By Henry Munns @hgmunns
After reading some of the other posts on this webpage, I feel mine might be a little less moving. I was approached by Alison Seabeck MP to write a little bit for Labour Friends of the Forces. My first piece is on the future of reserves with in the military.
The current policy that will affect mine and many of my colleagues’ roles within
the military is Future Reserves 2020 (FR20). This was a report that looked
at the reservist structure and then made a range of policy targets. The main
recommendations which have been accepted by the government are:
- An expansion of Reserve forces from 23,080 to 34,900 by 2015 (FR20, 2011)
- An increase in the ease of transferring between regular and reserve forces
- Also an improvement in the reservist proposition (eg. benefits for the individual, how an individual’s civilian life interacts with his military life)
- A drive to increase the number of specialist tasks to be supported by reserve forces. Eg. Medical, Cyber, Conflict Prevention and Capacity Building. Continue reading
