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Immediate Requirements
110. In the short term, in order to provide the maximum continuity on
withdrawal of the British forces, the policy should be:
a.
Sea Defence Force.
Training to be carried out by foreign
national officers.
b. Army. In addition to the training which will be carried out
by officers and non commissioned officers of the Trucial Oman Scouts
and supplemented by foreign national military personnel engaged for
Union posts, an army training team will be required.
c.
Air Force.
(1)
Aircrew will be foreign national service personnel
serving under contract.
If conversion to another type of
aircraft is necessary this should be corried out at the
appropriate conversion unit overseas before they join the
operational unit of the Union Air Force.
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(2)
Tigercat: foreign national service personnel,
serving under contract should operate this equipment until
local personnel are trained.
Tigercat operators should
carry out their training abroad before forming up as
operational units.
(3)
Maintenance personnel can best be provided by foreign
nationals in the higher skilled trades augmented by local
personnel; the whole being employed by a single foreign
civil contractor.
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