TNAG-0060-FCO40-96-Strength-of-Hong-Kong-garrison-1968 — Page 31

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3. Army department paper will be availaber

for you

to study

anival have.

on

your

to have

Meanwhile you may

like DT. D

following brief summary of its arguments

against

unaccompanies tours :-

(1) exprience has mown that a

of

three units is needed

backing

to maintain

each unaccompanied wit. Once Hong

Kong garrison

is composed solely of This could happen of Curlches were to get Butish unit (it. after

(1.2. defler Compilation (+

disbanded

Geothed in the early 1970's in 1972) there will

be insufficient

units in UK alone

to meet whole requirement. If wit

stationed in Europe were also made

Available for

unaccompanied

tours

this would introduce

in Hong Kong,

degure of turbulence for service families

which would have effecti

on morale,

revrictment and re-engagement

which

marld be avoided if at all possible.

Sarings on budgetary I capital cost.

on capital expenditur

(2) Ang saving

largely

for families which world

iny thong Kang

would be offset by weed to manitam accommodation as of loss of receipt from

Sherwine have been disposed of UK since it

аса

smmodation

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