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Originally Posted by Ray
Any reasons?
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There's only one, Sir, and it's always the same one - budget cuts. The same thing happened in Canada and Australia. We cut personnel to save money on wages but were determined to keep the regiments. We've gone from 4x4 to 3x3 and in Canada, we even tried the 10-90 (10% regforce, 90% res - that was a disaster and a half) battalions. At one point, some of our battalions had only 200 people.
In such situations, the luxury of staying in one regt for your entire career disappeared and in fact it was frown upon. You're hoarding the expertise to one regt when it was needed everywhere.
Though in Canada's case, I think the best solution was to shift alot of the regforce regts into the res militia.
A question, Sir, how is the Indian Territorial Army structured and what is its membership? Regforce guys finishing their careers before retirement? Or regforce guys who can't get their promotion but get it in the res?