Is Challenger 2 Missing From Your Life?

New for 2016, The Royal Wessex Yeomanry is now recruiting Nationally.
Are you a qualified Challenger 2 Loader, Commander or Troop Leader who left the Regular Army in the last 6 years? Did you understand that when you left the Army you may have automatically joined the Regular Reserve for up to 6 years? Would you prefer to join the Army Reserve instead and get paid?

The Royal Wessex Yeomanry is the British Army’s only Armoured Reinforcement Regiment. Our role is to provide CR2 trained individual augmentees, formed crews and formed Troops to the King’s Royal Hussars, Queen’s Royal Hussars and Royal Tank Regiment for training exercises and in the event of national emergency. Volunteer personnel from the Regiment join the Regular Armoured Regiments in BATUS, on overseas training exercises, Adventure Training and Battlefield Studies each year. If you can give us 27 days per year, we can refresh and maintain your CR2 qualifications. In return, you can expect:

• To rejoin at an agreed rank, with camaraderie and Mess life.
• Pension earning training and a paid leave day for every 10 days training completed.
• A Rail Card and travel and subsistence allowances to attend training.
• An annual Reserve training bounty of £1725 (non taxable). 
• You may also be eligible for a Regular to Reserve transfer incentive of £10,000 over 4 payments, in addition to your bounty. 
• Sport and Adventure Training opportunities.  

We appreciate that you will not be able to join us for mid-week training evenings due to the distance that you may live from our Sabre Squadron locations in the South West of England (Cirencester, Swindon, Salisbury, Bovington and Exeter). However, if you commit to a minimum 2 week consecutive training period with us at either a programmed National personnel targeted training period 10-24 Jul 16 or our Annual Training Period 03-18 Sep 16, we can arrange for you to complete your remaining bounty by earning days at a local Reserve unit location, saving you unrealistic travel time and inconvenience. Throughout you would be cap badged under the Royal Wessex Yeomanry and be administered from RHQ at Bovington. 

To find out more about the Regiment, take a look at our Army website at this link or call the RCMO on 0192940 3885. Note that this is a new initiative for 2016. The RCMO will guide you through any problems that may be encountered with the National Recruiting Centre during the early stages of the year. 

Why not join up with some of your friends and get back into the fun stuff?