Being a member of the REME TA is not hard work all the time and has many benefits, some less obvious than others.

Pay

You get paid a daily rate or fraction of , for each training session you attend, i.e. if you complete a Drill Night you will get a quarter days pay. Daily rates of pay are the same as those of regular soldiers except for a reduced amount of X factor.

Travelling Expenses - You will receive travelling expenses for each journey that you make to a training session whether it be by public transport or private car.

Training Bounty - At the End of the training year if you complete your training commitment and passed your annual training tests you will be paid a tax free bounty of up to £1560.

Adventure

It goes without saying that the training you will receive to train you to be a soldier will be full of adventure.

But it doesn't stop there, throughout your time with the TA you will continue to receive training that will test you.

You will also get the opportunity to take part in Adventurous Training, climbing, abseiling, sailing, canoeing and skiing to name but a few.

Travel

You will be given the opportunity to travel, in the last year we have deployed soldiers as far a field as Brunei and Belize. See the map below for all the destinations that we have deployed our soldiers to in recent years.

Life Skills

As a REME TA soldier you will be constantly training. Through that training you will gain new skills, broaden your horizons  and grow in confidence.

Some of  the skills you will learn are directly transferable to civilian life such as first aid training but others will be less obvious.

These little improvements in your confidence and abilities will enable you to take life's challenges in your stride. They may be small changes to you but will be glaringly obvious to others around you.

Driving Licence

If the job you do in the TA requires you have a driving licence we will pay you to gain that licence, you could in time, find yourself with a full C+E licence and be able to drive the biggest trucks on the road.

Comradeship

You will meet many new people from many different walks of life, you will share experiences with them and in time they will become firm friends who you know you can rely on and trust.