of to contact/re-contact our MPs and ministers in who we might have communicated in the past. I don't think ministers who have made erroneous/untruthful statements in the HoC take kindly to having been led up the garden path by senior military officers and pliable civil servants.
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