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Old 27th Sep 2010, 18:36
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Neil Porter
 
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I think its awful to keep cutting our armed forces in general, and i think Cameron and his brigade should look into the future and realise we need a decent level of services support - not to reduce it. If its going to be bad as people fear it could be, then why not all 3 services just 'down tools' and strike then he'll have a problem.
Seriously i hope we don't end up with a force thats less than capable of holding its own (which i guess it won't come to that), its such a shame to see continual closures and disbandments.

As regards the Puma non upgrade & scrapping as well halving the new Chinook order as was reported in one of the papers, i thought the idea for SHF was to increase the levels of helo support as that is why we took on additional Merlins from the Danes? (that is right isn't it??).. sorry just my pennys worth - just feel sorry for you all!
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