The under-strength and top-heavy Territorial Army has one officer for every four fully-trained soldiers on its books, The Herald can reveal.
The 21,069 part-timers, scattered from the Western Isles to Weymouth, are led by 10 brigadiers, 90 colonels, 340 lieutenant-colonels, 1670 majors, 1890 captains, and 1150 lieutenants, according to Ministry of Defence figures.
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How does the TA function regarding officers, are they mostly ex-regulars or are they mostly Johnny-jump-ups from civvy street? NeverTab wrote:The under-strength and top-heavy Territorial Army has one officer for every four fully-trained soldiers on its books, The Herald can reveal.
The 21,069 part-timers, scattered from the Western Isles to Weymouth, are led by 10 brigadiers, 90 colonels, 340 lieutenant-colonels, 1670 majors, 1890 captains, and 1150 lieutenants, according to Ministry of Defence figures.
understood TA structure myself.
I don't know about now but Para Btn's where more or less the same as a regular Btn i.e. Co, Trg Major, Adjutant, RSM, Coy Commanders, Pln Commanders etc.
As the Btn's have been chopped now, I'm not sure.
ps The Co, Trg Major, Adjutant, RSM were usually regulars.
We did have a Coy Comm. who was an MP.
You also had your PSI's.
As the Btn's have been chopped now, I'm not sure.
ps The Co, Trg Major, Adjutant, RSM were usually regulars.
We did have a Coy Comm. who was an MP.
You also had your PSI's.
Well, as is the case with all the TA, 'on the books' has little to do with who actually turns up. There might be several thousand TA officers on the 4 PARA books, but I've only ever seen three who actually turned up regularly; one was the OC, one was a LE from the ranks, and the last was part of a recent recruitment drive for 2Lts because we didn't have any.
On the ground, they are a bit more scarce than those figures suggest at first glance - also, if you think about it, there is something wrong with figures which give the numbers of majors & captains at 1.5x the number of Lts, there is clearly going to be a dearth of officers at the Plt Cmdr level.
On the ground, they are a bit more scarce than those figures suggest at first glance - also, if you think about it, there is something wrong with figures which give the numbers of majors & captains at 1.5x the number of Lts, there is clearly going to be a dearth of officers at the Plt Cmdr level.
Still the case for CO & RSM, never seen the other two, so no idea.got1 wrote:The Co, Trg Major, Adjutant, RSM were usually regulars
