The Reserve Defence Force (RDF) is comprised of the First Line Reserve (FLR), the Army Reserve (AR) and the Naval Service Reserve (NSR).
The most up to date figures available for the effective strength of the Army Reserve (AR) and Naval Service Reserve (NSR), as of 30 June 2020, are set out below:
Strength and Gender breakdown
The substantive strength of the First Line Reserve (FLR) for the same period is as follows:-
FORMATION*
|
OFFR
|
NCO
|
PTE
|
TOTAL
|
ARMY
|
1
|
13
|
137
|
151
|
AIR CORPS
|
|
4
|
21
|
25
|
NAVAL SERVICE
|
3
|
14
|
87
|
104
|
TOTAL
|
4
|
31
|
245
|
280
|
*The gender breakdown of the FLR is not available
End of month returns are collated at the mid-month point of the following month and hence July 2020 returns are not available at this time.