Defense chiefs are considering scrapping a battalion following the successful campaign by the Daily Express and actress Joanna Lumley for veterans to get the right to live in the UK.
According to Daily Express, Peter Carroll, of the Gurkha Justice Campaign, said: "They would be mad to do this. There´d be a huge outcry. The army is disastrously overstretched and Gurkhas are better at staying the course. Very few drop out. Our campaign has not made them more expensive."
The military is under intense pressure to trim its £34 billion budget despite being locked into a war that may last at least a decade.
Up to three infantry battalions could go despite calls for more men. One defense source said: “If it comes to cutting infantry battalions, the Gurkhas are now No 1 on the list. They were only saved from the axe in the last defense cuts because they were seen as being fantastic value.
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