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The timing of Troop Training is very carefully worked out, its not a figure pulled out of the hat. At Depot level, soldiers not quite up to strength are given extra training either at the Depot or within their Regiments/battalions etc. To cut this training by half is nothing short of a panic move to get troops on the ground.
Hence: "One senior defence source admitted that the new recruits would not be properly qualified to fight since they would receive only 50 per cent of the basic training usually given to qualified combat infantrymen.
“I would be very nervous of having to deploy with this limited level of expertise and experience"
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