Lyneham saved
 

according to ITV Westcountry

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Announced that it will stay as a support base instead of closing in total.

For the RAF or the Army?

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.

Good, some sense at last if it's true.

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 :}

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?

Will Lyneham remain as an airfield, even in a limited capacity? An RLG for Brize?

I know, how about we put some helicopters there...

It's a shame the lodger units had to move, TMW, 1AMW could have saved a few quid leaving them put.

Neither lodger unit has moved. AMW are due to move Apr 12 and TMW Nov 12.

I bet they still move, both units do not need to be located on an airfield to operate.

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...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69...ds/Vulcan1.jpg

Talking of old relics...What'll happen to the Museum?

I also hear that the flying club might be able to stay - shame they left just a few hours ago! :ugh::ugh::ugh:

What army?

"Dad's Army" if you read the Future Reserves 2020 Paper.

About 40,000 TA with 80,000 regulars as I read it...