DF Commission Report

Its mad how people in that town where attached to the barracks. I do have to go there for work now and again and all i here is they stole our barracks. They even have signs up aproaching the town saying its the home of the 9th FAR

The DOD should get moving because the land to the west will have a Data Center on it very quickly.

They could also take land to the south west if they expaned the main runway but a new road network woukd have to be built to allow for this.

The only good thing about the current buildings around casement is that they are commercial so they wont have noise complaints compare to if it was new resi

I dont think they will be moving now with the new medical center being built, but anything is possabile

I think that Gormanstown should be upgraded as an Air Force and Naval base combined with a smaller Army unit there. Maybe ARW?

We could deploy the Naval Vessels like the Clogherhead Lifeboat jonny

Wtf do you be smoking? Really, I'm asking.

while not directly Defence commission related, good to see the new accommodation block opened in Haulbowline y/day with 2 more of the quayside buildings to be refurbished. While not significant in them selves hopefully this signals a sustained commitment to the upgrade of facilities. The sense of the place having being allowed go to wrack and ruin prevails, even extends to broken down to the jetty which was unusable … I know historic sites involve greater upkeep and cost but that is a price that the Government needs to meet on the basis of the current structures and probably needs to be explicitly accounted for in the Defence CapmEx budget. Anyways the expenditure involved on these specific projects is minor in relative and absolute terms.

IMHO there is a cause and effect where the signal that a poor work environment sends feeds thru to recruitment and retention. While I think there is a major and probably ultimately not feasible effort to boost DF numbers in the coming years, a half decent built environment is part of an overall package which includes pay ….

When will we the smaller elements of the commission report happening such as the air corps and naval service name change and the Army HQ?

If they are trying to bring a more balanced partnership to the defence forces between the services it’s a wonder they didn’t go a long the Belgian route and re name all the services such as the Belgians with there Services names.

if Athlone becomes Army HQ. what does that mean for Custume will it be expanded with more troops or does simply just get a few more Admin staff and a General?

Why would it be, the long serving Officers and Men are well settled in Dublin.

Where did this talk of Custume becoming Army HQ come from anyway, surely Dublin makes most sense, or at the very least The Curragh and the flexibility it offers.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

We do not.

The M version is rigged for weapons payloads and strengthened for combat service.

We operate the bog standard AW-139 MLH civvy that might serve an oil rig or as an executive transport or air ambulance.

The 139s as is are perfect for internal security work. But if they ever did deploy overseas they could buy a few proper military spec for the over seas missions and use the standard ones for the donkey work at home

Why did the USAF go for a none US Design?