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TheWizard,
Not quite.
Lyneham is to be the new home of the Defence Technical Training Centre that was going to be housed at St. Athan.
This will see an initial 1500 staff stationed there from 2014 as 1 SoTT moves in from Cosford, the SAE from Arborfield Garrison and the Navy from HMS Sultan.
Not quite.
Lyneham is to be the new home of the Defence Technical Training Centre that was going to be housed at St. Athan.
This will see an initial 1500 staff stationed there from 2014 as 1 SoTT moves in from Cosford, the SAE from Arborfield Garrison and the Navy from HMS Sultan.
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I disagree, no sense at all.
Cosford is centrally located with good road and rail links and can still be developed. What a waste of money relocating.
Send the Hercs back there, the drone of the flying skip is horrendous
Cosford is centrally located with good road and rail links and can still be developed. What a waste of money relocating.
Send the Hercs back there, the drone of the flying skip is horrendous
12 twists per inch,
It may be central but it's tiny compared to Lyneham and in no way could accommodate the Army from Aborfield and the Navy from Sultan on top of what is there already.
It was all going to move to St. Athan anyway so now it is just moving to Lyneham instead. Hardly a waste of money as the closure of Gosport and Arborfield will save a considerable amount.
Cosford is destines to be an Army base with units returning from Germany so it will be developed, after a fashion.
I wonder if the airfield will remain in use for the UAS/AEF?
It may be central but it's tiny compared to Lyneham and in no way could accommodate the Army from Aborfield and the Navy from Sultan on top of what is there already.
It was all going to move to St. Athan anyway so now it is just moving to Lyneham instead. Hardly a waste of money as the closure of Gosport and Arborfield will save a considerable amount.
Cosford is destines to be an Army base with units returning from Germany so it will be developed, after a fashion.
I wonder if the airfield will remain in use for the UAS/AEF?
Stay open as an airfield? Why not? RAF Halton stayed open as an airfield and even had some big aircraft land there in its time for the Junior Techs - even on a grass strip! The technical students got to crawl all over them and got some brilliant training - checkout these Vulcans and Canberra at Halton...
