Army Reserve (AR) (Irish: Cúltaca an Airm) is the reserve land component of the Irish Defence Forces. It is the second line reserve of the Irish Army...
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establishment of 7,520, and a reserve establishment of 3,869. Like other components of the Defence Forces, the Irish Army has struggled to maintain strength...
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Corps, Naval Service, and Reserve Defence Forces. The Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces is the President of Ireland. All Defence Forces officers...
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personnel may make up shortages in regular units. Ireland's Army Reserve is an example of such a reserve. With universal conscription, most of the male population...
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Army Reserve refers to a land-based military reserve force, including: Army Reserve (Ireland) Army Reserve (United Kingdom) Australian Army Reserve Canadian...
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The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army. It is separate from the Regular Reserve whose members are ex-Regular personnel...
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partial list of the equipment of the Irish Army, the land component of the Irish Defence Forces. While the Army Ranger Wing has access to a wider variety...
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The Reserve Defence Forces (RDF) (Irish: Na hÓglaigh Cúltaca) are the combined reserve components of the Irish Defence Forces. The RDF is organised into...
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AR-15–style rifle, rifles based on ArmaLite's AR-15 Army Reserve (Ireland), the land component of the Irish Reserve Defence Forces (RDF) Ar (city), in ancient...
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1 January 2024,[update] the British Army comprises 75,166 regular full-time personnel, 4,062 Gurkhas, 26,244 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,557 "other personnel"...
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Unlike the Army or the Naval Service, the Air Corps does not maintain a reserve component. The National Army Air Service was independent Ireland's first air...
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1922 and disbanded, replaced by a brigade-level Army Reserve formation, 38 (Irish) Brigade, in 2009. Ireland was partitioned in mid-1921. On 7 December 1922...
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North Irish Yeomanry (SNIY) is a reserve light cavalry regiment created in 2014 as part of the restructuring of the British Army's Army Reserve. It is...
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The Army Ranger Wing (ARW) (Irish: Sciathán Fianóglach an Airm, "SFA") is the special operations force of the Irish Defence Forces, the military of Ireland...
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Regiment) 152 (North Irish) Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, at Palace Barracks, Holywood (Fuel Storage and Transport Regiment) (Army Reserve) 162 Postal Courier...
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The modern Irish Army uniform is based on the layer principle, and is designed to provide soldiers in the Irish Army with the right degree of protection...
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Black and Tans (redirect from Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force)
"RIC Special Reserve", such as the Irish police researcher Jim Herlihy. However, historians agree that they were not a separate reserve force but "recruits...
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of the Reserve Defence Forces (RDF) of the Irish Defence Forces, the other element being the Army Reserve (AR). The NSR was established on 1 October 2005...
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part of the Regular army and the remaining 16 a part of the Army Reserve. The British Army's Infantry takes on a variety of roles, including armoured, mechanised...
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This is a list of Irish military installations occupied by the Defence Forces (including Army, Air Corps, Naval Service and Reserve Defence Forces) in...
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) of 1922–1969 was a sub-group of the original pre-1922 Irish Republican Army, characterised by its opposition to the Anglo-Irish...
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South Irish Horse was a Special Reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army. Formed as an Imperial Yeomanry regiment in 1902 as the South of Ireland Imperial...
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North Irish Yeomanry When a regiment is given as n + n battalions, the first number is regular army battalions, and the second is Army Reserve battalions...
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Perkins 2007, Rank Markings (Slider) - Officers. "Army Rank Markings". military.ie. Defence Forces (Ireland). Archived from the original on 25 April 2016...
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(1998). "The Irish Harp Emblem". Wolfhound Press, Dublin. ISBN 978-0-8632-7635-4. "NSR Crest – Naval Service Reserve – Organisation – Reserve – Defence Forces"...
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The Reserve Army was a field army of the British Army and part of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War. On 1 April 1916, Lieutenant-General...
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until 1997, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an armed paramilitary campaign primarily in Northern Ireland and England, aimed at ending...
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includes the Reserve Defence Forces (Army Reserve and Naval Service Reserve) for part-time reservists. Ireland's special forces include the Army Ranger Wing...
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Army reserve brigades in World War I. At the start of the war volunteers in the vast majority of cases joined their local infantry regiment's reserve...
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Throughout its history, the Irish Army has used a number of armoured fighting vehicles. During the Irish Civil War thirteen Rolls-Royce armoured cars armed...
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