Armed Forces To 'Axe 3,000 More Jobs Next Year In Further Cost-Cutting Drive' -- Daily Mail
* Soldiers, RAF staff and Navy medical personnel 'in line for redundancy'
* Sources say David Cameron keen to avoid bad publicity of job losses
* Military chiefs reportedly want to choose how many redundancies to make
* Downing Street set to prefer troop numbers to fall through retirement
* In 2010 plans announced to cut Army size by 20,000 to 82,000 by 2020
Thousands of soldiers could lose their jobs in a new wave of redundancies set to embarrass the Prime Minister, it has been reported.
An announcement is expected to be made next January with the final number of those losing their jobs confirmed in May.
The final figure due to be made redundant could reach 3,000. Under plans set out in 2010 the size of the Army will be cut by 20,000 to 82,000 by 2020.
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Update: Army faces losing another 3,000 soldiers in January as No 10 and military chiefs clash over redundancies -- The Independent
My Comment: Morale in the British armed forces must be rock bottom.
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