The Regular Reserve is the component of the military reserve of the British Armed Forces whose members have formerly served in the "Regular" (full-time professional) forces. (Other components of the Reserve are the Volunteer Reserves and the Sponsored Reserves.) The Regular Reserve largely consists of ex-Regular personnel who retain a statutory liability for service and are liable to be recalled for active military duty "in case of imminent national danger or great emergency". It also consists of a smaller number of ex-Regulars who serve under a fixed-term reserve contract (similar in nature to the Volunteer Reserves) and are liable for reporting, training and deploying on operations.[1]
Since April 2013, Ministry of Defence publications no longer report the entire strength of the Regular Reserve, instead, only Regular Reserves serving under the fixed-term reserve contract are counted.[2] As of 2014, they had a strength of 45,110 personnel.[3] Of those, approximately 2,450 were serving alongside the Regular military in active service.[4]
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Regularwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "MoD – reserves and cadet strengths 2014" (PDF). table 4 page 13. See note 2. April 2014.
- ^ "MoD – reserves and cadet strengths 2014" (PDF). table 1a-page 10. April 2014.
- ^ "UK Armed Forces Quarterly Personnel Report October 2014" (PDF). gov.uk, table 1 page 6, October 2014.
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