Sponsored Reserves

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Sponsored Reserves are a category of reserve forces in the British Armed Forces, created by the Reserve Forces Act (1996) in order to allow certain support tasks to be carried out by trained professionals. These are tasks that must be carried out by service personnel in war time and other higher risk operations but can be carried out by civilians in peace time operations. For example flight attendants on personnel transport flights generally do not need to be military unless the area being flown into is dangerous, or weather information at home stations can be provided by civilians but in theatre information will still be required so the people that provide such information must be in the armed forces. These roles would be uneconomic to staff with military personnel and so having reserves prevents front line troops being pulled off operations to perform second or third line jobs.

Members of the reserve units undergo training to allow them to function as members of the force while in theatre and while deployed they are subject to the rules and regulations, and all other conditions, of regular service life. This allows for the specialist knowledge to be provided by uniformed personnel.[1] [2] [3]

The first sponsored reserve unit was the Mobile Meteorological Unit, providing mainly aviation weather services to the RAF and the Army Air Corps[4]. Other Sponsored Reserve Units are being developed in line with the Strategic Defence Review.

  1. ^ Armed Forces.co.uk
  2. ^ NATO website
  3. ^ MOD document archive
  4. ^ Met Office press release
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