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making a total of 46 deaths since the Regiment's formation in 1970.
ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES
RESERVE FORCES
10. The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Reserve Forces consist of
the Regular Reserves and the Volunteer Reserves.
11. The Regular Reserves are ex-Regular Royal Navy and Royal Marines
officers and men, including some 5,000 ratings in the Royal Fleet
Reserve, who have had recent experience of active service.
12. The Volunteer Reserves, consisting of the Royal Naval Reserve,
the Royal Marines Reserve and the Women's Royal Naval Reserve.
total some 2,600 officers and 4,400 men and women. The Royal Naval
Auxiliary Service is a non-seagoing, volunteer, civilian service
numbering some 3,000 men and women.
13. An examination of the future requirements for the Royal Naval
Reserve and Royal Naval Auxiliary Service has just been concluded
and its findings are under consideration.
ROYAL AIR FORCE RESERVE FORCES
14. The Poyal Air Force Reserve consists of the Regular and
Volunteer Reserves and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
15. Because the Royal Air Force has had a temporary surplus of
manpower in the past few years, the requirement for Regular
Reservists has been exceptionally low. At present it is for 450
specialist Reservists.
16.
Apart from officers of the Training Branch, the Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve consists of a number of specialist members
and
those members of university air squadrons who are not committed
to full-time service in the Royal Air Force.
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