Seventy redundancy letters have been delivered to personnel based at the Leuchars and Condor military bases, the UK Government has confirmed.
Minister for defence personnel Mark Francois made the admission in answer to a Parliamentary Question from SNP defence spokesman Angus Robertson.
Thirty people at the Fife RAF base, which is to be turned over to the army in 2015, and 20 of the the Royal Marines in Arbroath were given their notice in the first tranche of redundancies.
A further 20 Leuchars personnel received the unwelcome news in the second tranche to take its total to 70.
Mr Robertson said: “Our first thoughts are with the 520 service personnel across Scotland who have been made redundant by Westminster in these austerity cuts. The numbers may be expected but they are still shocking to the communities they hit and reflect the series of betrayals and U-turns by Westminster on defence issues in Scotland.
“Westminster is handing out P45s to dedicated service personnel on the one hand, while sending ministers to Scotland to scaremonger about defence in an independent Scotland the hypocrisy of the UK Government is shameful.”
Liberal Democrat North East Fife MP, Sir Menzies Campbell, maintained Leuchars would have been the best place to base northern Britain’s air defence.
He said: “These are the painful consequences of the restructuring of our armed forces. Had it not been for the decision to move the Typhoons to Lossiemouth, then Leuchars might have been exempt.”
The UK Government’s long-term plan is to reduce the number of regular soldiers from 102,000 to 82,000.
Both Leuchars and Condor escaped further punishment in the third and biggest round of job cuts since the 2010 defence review, announced last month.
HMS Caledonia and the Rosyth Defence Estate emerged from the three rounds of redundancy unscathed.
In his answer to Mr Robertson, Mr Francois, said: “Neither the post nor the location in which individuals are serving are taken into account by armed forces redundancy selection boards.
“The selection of an individual cannot be assumed to imply that the post they occupy on the date of notification is no longer required.
“Service personnel move between posts and locations regularly, and the location at which they will be serving on their exit date may be different from that at which they were notified.”