The Shrinking British Army

New Year Lay-Offs: Army To Fire 8,000 Soldiers In 'Fast-Track' Redundancies And Sackings Of Over-45s -- Daily Mail

* The cut will reduce the Army to 86,000 - its smallest since the 1700s
* A further 4,000 soldiers will go by 2020 in the huge cutbacks
* Every regiment of the Regular Army will be hit with only the Special Forces protected from lay-offs
* Under a controversial new proposal, British Army officers will be forced to retire at 45 – ten years earlier than at present

Eight thousand British soldiers – many serving on the front line in Afghanistan – will be told days after Christmas that they are to lose their jobs.

Redundancy notices will be sent to servicemen and women telling them their careers are over as part of sudden speeded-up cutbacks by the Ministry of Defence.

The Army has already been shaken by the announcement of a swathe of cuts, which included the loss of historic regiments and the prospect of a gradual reduction in personnel over the next eight years.

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My Comment: Talk about being a shell of it's former self .... at this rate (and there will be even more cuts) there will be nothing left by the 2030.