£300m Ministry of Defence luxury Budget to be Axed

The government is to point its cuts in the military budget to the almost £300 million perks which go into the lavish life-styles of the top brass.

The dizzying sum of money is now spent on luxurious homes, domestic servants and free boarding school places for the most senior military officers.

The nine-digit figure is enough for the army to buy 10 Chinook helicopters, or 300 Mastiff armored vehicles, 28,000 pieces of body armor or three Typhoon fighters, the News of the World reported.'

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