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Background[edit]

As a consequence of the Army 2020 programme, effective from 1 November 2011 the Chief of the General Staff took direct command of the Army through a new structure, based at Andover, known as "Army Headquarters".^[1]^[2]

The post of Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces ceased to exist.^[1] From this point, the troops designated as 'Land Forces Troops' were reorganised into several large organisations, becoming Home Command (including Regional Command), the Land Warfare Centre (now under CFA), Joint Helicopter Command (formed in 1999), and Commander Land Support (CLS).^[3]

The structure of 'Land Forces Troops' in 2008 was therefore as follows:^[3]

Land Forces Troops, at Erskine Barracks, Wilton
- Director General Training Support – a Major General responsible for "operational military training and overseeing the training areas"
  - Land Accident Prevention and Investigation Team (LAIT)
- Commander Land Support (Land Support Management Group) – formerly Commander Logistical Support – responsible for the management of the Defence Supply Chain to deployed forces, storage, transportation, distribution, of all the necessities for operations and living
- Media Operations Group (Volunteers), in Kingston upon Thames – providing media support to HQ Land Forces
- 16th Air Assault Brigade, HQ at Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison

Under the Army 2020 programme, the grouping of units known as "Land Forces Troops" was disestablished.

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References

^ ^a ^b Army Command reorganization Archived 12 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine Defence Marketing Intelligence, 10 November 2011
^ Higher Command Archived 5 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Mackinlay, Gordon Angus (2007). "A Moment in Time", The British Army at a Moment in Time – 1 July 2007: A Look at and from it of the makeup of the Regular and Territorial Army. Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom: University of East Anglia.

[intel-1] Army Command reorganization Archived 12 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine Defence Marketing Intelligence, 10 November 2011

[2] Higher Command Archived 5 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[:1-3] Mackinlay, Gordon Angus (2007). "A Moment in Time", The British Army at a Moment in Time – 1 July 2007: A Look at and from it of the makeup of the Regular and Territorial Army. Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom: University of East Anglia.

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