I see that the MoD's jolly clever idea of recruiting reservists isn't going
too well.....
The latest Ministry of Defence manning figures show the number of Army reservists rose from 19,290 to just 19,310 despite a multi-million pound recruitment campaign.
The MoD insists it is still on track to grow the Army’s reserve forces from 19,000 to 30,000 by 2019, as the number of regular troops is cut by 20,000.
Growing, re-equipping and retraining the Army’s reserve forces is a cornerstone of the Coalition’s cost-cutting defence reforms.
Hence all these expensive reservist recruiting adverts on TV, I guess?
No doubt this will be of interest after the General Election when the next round of defence cuts is examined.....
