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Royal Auxiliary Air Force - Includes details of recruitment, the history of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and a description of its role.

Territorial Army - Provides information about the activities and locations of the TA, including an interactive map and details of careers.

275 Railway Squadron - The TA Railway Operators - An introduction to the Territorial Army's railway operators: 275 Railway Squadron RLC(V). Includes role, organisation, training and advice for potential volunteers, plus a brief look at the history of military railways.

You Need The TA - Today's Territorial Army is a vital force of national necessity, providing one quarter of the British Army. You can learn new skills, meet new friends, have fun and get paid for it.

210 Squadron RLC(V) - 210 Transport Squadron, The Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers). 210 Squadron is part of the reserve forces of the British Army.

East Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association - Describes the role of the Reserve Forces and Cadets in the East Midlands, plus information on how to join.

Royal Navy Reserve - Gives details of the command structure, the terms of service and remuneration.

The National Employers Liaison Committee - Index Page - Liaises between employeers and the MOD concerning issues involving the Volunteer Reserves of the Armed Forces.

SaBRE - Provides information on the Reserve Forces and what they entail for reservists and employers.

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(Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Reserve Forces "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Reserve Forces Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Reserve Forces "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Reserve Forces "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Reserve Forces I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Reserve Forces Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Duct tape is like the Force. 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