Which Reserves Force is right for you?
Army, Air Force, Navy, the Royal Marines or even the Special Forces? Read the information and take your pick. What will you be doing with your weekends in future? Territorial Army (TA) Overview Territorial Army: What commitment is Involved? Territorial Army Training Territorial Army Wages Regular Reserves Royal Air Force Reserves, RAFR and RAuxAF RAF Reserves: What commitment is Involved? "RAF ...
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A Trained Soldier with a Tank Regiment
After phase one training you move on to your specialist training which is called phase two. For me my phase two was very quick as I got fast tracked to my regiment to be a gunner. I did however spend two weeks at ATR Bovvington learning how to drive a car and I did some advanced signals before I got called ... -
Operation BARRAS (Sierra Leone) - Part 2
Op BARRAS – 10th September 2000 On 25th August 2000 eleven members of the Royal Irish Regiment (RIR), travelling in WMIK ‘Gunship’ Land Rovers, and a liaison officer of the Sierra Leone Army, were taken prisoner by a ruthless armed rebel group led by ‘Brigadier’ Foday Kallay and known as the West Side Boys. Some confusion initially existed as to how ... -
Operations PALLISER & BARRAS (Sierra Leone) - Part 1
Op PALLISER – 7th May to 15th June 2000 Civil War started in Sierra Leone in March 1991 and within a few months over 100,000 refugees had fled the country. The Military Wing of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), led by Foday Sankoh, conducted a reign of terror over the next 11 years where mutilation and murder became the norm. Before ... -
British Military Conflicts Reviewed - The Nature of Conflict
The 2003 Defence White Paper, titled Delivering Security in a Changing World described the future structure of the British military, and was preceded by the 1998 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) and the 2002 SDR New Chapter, that responded to the immediate challenges to security following the September 11 attacks. Modern Warfare: Its Sinister Face There is no denying that the nature ... -
Overseas Applications To Join the British Armed Forces
For more than a hundred years the British Armed Forces have recruited from all over the word - Indeed many regiments would not have survived without the influx of recruits from the Commonwealth and non Commonwealth countries, particularly from Fiji, Ireland, Jamaica, South Africa and Ghana - not to mention the old tradition of recruiting Gurkhas from Nepal. It was many ...
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