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The Cayman Islands is a British overseas territory (BOT). Its defence is therefore the responsibility of the United Kingdom. The Governor of the Cayman Islands is the Crown's (Charles III) Representative on the islands. Consequently, the Cayman Islands Regiment is under the control of the Governor, who acts as Commander-in-Chief of the Regiment.
Royal Gibraltar Regiment - 1 + 0 battalion [42] Royal Bermuda Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion [43] Royal Montserrat Defence Force - 0 + 1 platoon [44] Cayman Islands Regiment - 0 + 1 company [44] Turks and Caicos Regiment - 0 + 1 platoon [44] Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company [45]
Cayman Islands – The Cayman Islands Regiment is the home defence unit of the Cayman Islands. It is a single territorial infantry battalion of the British Armed Forces that was formed in 2020. [93] Turks and Caicos – The Turks and Caicos Islands Regiment is the home defence unit of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos ...
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The Cayman Islands (/ ˈ k eɪ m ən /) is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
The development of the Cayman Islands Regiment was finalized by 2019 with a visit from the UK Minister for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster. Recruitment began in late 2019 and the Regiment became operational in 2020.
The British Government is currently (2020) working with the local governments of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands to raise reserve military units in those territories, also, with recruitment for the new Cayman Islands Regiment starting in January 2020. [3] [4] [5]
As British Overseas Territories, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands have all established locally-recruited units which are reserve components of the British Army. [1] [27] The most recently established of these is the Turks and Caicos Islands Regiment, which was officially raised in April 2020. [28] [29] [30]