Which Barracks Should Close Next? (Part 2)

[DeV]

If an AC or NS Officer/NCO (below Col/Capt(NS) rank) gets put in a DFHQ appointment, the AC/NS cannot promote against the vacancy. They have to carry the vacancy in their Service.

The Army can promote against the vacancy.

Big difference.

Could be changed with the stroke of a pen…. A lot cheaper than setting up a whole new HQ

[na grohmiti]

Could be changed with the stroke of a pen…. A lot cheaper than setting up a whole new HQ

Funniest thing I've seen on this site in years.

[trellheim]

If an AC or NS Officer/NCO (below Col/Capt(NS) rank) gets put in a DFHQ appointment, the AC/NS cannot promote against the vacancy. They have to carry the vacancy in their Service.

The Army can promote against the vacancy.

Big difference.

What regulation/Adm Instr says that ?

[DeV]

Funniest thing I've seen on this site in years.

Funny and true!

Massive improvements could be made across the DF at zero cost with changes to the Defence Acts, DFRs, Admin/Logs Instructions, paperwork etc

Many would solve serious frustrations for people

may not put a extra cent in someone’s pocket but make life a bit easier

we don’t need a joint HQ we already have one, the problem is it isn’t joint enough

[DeV]

From the Annual Report 2021:

Casement Military Medical Facility (Relocation of St. Bricins): €8m

St Bricins Relocation - MAP and Dmed - former COS: €2.2m

[DeV]

Also

the sale of Mitchell Barracks in County Mayo concluded in 2021 for €600,000.

As set out in the White Paper on Defence, the Government has decided that 100% of receipts from property disposals are to be reinvested in the defence capital programme and necessary adjustments made in financial provisions.

is that Castlebar ?

[northie]

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is that Castlebar ?

Yup. Sold for buttons. A new build semi-d (both units) would fetch more than that.

[Truck Driver]

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is that Castlebar ?

I thought that the local RDF unit (D Coy 6 Bn?) are billeted back in a corner of the same location?

[TangoSierra]

For €5 you can get the buyer information from landdirect.ie

Nothing on Mayo CoCo planning website ... yet

https://mayococo.maps.arcgis.com/app...727fecb908ae27

[Chuck]

What regulation/Adm Instr says that ?

Have a look at Admin Instruction CS4 DFHQ establishment and have a read of the footnotes at the top of the page regarding AC/NS appointments.

There's 5 DFHQ appointments for the AC for example for Captain/Comdt rank.

If the Air Corps wants someone in there, they have to sacrifice that person with potentially no replacement doing their existing job in Baldonnel.

In lay man's terms, if the total establishment of the AC for Capt/Comdt is 60, and you want to staff the 5 DFHQ appointments aswell, you now have 65 appointments but can never have more than 60 capt/comdts.

In the Army this isn't the case.

Clever accounting by the green uniforms as always.

Watch out for more of it when it comes to implementation of the CoDF memo. Anything that seeks to reduce the green influence or threaten cushy appointments in Brussels, OSCE, UNNY etc will be fiercely resisted.

[TangoSierra]

There are Navy serving in Brussels/Shape but their appointments at home are vacant. Not so for the Army as there is an Army only Col panel in CS4 for overseas appointments.

[Chuck]

Im straying off topic so apologies but ill make one prediction for the future.

Given the amount of attention that surrounded the discussion of Primary Radar and its stragetic importance for national defence and how it should feed into a RAP for the Defence Forces.

Watch this space. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the Army suddenly decide they want to be responsible for it.

Granted, there are many facets to that discussion but I think any reasonable individual would argue that Primary Radar would be responsibility of a Nations air arm. If they don't make this magical switch to an "Air Force" the Army will swallow it up. Arty lads aren't up to much, I'm sure they wouldn't mind a plethora of new SNCO/officer appts to get promoted into!

/cynicism.

[na grohmiti]

It has to be said the Artillery folks took a firm hold of the drones from the outset, even though, as a recce asset, it would have made more sense for them to be a Cav thing.
I'm willing to predict that the primary radar military aspect will be civvies, under token military management, same as in NS FMC.

[apod]

Engineer Corps have drones too and the plan is for Cav to have some in the future.

[CTU]

It has to be said the Artillery folks took a firm hold of the drones from the outset, even though, as a recce asset, it would have made more sense for them to be a Cav thing.
I'm willing to predict that the primary radar military aspect will be civvies, under token military management, same as in NS FMC.

Wasn't that a sort of copy from the British Army, where their medium/large UAVs (Watchkeeper/Desert Hawk) were used mainly by the Royal Artillery, with the RAF later entering the UAV business using Reapers.

As for barrack closures, I wouldn't be surprised if certain people try to use that AI report on Ukraine to argue for all DF Barracks in Urban areas to close and be given over for Housing.