Tim Worstall

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• 1 Surreptitious Evil // Feb 13, 2012 at 10:11 pm

  There are essentially four sorts of reservists in the British military:

  * regular (commitment from having been regular but either not for long enough or volunteered to keep a commitment on leaving)

  * sponsored (required to have a reserve commitment as part of your civilian job)

  * volunteer (what it says) and

  * “full time reserve service”. Normally either a regular or a volunteer reservist who goes back to working for the MoD in a specific job for a fixed contract.

  The Territorial Army is the volunteer reserve of the Army (as the RNR is for the Royal Navy and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force for the crabs.)

• 2 TomJ // Feb 14, 2012 at 2:37 pm

  nota bene: The Volunteer Reserves include non-deployable personnel, such as the officers in the cdt forces (for the Air Trainingg Corp they are RAFVR(T), where T=Training) and Officer Cadets in the various university units (URNUs, OTCs, UASs and DTUS). The FTRS guys have a varietty of different commitment types, some deployable, others not.

  For more gen on some of the different sorts of Reserve see the links at http://www.rfca-ne.org.uk/links/

• 3 DBC Reed // Feb 14, 2012 at 6:13 pm

  As the name implies, the TA was originally set up just to defend the UK ,not go abroad. But countless cost cutting fanatics have tried to get it to expand its role to take over from the more expensive regulars.The kind of problems created are outlined in that Leftie rag the Telegraph in an article entitled Territorial Army not fit for new role.The best bit is someone claiming that TA soldiers can be classed as ‘regular attendees’ (and so fit for greater responsiblities)by virtue of attending one night of drill in the last six months.

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