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Contents 1 Organization of the British Army 1.1 Rank Structure 2 History of the British Army 2.1 January 2011 Reforms 2.2 June 2011 Reform 2.3 October 2011 Reform 3 Generic ranks 4 Links & References

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British Army

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The British Army is the IRC active, mobile branch of the British Armed Forces.

Organization of the British Army

Rank Structure

NATO Code	OR-1	OF-1	OF-5	OF-7	OF-10
Rank	Private	Lieutenant	Colonel	Major General	20px Field Marshall
Abbreviation	Pte	Lt	Col	Maj Gen	FM

History of the British Army

Unit Commanders, British Army

From	To	Commander-in-Chief British Army
			Major General Betafoxtrot
			Major General Gambit8
			Major General JamesB009
July 2011			Major General Lionbeard
	November 2011		Major General NikSerb
November 2011	Incumbent		Major General JamesB009

The British Army began in April 2010 after wide-spread military reforms, in preparation for Erepublik V2, dissolved the Royal Navy and Special Forces Support Group. After the reforms, the British Army was not a branch, but a group of branches:

• British Army
  • Infantry
  • Royal Armoured Corps
  • Royal Artillery
  • Army Air Corps
  • And later also the Army Training Corps

At this time, there was no commanding officer for the Army, and control was handed directly to the Chief of the General Staff, responsible also for the United Kingdom Special Forces.

January 2011 Reforms

After further changes to the battlefield module the British Armed Forces underwent further structural reforms and with the reintroduction of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force as independant branches, the British Army became one arm of the British Armed Forces, tri-service organization.

It was further split into regiments:
Grenadier Guards
King's Regiment

June 2011 Reform

In June another reform came to the Armed Forces. The British Army lost its regiments in favour of the simpler command structure of a Commander-in-Chief with the possiblity of assigning two Commanding Officers.

Gambit8 was the first "Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces" after the June Reforms, and opted for a single Commanding Officer, JamesB009.

October 2011 Reform

In the October reforms of 2011 the British Army was singled out to be the main, active fighting force of the British Armed Forces, first with the closure of the RAF and then with the reform of the Royal Navy into an IRC inactive branch.

It was subsequently decided to rename the Royal Navy the British Army Reserves.

Generic ranks

Military Branch	OR-1	OR-2	OR-3	OR-4	OR-5	OR-6	OR-7	OR-8	OF-1	OF-2	OF-3	OF-4	OF-5	OF-6	OF-7	OF-8	OF-9	OF-10	OF-11
The United Kingdom Armed Forces
																		Office of the General Staff	Chief of the General Staff
	Trainee	Soldier				Regiment 2IC				Regiment CO					Staff Officer	General Staff Officer		General Officer Commanding

Links & References

• British Army Military Unit
• British Army Forum
• Military Information

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