British Army closes bases over Christmas! Soldiers told to 'work from home'! 2012 doom?

NICE FUCKING SPOT!

Check back. See if this has been done before.

Apparently not "Richard Kemp, a former commander of UK ground forces in Afghanistan, said he had never come across anything similar in 25 years of military service."

Anyone who has holidays (vacation) left to take has to take them, but anyone who has no holidays is being told to 'work from home'. How exactly? Set up an assault course in their back gardens?

It applies to all military and civilian staff in the land forces as well as the Royal Navy and the RAF.

Crazy.

That is very, very strange! WOW.

Good find OP.

Five stars from down under.

That's reallly weird.

Hey, mods! I suggest that thread to be pinned.

and now, five more stars from the garden at seaside.

All front line military in the U.K has been placed on a 10 day standby dropping to 3-days next week. Some shit is about to go down.

Link?

Ooooo errr.....

I served over 9 years in the birtish army stationed in Germany from untill 2007 and have never heard of such a huge block of mandatory holiday period ever being ordered in the past, that is very wierd if it is really true.

not long to go anyway and only time will tell.

Well it's reported in the Sunday Times (not that they *always* get things right generally trustworthy).

Whoever ordered this is a Marxist enviro tard global warming alarmist.

i smell natural disasters

Not good. Very slow mobilization...just like 9/11.

what's BS? The story or the link to doom?

As an ex British soldier to deliberately position troops and keep it hush is not possible, but the benefits to reduce all bases to skeleton staff have massive cost savings, fuel, food, cleaning the list goes on.

Grow up. Times is the sister paper of Sun tabloid and its owned by you know who.

And? It's a very respected newspaper. It has nothing to do with The Sun at all apart from the owner. To think otherwise is silly. By all means have a negative view of the MSM but don't try to compare the ST with the Sun. You just look foolish.

Yes, but the Times is also one of the oldest and most respected papers in the entire world. This story is quite odd. If 'something' is returning, from up above, you surely don't want all of your troops sitting together as nice targets on bases. As someone else pointed out, it would be impossible to pre-position troops, vehicles, weapons systems and aircraft to a war footing without arousing public panic because of the timing - so getting your most valuable resources (the manpower) to self-disperse all across the nation seems to make a lot of sense.

Nope. If it were natural disasters you would have more to benefit from keeping all troops on bases, near to their equipment and vehicles, and easier to organise.

This is a form of pre-invasion dispersal.

That's exactly as I am reading the story.

Sorry, messed up the last post. I meant to reply to this. This is exactly as I see it.

Glad to see someone else on the same wavelength here!

There is also a thread on here about the Russians moving two combat brigades to the Norwegian border - the same area the famous 'Norwegian Spiral' was seen in the sky not so long ago.

If something really is going down then there should be evidence from other countries about subtle preparations and unusual leaves etc. Any Europeans got any info (I tend to give European stories more weight because Americans are always shouting about 'unusual troop movements')?

Ditto.

This is very sus!

The actual military directive. Don't know if you can access it outside the UK.

[link to www.thesundaytimes.co.uk]

An actual facsimile of actual letter.