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In October 2009, the MOD was heavily criticised for withdrawing the bi-annual non-operational training £20m budget for the Territorial Army (TA), ending all non-operational training for six months until April 2010. The government eventually backed down and restored the funding. The TA provides a small percentage of the UK's operational troops.
There are various lists of government and military acronyms, expressions and slang: List of military slang terms; List of established military terms; Glossary of military abbreviations; by country. Grande Armée slang (France of the Napoleonic Era) Glossary of German military terms (Germany) List of Philippine government and military acronyms
FISH – Fighting In Someone's House (UK) (Colloquial. Slang term for FIBUA) FIST – Future Integrated Soldier Technology (UK), Fire Support Team (US) FISTV – Fire Support Team Vehicle (US) FITOW – Further Improved TOW (US) FLEA – Frangible Low-Energy Ammunition (i.e. a fragmentation grenade or a low-yield IED) FLIR – forward-looking ...
A Dictionary of Military Architecture: Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century by Stephen Francis Wyley, drawings by Steven Lowe; Victorian Forts glossary Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. A more comprehensive version has been published as A Handbook of Military Terms by David Moore at the same site
The Rag and Oil Company – Royal Army Ordnance Corps (humorous back-acronym) The Ragged Brigade – 13th Hussars [1] [56] The Ramnuggar Boys – 14th King's Hussars [1] [56] (from the Battle of Ramnagar in 1849) Rats After Mouldy Cheese – Royal Army Medical Corps (humorous back-acronym) [4] The Ready Reckoners – Highland Regiments [56]
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is war-gaming a major conflict to "stress-test" supplies of ammunition and equipment in a war time scenario. ... UK must be ready to fight war in three years, says ...
The Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Munitions and Search Training Regiment (DEMS Training Regiment) is an element of the Royal School of Military Engineering responsible for the provision of training to British Army Ammunition Technicians, Ammunition Technical Officers and Search Operators.
Headquarters, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, at MoD Shrivenham [101] Royal College of Defence Studies, at Seaford House [102] Joint Services Command and Staff College, at Watchfield [103] Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre, at Beckett House [104] Defence Centre of Training Support, at MOD Shrivenham; Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme [105]