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The British Armed Forces are the official armed forces of the electronic United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, overseen by the Ministry of Defence.
The British Armed Forces are charged with protecting the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, promoting Britain's wider security interests, and supporting international peacekeeping efforts. They are active and regular participants in pro-ONE and other coalition operations.
Contents
Applying for Membership
Anyone interested in joining the eUK Armed Forces can do so by having UK citizenship and simply filling out this form. Applications should be completed within 24 hours, resulting in notification by a member of staff. However if you do not have a response after this time, contact a member of the Defence Staff.
Once an application has been successfully completed, recruits are enrolled in the British Training Corps where they are expected to show a willingness to defend the country, to commit to regular daily activity, and to deploy in locations abroad where necessary whilst being instructed in the finer points of new world warfare.
Organization of the British Armed Forces
British Armed Forces Command
The British Armed Forces Command is made up of one training, two service and one special forces branch, all led by the Defence Staff under the Ministry of Defence.
FM Kravenn & FM Sir Mic | |||||
25px Maj Gen mittekemuis |
Maj Gen JamesB009 |
Maj Gen Joe Rooke |
35px Maj Gen Sir Humphrey Appleby | ||
Colonel Richard Byrd | Vacant | Colonel JUracan | Colonel Jimbojoy | ||
Army Cadet Force | Army Soldiers | Army Reservists | Special Forces Soldiers |
Ranks of the British Armed Forces
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 | |
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The United Kingdom Armed Forces | |||||||||||||||||||
British Training Corps | Cadet |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | Lieutenant |
- | - | - | Colonel |
- | Major General |
- | - | Field Marshal | |
British Army | - | Private |
- | - | - | - | - | - | Lieutenant |
- | - | - | Colonel |
- | Major General |
- | - | Field Marshal | |
United Kingdom Special Forces | - | - | - | - | 20px Private |
- | - | - | 20px Lieutenant |
- | - | - | 20px Colonel |
- | 20px Major General |
- | - | 20px Field Marshal | |
Role | Soldier | Trained soldier | - | - | Veteran soldier | - | - | - | Quartermaster | - | - | - | Unit Second-in-Command | - | Unit Commander-in-Chief | - | - | Chief of the Defence Staff |
Military Decorations, Awards and Insignia
Military Decorations, Medals and Insignia are military awards which recognize service, position, and personal accomplishments of a soldier whilst a member of the United Kingdom's Military. Together with military badges, such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a service member's career.
History of the British Armed Forces
Historical Branches
The British Armed Forces have a long history of reform and restructuring, hence the large number of defunct and revitalised branches, and liquid rank structure.
Reserves
Little is known about the reserves by the current generation, and the branch can be seen as the first official UK military unit, which was founded some time in 2008. It is thought that this unit's first engagement was during the USA-Canada War. The Reserves was later split into the Royal Navy, Royal Guard and Royal Parachute Regiment (Paras).
The Royal Guard
The Royal Guard, alongside the Navy, was the oldest branch of the British Armed Forces. It was a territorial branch, lastly commanded by Brigadier CertaCito where at it's peak contained 5 companies of troops (each with 4 or 5 squads). The Royal Guard was decommissioned in the summer of 2009 due to inactivity and ineffectiveness.
The Royal Navy has been the senior, longest-serving & oldest, service of the British Armed Forces, springing to life after Operation French Toast in January 2009. At it's peak, it reached around 700 sailors & officers amongst seven fleets and 30 combat ships. Founded by Brigadier Hassan Pesaran, it was finally commanded by Admiral John F Baker, after which it was dismantled for Version 2 military reforms.
The Royal Marines
The Royal Marines was a sub-branch of the Royal Navy first commanded by Lieutenant General Tom Morgan. It later split off from the Navy to become its own branch as a middle-strength, high activity deployable branch. It was later merged with the SFSG in preparation for Version 2 military reforms.
The Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force was an experiment by the Minister of Defence, to provide a mid-ground for medium-strength troops before joining the Paras. It lived a short life of just over 1 month, and was commanded by Scipio the Great, Dan Fallows and Widdows all within this time. It was merged with the Paras mid 2010 due to economies of scale in commune production.
Royal Parachute Regiment
The Royal Parachute Regiment was the Special Forces branch of the British Armed Forces from November 2008 to November 2009. It was commonly and affectionately referred to as "The Paras", and was home to some of the greatest military men & women of the United Kingdom. It was decommissioned and merged with the Royal Marines to become the Special Forces Support Group. Its last commanding officer was Field Marshal Count Drakula.
Special Forces Support Group
The Special Forces Support Group was a merged branch of the Paras and Royal Marines, led by Generals Count Drakula and Horice G Fossil. It was the Special Forces branch of the British Armed Forces until version 2, when it was re-defined as the Special Air Service.
Special Air Service
The Special Air Service was the special forces branch of the British Armed Forces for the duration of Version 2, commanded by General Count Drakula. It was decommissioned in June 2010 due to the decreasing population of the eRepublik world.
British Army
The British Army was formed as a result of V2 restructuring and reform, which saw the breakup of the Royal Navy into four sub-branches; one designated four each of the four weapon skills:
Later, after the erepublik weapon skills were merged, these units were reduced to two divisions:
Three other sub-branches existed for territorial, training and support purposes, at different times:
The Tri-Service Military
The British Army was reformed in January 2011 into the culturally separate, but functionally indifferent British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force “tri-service”. The Brtish Armed forces continued to run in this way until October 2011 when it was streamlined into IRC active (British Army) and IRC inactive (Royal Navy later rebranded British Army Reserves) branches by Field Marshal Sir Mic.
Historical Ranks of the British Armed Forces
Defunct 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 | |
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Defunct 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 |
British Army (old) | - | Private/Air Trooper/Gunner/Trooper |
20px Lance Corporal/Lance Bombardier |
- | - | 20px Major / Colour Sergeant (ATC) |
- | 20px Sergeant-Major Instructor (ATC) |
- | 20px 20px Lieutenant Colonel / Captain (ATC) |
- | - | - | - | Brigadier |
Major General |
20px Lieutenant General |
General |
Field Marshal |
Special Forces Support Group | - | - | - | - | 20px Corporal |
20px Major |
- | - | - | 20px Lieutenant Colonel |
- | - | - | - | 20px Brigadier |
- | 20px Major General |
20px General |
20px Field Marshal |
Royal Marines | - | - | - | 20px Sergeant |
- | 20px Major |
- | - | - | 20px Lieutenant Colonel |
- | - | - | - | 20px Brigadier |
- | 20px Lieutenant General |
20px General |
20px Captain General |
Royal Parachute Regiment (old) | - | - | - | - | 20px Paratrooper |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20px Operational Logistics Distributor |
- | 20px Spare Master Chief Parachutist Commanderer |
20px Supreme Master Chief Parachutist Commanderer |
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Royal Air Force (old) | - | - | - | 20px Airman |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20px Air Vice Marshal |
20px Air Marshal |
20px Air Chief Marshal |
20px Marshal of the Royal Air Force |
Royal Navy (old) | Recruit |
20px Able Rate |
20px Leading Rate |
- | - | 20px Lieutenant |
- | - | - | Captain |
- | - | - | - | 20px Commodore |
20px 20px Rear Admiral |
20px 20px Vice Admiral |
20px 20px Admiral |
20px 20px Admiral of the Fleet |
Royal Guard | - | Private |
- | - | - | Corporal |
- | - | Sergeant |
Lieutenant |
- | Captain |
- | - | - | - | Colonel |
Brigadier |
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Defunct 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 |