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The Army runs two Scholarship Boards each year for boys and girls aged between 16 and 17. The board is similar in many ways to the Main Board, with a fitness test, interviews, planning exercise and leadership tasks. The process takes 24 hours, and is tailored to suit candidates in this age range.
The Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS) is a university sponsorship programme for students who want to join the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force or Engineering and Science branch of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Civil Service as technical officers after they graduate; Army sponsored students are destined for either the Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Electrical and Mechanical ...
Defence companies of the United Kingdom. ... British Aircraft Corporation (1 C, 22 P) C. Coventry Ordnance Works (1 C, 5 P) E. Elswick Ordnance Company (1 C, 5 P)
There can be as many as seven companies within RMAS at any one time. There can be additional companies of Army Reserve or 'professionally qualified officers' in the Academy who take part in shorter (1–2 months) commissioning courses. Each company is commanded by a major and named after a famous battle or campaign in which the British Army fought.
The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other government departments and service personnel from other nations. The Director General of the Defence Academy is Lieutenant General Thomas Copinger-Symes, a senior Army officer.
List of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter is an incomplete list of organisations based in the United Kingdom that have received a royal charter from an English, Scottish, or British monarch. There are over 900 bodies which have a UK royal charter. [1] and a list of these is published by the Privy Council Office. [2]
[2] [3] The oldest of these organisations was the Militia Force (also referred to as the 'Constitutional Force'), [4] whereby the Reserve Forces units mostly lost their own identities, and became numbered Territorial Force sub-units of regular British Army corps or regiments (the Home Militia had followed this path, with the Militia Infantry ...
Army 2020 was the name given to the restructuring of the British Army, in light of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.. On 1 April 2018, the Army Recruiting and Training Division was disbanded.