UK Airborne Brigade moves under control of Central Army Command

摘要

The UK's rapid reaction airborne brigade is to move under the direct control of the British Army's central headquarters as part of a major re-organisation of the service's command structure. From the end of November, 16 Air Assault Brigade will report direct to the army's Commander Land Forces, Lieutenant General James Everard, who is based at its headquarters in Andover. Since it was formed in 1999, 16 Brigade had been under the day-to-day control of the Joint Helicopter Command (JHC), but the new arrangements are said to be a recognition of the formation's "unique status" as the UK's only air-deployable theatre entry force.