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The Armed Forces are today announcing the fields from which they will select those to be made redundant in Tranche 2 of the Armed Forces Redundancy Programme.

Plans to reduce the size of the Army by 7,000 personnel and both the Navy and RAF by 5,000 personnel by 2015 in order to ensure our Armed Forces are sufficiently flexible and adaptable to meet the demands of an uncertain future were announced in the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) in October 2010.

Some of these reductions are being made through a redundancy programme. When looking at the balance of Regular to Reserve forces, further reductions were identified in July 2011 for the Regular Army, taking them to around 82,000 by 2020.

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