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the financial advantages to be gained but also for the milica.
benefits to be derived from standardised equipment which shoul
facilitate common logistics, training and operations. (See
Chapter II paragraphs 13 to 16 for further details on collabo
MANPOWER IMPLICATTONS
64. In broad terms manpower reductions will
be of the order of 38,000 cr 11 per
cent for the Armed Services; and 30,000 or 10 per cent for civil
support. These assessments have been made against actual stren
at 1 April 1974 and cover the reductions expected over the fiv:
year period to 1 April 1979. By this time the new manpower lc.
resulting from the Defence Review will have been broadly achie
It is difficult to provide detailed estimates at this stage
when or where these reductions will fall, but the figures below IV
a broad indication of the overall effect:-
Strengths
1.4.74
Reductions by 1.4.79
Strengths
at 1.4.79
Percentag Reduction
Royal Navy/
79,000
Royal Marines
Army
180,000
5,000
15,000
74,000
6 per cen
155,000
(including
8 per c.
(including
(including
7,000
1,000
6,000
Gurkhas)
Gurkhas)
Gurkhas)
Royal Air
100,000
18,000
82,000
18 per
Force
UK-based
civilians
249,000
15,000
234,000
6 per ce::
Locally-entered
60,000
15,000
45,000
25 per
civilians
(MOD and DOE)
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