Gurkha's are the toughest cut for UK forces

Telegraph:

Hundreds of RAF and Royal Navy personnel will also be made compulsorily redundant on Sept 1 as only half have agreed to take the voluntary package.

A total of 17,000 personnel will be dismissed from the Armed Forces over the next three years.
Only six Gurkhas have chosen voluntary redundancy out of the 150 demanded by the Ministry of Defence in the first tranche of sackings in September.

A total of 1,000 across the Army are to be sacked, but this newspaper reported on Saturday that outside the Gurkhas there were double the number of voluntary applications, including from some of the “best and brightest” officers.

It is understood that many of the Nepalese soldiers fear being unable to get work in Britain or having to take poorly paid jobs back home.

Major David Owens, of the British Gurkha Council, said it would be difficult for Gurkhas to find employment in the poor economic climate.

“This is just very sad that 150 Gurkhas who have loyally served this country and have pretty much spent their entire life on operations are being treated so shamefully. Man-to-man Gurkhas spend more time on operations than anyone else in the Forces. They have also been the most loyal to serve Britain.”

The RAF and Navy are already at record low levels for manning and are under more pressure from operations in Libya and Afghanistan. More than 1,000 sailors and airmen will be made compulsorily redundant in September as only about half of the 1,020 in the RAF and 1,600 in the Navy have volunteered.

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The cuts are a bad idea to begin with. Britain spends far too much on social programs already and it is too the point that it is making the country poorer and less safe. It would help to take all the terrorist off welfare and deport them despite what the goofy EU court says. It is just nuts to be subsidizing terrorist while they are cutting the military.

The Gurkha who are cut should be recruited by the US. We should be able to find a place for such fine fighters.