Nicholas,
It’s a great idea to bring soldiers back from Germany – but there is no infrastructure in the UK to house them.
The current plans to remove the Armed Forces from Germany by 2015 are only going to add to the burden on already crammed quarters and barrack accomodation.
In order to make the long-term saving there is a requirement for short term investment….which there is no money for. The soldiers are only going to have their lives made more miserable than they already are – while the government talks of reinstating the Military Covenant it is killing off Defence with a death of 1,000 cuts.
And as a footnote, the soldiers in Germany deploy on operations just as regularly as the soldiers in UK. It’s not like (as Liam Fox implies) the troops there are sat around waiting for the non-existant threat of Russian invasion.
I believe I’m right in saying that the 1 (UK) Div soldiers in fact undertake more deployments than those here in UK.
