To go with that, here's one from Stuff about NZDF targeting UK DF personnel!!
Sad times indeed.
Those numbers of staff leaving is huge!! There's no way they can keep going with that attrition rate!!
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/6544726/Defence-Force-recruitment-scramble-after-staff-exodusDefence Force recruitment scramble after staff exodus
The New Zealand Defence Force is recruiting in the United Kingdom after a round of redundancies and a mass exodus of staff.
Today the Defence Force announced that 685 people left the service voluntarily between August 2011 and January 2012 last year. On top of that, 212 were made redundant last year, as part of the defence force's White Paper review.
Defence spokesman Squadron Leader Kavae Tamariki said the current rate of attrition was high, and the need to recruit overseas was vital.
"The decision to recruit personnel from the UK is part of the NZDF overall recruitment strategy to recruit the right amount of the right people, with the right attributes, at the right time and place to sustain NZDF operational outputs," he said.
"The process of overseas recruitment is part of lateral recruiting, and is focussing on shortfalls arising from attrition and not on ranks and trades deliberately reduced by the NZDF civilianisation programme."
Those who chose to leave the service included 168 people from the navy, 385 from the army personnel and 132 from the air force.
Meanwhile, the force made two Navy officers redundant only to have to rehire them when their positions couldn't be filled.
The lieutenant commander and chief petty officer had their roles civilianised as part of the Defence Force's moves to restructure the organisation and save $355 million by the end of the 2014/2015 financial year.
Vice Chief Defence Force Rear Admiral Jack Steer today said the officers worked in the Navy's youth development unit and Navy assessment area.
Their roles were vacant for about six weeks before the Navy was forced to rehire them because they couldn't find suitable replacements.
"We asked them to do these jobs, we needed them to do these jobs," he told reporters at Parliament.
"They are back in uniform and they are getting paid what they were getting paid."
Steer admitted the Defence Force could have "handled this better".
The officers would be replaced by civilian workers by the middle of the year, he said.
Defence bosses today appeared before Parliament's foreign affairs select committee where MPs were told the civilisation process had been hard on personnel who were suffering from low morale and "change fatigue".
The Defence Force had already civilianised 304 roles and was due to civilianise another 130 but that process would now be stopped because it was "too damaging".
Further reductions in staff numbers would be achieved through natural attrition.
Other cost cutting measures including reducing the number of military bands from 10 to three.
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Steer said there had been "outrage" over reducing the bands, which were part of the Defence Force and part of New Zealand culture.
- © Fairfax NZ News
) super payout and jumped the ditch, they probably are finding it pretty good there. 
) super payout and jumped the ditch, they probably are finding it pretty good there. 
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