When Will We Get Stability?
Is it me or have we just been in a constant state of flux since 1991? There have been so many reviews of structures, resources and real estate that no ones knows whether they are coming or going?
Surely, even with the demise of the Warsaw Pact and 9/11 someone could make a decision. It all appears to be constantly 'up in the air'. This base closing here, funding reduced there, this Sqn disbanding etc etc.
How does SABR suddenly get a whacking amount of money removed and re-named? Was all of the original staff work and requirements flawed? What has changed? If we are truly a resource driven armed forces then all you doctrine gurus can hang up your 'bibles' as it is pointless - and you are all daydreaming on what could be! Smell the coffee and look at what capabilities are really here and now.
Will there ever be a steady state where equipment projects, personnel and families knew where they stood in military life or is this just the way military life is going to be now.
I am out of here, so now shakes, but its amazing that now I have pulled my head out of my @rse and look around alot of the 'stress' in military life has very little to do with the physical Op Tours etc, but all of the periphery rubbish that is going on.
If I have heard the rumours correctly that there is yet another decision looming for estate rationalisation and more Sqn disbandments. How long is all this going to take (pulling teeth!) and if not true, then why doesn't someone stamp it out instantly? And is this the final rationalisiation or review or is the buoy going to be sailed around again in a couple of years when the next 'bright ideas' club has to make savings?