“While some individual training and leave may need to be rescheduled, this will be managed and will not impact on operations including the ongoing mission in Afghanistan,” he said.

British Defense Minister Philip Hammond said on Tuesday that G4S’s failure to provide enough guards has shown that there were some things only state organizations, such as the British Army, could be relied upon to do.

Hammond, currently overseeing the largest overhaul of Britain’s armed forces in a generation, said in an interview with the Independent that “the story of G4S and the military rescue is quite informative.”

Regular trained members of Britain’s army will be cut to 82,000 from 102,000 by 2020 to save money.