The Staff Corps
Stores, vehicles and equipment for the UK forces sent by sea to Kuwait were directed to a port without a Ro-Ro facility.
A Staff Corps contact enabled a floating platform with appropriate ramps to be designed and constructed in Dubai and towed to Kuwait in time to off-load the ships. Op TELIC would have been severely delayed without this platform.
The Staff Corps is a powerful and influential engineering and logistic resource available to the Armed Forces for advice. The membership of the Staff Corps is made up mainly of chief executives, directors and senior technical or operational managers of engineering, transport and logistics firms or organisations. The seniority of the membership is deliberate to give authority and weight to the advice provided.
Purpose
To provide advice and support to HM Forces on all appropriate occasions in a timely manner.
Strategy
Communicate with Ministers, civil servants and senior officers, to ensure that they know of the Corps’ existence and the extent of available expertise.
Continue to widen the remit of the Corps by informing potential users of the existence of a free and impartial service.
Publicise the value, utility, authority and independence of the Corps by highlighting its involvement in and contribution to military operations.