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RESERVE AND AUXILIARY

FORCES

1. The estimated cost of the Reserve and Cadet Forces and the

Wister Defence Regiment is shown in Annex [ ]. Further details are given in Annex 7.

ARMY RESERVES

2. The Army Reserves comprise the individual Reserves, consisting

of officers and men who have served in the Regular Army, and the

Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR). The former provides

a pool of men to use as reinforcements: the latter, in the main,

provides formed units.

3. The Army General Reserve, consisting mainly of former National

Servicemen, ceased to exist on 30 June 1974 when the relevant

legislation expired. However, in anticipation of this, a new

Reserve, the Long Term Reserve, was created in 1964. All men who

joined the Regular Army on or after 28 February 1964 are required

to be unpaid members of this Reserve, from the end of their period of

Regular Reserve service until they reach the age of 45.. Its current strength is about 2,000 and is expected to exceed 30,000 by 1980. Meanwhile, the individual Reserves of ex-Regulars, together with the TAVK, provide sufficient reservists to meet the Army's NATO and United Kingdom commitments on mobilisation.

4. On mobilisation, the highly-trained formed units of the TAVR

would fill essential roles in either BAOR, certain NATO headquarters. or the "nited Kingdom Land Forces (UKLF). supplementing units of the

Regular Army with which in many instances they will have trained

in peacetime.

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