Reserves

Are you the kind of person who rises to a challenge – one that sets you apart from your neighbours and workmates?

Volunteering your spare time to train with the Reserve Forces – and achieving the very highest standards in order to serve on operations alongside the Regulars – is as big a challenge as you can find.

More than 2,000 men and women with homes, families and jobs all over the South West of England make that commitment as members of The Royal Naval Reserve, the Royal Marines Reserve, the Territorial Army and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.

It’s exciting and rewarding and makes them integral and essential elements of Britain's Armed Forces, whether on drug-running patrols with the Royal Navy, taking on the Taliban in Afghanistan or evacuating casualties from Iraq.

In return they get the chance to develop new skills and long-lasting friendships, to earn extra cash tax-free and to shine in a very different environment from work and home life.