SELLING OURSELVES DOWN THE RIVER

[bigduke6]

Gil,

It was £10 K for lads/lasses who were either leaving or had left the Regs and Joined the Reserves, The £15k was to get them back in the Regs, two lads I was with in Canada were dangled the carrot...... as for the money they were ploughing into the reserves that has certainly dried up..........

Certainly agree with you regarding the Para/Marine merge, I've said a few times on here my views on disbanding City and County regiments, the History behind them and there achievements long gone........ and the remnants kept in storage somewhere.

Anyway back to ships, The RFA had about 4 vessels laid up in Camel Lairds, I nearly took a job looking after them, small team of Engineers keeping them in some sort of readiness........ the guy leading the team was an Ex RFA Chief who said it wast the cost of the running the vessels that they were laid up, it was due to not having enough crew to man them....... I was very keen on the job, money was excellent but Lairds only had a contract with the RFA until this year...... that contract was for the refits of all the RFA vessels etc.