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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 and role 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 Royal 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. They number

7.

15. Apart from officers of the Training Branch, the Royal Air Force

Volunteer Reserve consists of a number of specialist members and

also those members of university air squadrons who are not committed

to full-time RAF service.

17. The Royal Auxiliary Air Force celebrated its 50th anniversary

on 9 October 1974.

CADET FORCES

18. The Cadet Forces consist of the Naval Cadet Forces, the Army

Cadet Force and the Air Training Corps, together with the Combined

Cadet Force. Their total strength on 1 January 1975 was

7.

19.

The role of the Naval Cadet Forces is currently under review.

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