The monarch held the stick on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after it was presented to her by General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, chief of the general staff, as a token of the Army s support.
General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, a decorated former SAS commander, said he was not comfortable when he learned the MoD intended to cut the size of the regular Army by 9,000 soldiers.
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