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AIM
4. The aim of this paper is to inform the Chiefs of Staff of proposals for reducing to the preferred and approved force levels by 1 April 1976.
OUTLINE SERVICE PLANS
GENERAL
5. Although the bulk of the reductions are planned to take place during the first three months of 1976, the available airlift capacity together with the need to begin "thinning out" earlier has meant that reductions will begin during 1975. Inevitably, precise numbers, whether they be for airlift or redundancy planning, must remain a best estimate, until detailed examinations have proceeded further. It is hoped that these will be completed within the next six weeks.
6. All three services have received planning guidance through single service channels and to this extent much of what follows will be well known to single service departments. However the following paragraphs set out in outline the reduction plans for each service together with the more important questions that have yet to be resolved before detailed plans can be completed.
ROYAL NAVY
7.
Factors. The main factors determining the rundown of
the Royal Navy are:
a. The withdrawal of HMS YARNTON and HMS WOLVERTON
to UK, leaving Hong Kong in September and arriving in UK by Christmas 1975.
D.
The facilities provided by IMS TAMAR will in future be restricted to that necessary to support the Hong Kong Squadron alone though the NUSAFE organisation will continue.
c.
Naval single service HIF communications with the exception of 1 ship/shore RATT link will cease and the Defence Communications Network will use satellite communications with commercial cable back up to the
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