Training
22. Training for Sponsored Reserves will vary according
to the task they are asked to perform. However, the Regulations
state that "it is essential that all Sponsored Reserve personnel
are sufficiently well trained in military skills to function in
an operational environment without endangering or being a liability
to other military personnel."[79]
Whilst we welcome such training for Sponsored Reserves, we
remain concerned that Sponsored Reservists could not, in extremis,
be expected to serve as infantrymen.[80]
We look to the MoD to ensure that the military training given
to Sponsored Reserves is appropriate and relevant to the task;
in particular with regard to their proximity to the front line.
79 Sponsored Reserve Regulations Chapter 2 2.034 Back
80
Eighth Report, Session 1997-98, The Strategic Defence Review,
HC138-I, para 273 Back
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