RECAPPED BADGING OF 3R welsh

[BennytheBall]

Alan, you are quite right about 1000 military staff being deployed for recruiting purposes Capita/MOD call it OP FORTIFIED I know there quite of RLC (regulars) attached to the Outreach Team (Old ART 33 team) and the AFCOs at Wrexham and Bangor also the R Welsh support Teams (old DIVRO team)

[ap1]

Cheers Benny, understandable I suppose, senior officers and politicians have staked their jobs on its success, so they will chuck anything at it to make it work…..As we know everything has a cost. Sadly the media is strangely silent, unlike during the G4S/Olympic fiasco. 1000 soldiers, now doing recruiting jobs that have been outsourced to private industry. I wonder if they will be fined and publicly bollocked and who pays the bill?

Personally I want this to fail at an early stage, until we have an absolute calamity like that, Politicians, civil servants and spineless senior commanders will continue to reduce our armed forces as just figures on a balance sheet, expressed as profit or loss.

[dcdl12976]

Its not only recruitment thats in this situation guys, DE and S procurement is in the process of potentially being transferred to a GOCO (Government owned contractor run organisation however the latest is that one of the two bidders (Serco) has pulled out bloody good job considering the fiddles it has been doing across the government contracts it already has, LCS (Defence logistics) will undoubtedly be under private hands by the end of April 2015 unless the in house bid comes up trumps (not holding my breath on that). Defence support group (ABRO, Workshops call it what you will was due to be in private hands before Xmas but all has gone quiet on that.

The whole thing is why i am retiring early i.e. April 27 2015 because i just will not work for a private concern running the defence area in which i work, this means i will retire at 62 1/2 and live on my MOD pension (not the gold plated one as the media seems to think) till i am 65 it will be a struggle but i am determined to manage and im afraid when my manager asked me what they were going to do about my work when i retired (no recruitment to replace people leaving you see) my reply was simply that it was not going to bother me in the slightest and it was there problem.

No good them coming to ask me to train someone else in my rather specialst job either because my memory aint very good and i will have forgotten.