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Ref: FOI 2021/03638 4 August 2021 . Dear . Thank you for your correspondence of 25 February 2021 requesting the following information: "I would be grateful if you could assist me with DS (Air) statistics for a matter I am dealing with, the details of which are: Trade: RAF Pilot Length of service: New Entrant
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- Introduction
- Policy Background
- UK Service Personnel
- Full-Time Trained Strength
- UK Regular Personnel
- Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) Programme Monitoring
- Separated Service
- Applications to The Armed Forces
- Further Information
This publication contains information on the strength, intake, outflow and gains to trained strength for the UK Armed Forces overall and each of the Services; Royal Navy/Royal Marines (RN/RM), Army and Royal Air Force (RAF). The Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced on 29 June 2016 that it was changing the Army trained, disciplined service personnel ...
The main factors affecting decisions about the size of the Armed Forces required by the MODto achieve success in its military tasks include: 1. An assessment of current and future threats to UK national security; 2. The need for contingent / reactive capability – the requirement to be able to respond immediately to domestic or international crisis;...
UK Service Personnel comprise the total strength of the military personnel employed by the Ministry of Defence ( Excel tables, Table 1). The current Strength of the UK Armed Forces is 193,890 which includes: 1. All UK Regular personnel and all Gurkha personnel (which combined at 1 July 2022 comprised 77.6 per cent of UK Service Personnel); 2. Volun...
The FTTS and FTTTS total has decreased between 1 July 2021 and 1 July 2022 by 0.9 per cent (1,220 personnel). The RN/RM remained stable, the Army decreased by 1.4 per cent and the RAFhas decreased by 0.6 per cent as shown in Table 2. Table 2: FTTS and FTTTS The FTTS and FTTTStotal gradually increased between 1 July 2020 and 1 July 2021 but has been...
As at 1 July 2022, the Trained and Untrained Strength of the UK Regular Forces was 146,270. The Service split for this figure can be found in Table 5 below. There are 10,520 Untrained personnel in the UK Regular Forces, of which 4,340 are in the RN/RM, 2,660 in the Army and 3,520 are in the RAF. The Untrained Strength reflects the number of personn...
Following consultation on changes to the Army Trained Strength definition and the removal of the FR20 Intake targets, the MOD released Future Reserves 2020 Trained Strength growth profiles in a Written Ministerial Statementon 8 November 2016. Reporting of the growth of the Reserves will be based on Trained Strength profiles only. Following initial ...
Separated service measures absence from normal place of duty. The time an individual experiences separated service is compared against each Service’s “Individual Harmony” guidelines to ensure a balance between duty and leisure for all Service personnel. A breach of individual harmony guidelines occurs when Service personnel experience separated ser...
The figures in this publication include applications to the UK Regular and Volunteer Reserve Forces. They are broken down by Service, and by Officers and Other Ranks. Applications that do not result in Intake The main causes of applicant failure(i.e. no offer to join the Services given) include: 1. Failing security clearance; 2. Failing the medical...
Rounding
Apart from the Applications section, all figures in this publication have been rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in a “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent the systematic bias caused by always rounding numbers upwards. For example; a value of “25” would be rounded down to “20” and a value of “15” would be rounded up to “20”.Additionally, totals and sub-totals are rounded separately and so may not equal the sums of their rounded parts. Percentages are ca...
Revisions
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Dec 9, 2021 · Figure 8 shows that as at 1 April 2021 the RAF Reserves Trained Strength was 2,890. This is an increase of 150 personnel (5.4 per cent) since 1 April 2020. The RAF Reserves total strength as at 1 ...
- This publication contains information on the strength, intake, outflow and gains to trained strength for the UK Armed Forces overall and each of th...
- The main factors affecting decisions about the size of the Armed Forces required by the MOD to achieve success in its military tasks include: An as...
- Strength is the number of personnel. UK Regulars are full-time Service personnel, including Nursing Services, excluding FTRS personnel, Gurkhas, mo...
- The Full-time Trained Strength (FTTS) Royal Navy/Royal Marines and Royal Air Force (RN/RM & RAF) and Full-time Trade Trained Strength (FTTTS) (Army...
- Table 3: Comparison of Full-Time Trained and Trade-Trained Strengths (Army) 01-Apr-20 01-Jul-20 01-Oct-20 01-Jan-21 01-Apr-21 Full-Time Trained Str...
- As at 1 April 2021, the Trained and Untrained Strength of the UK Regular Forces (which excludes Gurkhas) was 149,280. The Service split for this fi...
- Future Reserves 2020 includes Volunteer Reserves who are mobilised, High Readiness Reserves and those Volunteer Reserves serving on Full-time Reser...
- Separated Service concerns personnel who are serving away from their usual place of duty or are unable to enjoy leisure at their place of duty or r...
- The figures in this publication include applications to the UK Regular and Volunteer Reserve Forces. They are broken down by Service, and by Office...
- RoundingApart from the Applications section, Figures in this publication have been rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in a “5” have b...
Dec 15, 2022 · The number of applications to the RAF Regular Forces in the 12 months to 31 December 2021 was 26,626, a decrease of 32.3 per cent compared to the 12 months to 31 December 2020 (39,351). Over the ...
in the past 12 months (1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021) An increase of 680 (13.6 per cent) compared with the previous 12 month period 5,650People left the Future Reserves 2020 in the past 12 months (1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021) An increase of 890 (18.8 per cent) compared with the previous 12 month period Published 9 December 2021
at 1 July 2021 An increase of 5,340 (2.8 per cent) since 1 July 2020 137,390Full-time Trained Strength (RN/RM & RAF) and Full-time Trade Trained Strength (Army) at 1 July 2021 An increase of 5,140 (3.9 per cent) since 1 July 2020 17,350People joined the UK Regular Armed Forces in the past 12 months (1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021)
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