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| British Army Gurkhas (Wiki Info - File Photo) |
LONDON — More than 1,500 military personnel, including hundreds of Gurkhas, are to lose their jobs in a final round of redundancies aimed at reshaping Britain’s armed forces, the government said Thursday.
Up to 1,425 members of the army are to go, including around 350 members of the Brigade of Gurkhas, which has already suffered cuts in earlier rounds of job losses.
The job cuts are completed by up to 70 medical and dental officers from the Royal Air Force (RAF) and up to 10 from the Royal Navy, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told parliament.
The fourth tranche of redundancies is part of an armed forces restructuring program which will see the regular army cut from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2020, while the newly-renamed Army Reserve — formerly the Territorial Army — is being expanded from 19,000 to 30,000.
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