Five Dunedin-based regular force Defence Force employees have
been told they are "no longer required in uniform" and will
be "released" from their present jobs, as the military takes
its first steps towards a more streamlined operation.
The joke doing the rounds of the military has it that there
seems to be no spare cash for anything other than hiring
expensive consultants to squeeze more money out of the
Defence Force's budget to hire even more expensive
consultants ...
The New Zealand Government will give a United States company
until to Christmas to come up with money to buy its Skyhawks
after the company was granted extended import approval by its
own authorities.
New Zealand Defence Force personnel and the Otago Southland
Regional Employer Support Council met in Dunedin yesterday to
discuss getting young people who succeed in defence force
youth programmes into meaningful employment.
Otago Business Equipment was named New Zealand's most
supportive employer to an employee in the New Zealand Army
Territorial Force or Royal New Zealand Navy Reserve at an
awards ceremony in Wellington last night.
That brilliant Australian Clive James in his television show
once ran pictures of a parade which included a measly couple
of soldiers marching along holding antiquated rifles.
Former Telecom chief executive Roderick Deane will be leading
a "value for money" inquiry into New Zealand's Defence Force,
Defence Minister Wayne Mapp announced today.
A military helicopter at the centre of a $770 million New
Zealand Defence Force upgrade has come in for harsh criticism
in a German Army report into its performance.
