Liberal Democrat MP, the former Defence Minister Sir Nick Harvey has launched a campaign to open up the United Kingdom's Reserve forces to retired Gurkha soldiers. Mr Harvey says that this is so they can lead the way in making our future Reserves better and stronger than ever.
Speaking at the launch of his campaign Sir Nick Harvey said: "The MoD plans to fully integrate 30,000 fully-trained Reserves into the Regular Army by 2020, but this is going to be a real challenge which we need to do more to achieve. Surprisingly, Gurkhas aren't currently recruited into the Reserves automatically on leaving service - unlike other soldiers. We've got to retain the Gurkhas' unique skills and recognise their brave and dedicated service to this country by putting them into the Reserves. They can then lead the way in building the TA and the Regular Reserves into a new, rejuvenated and deployment-ready Future Reserves."
