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Zitat:Axe Falls on Military Personnel and Bases
The defence ministry has announced the first wave of sweeping cuts affecting both the army and the air force.
The army is to lose 564 professional posts, with a further 1,100 to go by the end of 2005. Twenty-five logistics bases will close or be scaled down.
Defence Minister Samuel Schmid and army chief Christoph Keckeis on Friday unveiled the “first phase” of a rationalization program of Switzerland’s regular armed forces.
The minister said the job cuts were painful but necessary in the light of recent financial pressure. The ministry said its anticipated budget of SFr4.3 billion had been trimmed to less than SFr4 billion.
The cuts to Switzerland regular armed forces follow plans for a major overhaul of the country’s militia army approved in a nationwide vote in May last year.
Under the Army XXI reforms, the militia army will be reduced by a third, from 350,000 to 220,000 soldiers (including 80,000 reservists). Obligatory military service will be reduced from 300 to 260 days.
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