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[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Hence why the military. That sort of thing is very within the CRE capability set.

The military has 150k full-time personal. But numbers is not the reason to use military. Skills set is. The UK military is built from professionals with skills to help resolve and organise groups exactly in emergencies like this.

As for standing obligations. Most of that is training and preparing for war or emergencies just like this.