None at all recce most army schools will work out of Hokowhitu campus with students using barracks & messing in Linton, as for portacoms well HQ 2LFG have been housed in one for the last 20 years they were meant to get a new HQ ten years ago.
Army units like 5 Movement Company within the next year will form a tri service unit based in Ohakea working hand in hand with Air Force Move Ops, Army move ops are already posted to HMNZS Canterbury, we either use Napier or Wellington to board ship.
I give Army 10 to 15 years and we will be in Ohakea the writing is on the wall, all the LAV infrastructure can be dismantled and rebuilt thats how they designed it.
CD
Thanks CD. A couple of other things (which aren't clear to me in the Defence Review and subsequent public documents).
With the shifts occuring this year (to Linton, Ohakea and Hokowhitu), does that account for the majority of the Army/NZDF units being relocated for the timebeing or are there still more relocations planned for the next year or so?
Longer term then would the likes of the Army Schools stay at Hokowhitu, or move to Ohakea (or move into Linton when the bulk of Linton's operational units move to Ohakea), in that future 10-15 years time frame?
(For those unsure Hokowhitu being referred to here, apart from also being the name of a suburb in Palmerston North, is Massey University's "city" campus that the University is gradually relocating away from to their main campus. It's a very pleasant area with lots of open space, and next to the campus is the river and lagoon, not too many houses nearby although they are top dollar ... and conveniently next door to an 18 hole golf course ... in fact troops could probably jump the boundary fence and get some practice in between lessons.
I understand in pre-European times it was the local Maori tribes' training area for their warriors, so perhaps this is somewhat apt today! There is a reference at the bottom of page 4
here).
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Edit/update: Defmin's (spokeswoman) confirms Linton not closing and gives an indication of current thinking (and mostly answers my second query above):
Plans to shut Linton Military Camp and move staff to Ohakea have been shelved.
Defence Minister Wayne Mapp confirmed there were no plans to close the Linton base as part of a previously signalled merger with Ohakea Air Force Base, and other options were being looked at.
The White Paper defence review, released by the Government last year, suggested a consolidation of military resources in the wider Manawatu by moving the Linton and Waiouru camps to Ohakea in the next five to 10 years.
But a spokeswoman for Dr Mapp said yesterday the Government was now looking at other options, which included moving Waiouru staff to Linton, and turning the Waiouru camp into a training ground.
Creating a defence hub within Manawatu, involving Linton, Ohakea and the training facility at Massey University's Hokowhitu campus, was being investigated.
"Dr Mapp said that once they had looked into that, there was probably a more sensible way to do it," she said.
More at
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/5941686/Linton-camp-closure-plans-shelved
