Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) will dismiss hundreds of its staff this week as part of plans to cut spending with workers supporting operations in Libya at risk too.
Almost 1,000 RAF personnel including ground crew and support staff will be informed Thursday whether they are sacked or escaped this round of job cuts, British media reported.
The pilots flying bombers onto Libyan cities and towns would remain safe as long as their service is needed to continue the aggressions.
The redundancies are the first within RAF carried as part of the coalition's cuts to service personnel, which are aimed at tackling a record budget deficit in the country's history.
A similar number of the army personnel will face the axe simultaneous with RAF workers, according to the reports.
The plans to cut the posts were announced earlier this year and form part of a programme which could see 11,000 redundancies across the RAF, Army and Royal Navy by April 2015.
"Anyone in receipt of operational allowance on the day redundancy notices are issued is not eligible to be made redundant unless they apply”, said a Ministry of Defence spokeswoman.
"This includes personnel operating within the landmass, airspace and territorial waters of Libya", she added.
Troopers who are deployed in Afghanistan, about to be deployed to the country or who have recently returned from duty there, are also protected from redundancy, said the reports.
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