View Full Version : Service families suffer as arms bills soar
Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,1298020,00.html)
SirToppamHat
6th Sep 2004, 08:28
No surprise there then.
Of course, with the reductions in our numbers (how I look forward to being able to do the job so much better and more efficiently with fewer people) , there is loads of money to be made by selling off the surplus Families Quarters .... Doh!
It will be interesting to see whether a member of the fairer sex in the chair (as suggested elsewhere in these forums - Patricia Hewitt for MoD? (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143679) ) brings a slight change of emphasis. It is one thing saying that our people are the most important asset, but there is little evidence of it when you look at the conditions many of the lower ranks are living in.
STH
Melchett01
7th Sep 2004, 23:34
Chicksands, in Wiltshire, will be the new headquarters of the intelligence corps.
Has anybody informed the Int Corps that their depot is moving? Or being clever chaps, do they know already??:confused:
The Nr Fairy
8th Sep 2004, 11:07
Maybe they'll just change the Chilmark signposts to Chicksands to confuse everyone . . .