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ANNEX A TO DOP 528/69
(Preliminary Draft) (Continued)
£42,500 overseas expenditure, assuming an aircrew ratio of 1.3
and an increase in the global unit establishment of Whirlwindṣ but
no increase in global manpower.
AIM
6. To examine the feasibility of meeting the cost of the four
additional Whirlwind helicopters by making compensating savings
within the Hong Kong Garrison.
ACCEPTABLE SAVINGS IN HONG KONG GARRISON
7. A reduction of 28 men in the Hong Kong Garrison could be made
during the period 1969-mid 1970 and a further 27 in 1972. These re-
ductions would provide an annual saving of £6,000 budgetary and £26,000
overseas expenditure now, and a further £5,400 and £20,000 respectively
from 1972. A detailed breakdown of these savings is at Appendix 1.
FURTHER MEASURES TO ACHIEVE SAVINGS
8. We now examine further possible measures for meeting the balance
of the savings required, stating in each case the constraints and
penalties involved. Details of the savings that would be achieved
by these measures are at Appendix 2.
9.
Closing the Military Corrective Training Centre (MCTC). Service-
men in Hong Kong who are under sentence in excess of 28 days detention,
and some detainees in units without adequate guardroom facilities,
serve in the MCTC. The closing down of this Centre would, after
withdrawal from Singapore in 1971, result in these men having to be
flown to the UK to serve their sentence. This would not only offset
savings made by closing the MCTC, but would also result in a number
of administrative and morale problems.
10.
Withdrawal of the Locating Troop, RA.
With the introduction
of the locating radar CYMBELINE in 1971/72, locating troops will be
an integral part of all light regiments, RA.
CYMBELINE will be an
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