| It struck me that our special forces are currently being worked very hard and that a possible solution may be to bring 3RAR up to the same level of training as 4RAR while retaining an Airborne slant.
3RAR could then be brigaded with 4RAR forming a Commando, or Para/Commando Brigade with a number of support and training functions administered at brigade level.
I then started to wonder if this may have come up in the White Paper deliberations.
A second Commando type battalion would more useful than a third LI Btn, while there would also be cost and recruiting benefits to not relocating them to Townsville.
I know the airborne thing has been done to death on previous posts but with HNA motorising and mechanising most of the land force and RAVEN's suggestion that Cav be reroled as "Fighting Cavalry" an additional "elite" Infantry formation may make more sense than an additional light motorised one. |
