Are reservists respected by there regular comrades?
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Anonymous asked a question to Reserves
Category: Role Description
Date asked: Saturday, September 28, 2019
Last reviewed: Monday, September 30, 2019
Jake P.
Team Leader and Bugler
Speaking as a regular that has worked with reserve counterpart to respect and I think you need to understand it, so unless you’ve worked with them you don’t fully understand what they have to do.
On a personal level I would say that reserve members of the British Army are amongst the most committed people have ever met having to come from work on a Tuesday afternoon And go to the reserve centre and do some training.
And then training weekend is a whole different story, finishes his civilian job on a Friday afternoon goes to reserve Centre gets himself sorted and deploys on a exercise for a weekend to come back Sunday afternoon and then have to be up for work on Monday morning.
If a reservist Chooses to deploy on operations they basically leave the civilian life behind for a Year to get trained up to the Regular soldier level and deploy with that battalion/Company/
group.
As I said very committed people and I respect them the same as I respect any other soldier.
Monday, September 30, 2019
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