Our Regiment
Active from:
1967
Role:
Tactical Air Control, gunnery instruction, specialist staff officers and naval gunfire liaison
Regimental Headquarters and the All Arms Staff Pool
Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, London, SE18 4BB
221 (Wessex) Battery Royal Artillery
Building 50, RA Barracks, Larkhill, Salisbury, SP4 8QT
255 (Somerset Yeomanry) Battery Royal Artillery
221 (Wessex) Battery
221 Battery provides specialist gunnery staff support across the Field Army, but principally to Regular and Reserve Royal Artillery units and the Royal School of Artillery.
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255 (Somerset Yeomanry) Battery
255 Battery provides Tactical Air Control Parties (TACPs), consisting of Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) and TACP Signallers to support ground forces in the control of Close Air Support (CAS) aircraft; personnel deploy either as formed TACPs or as individual augmentees.
The Battery has a cohort of experienced JTAC Instructors/Evaluators that routinely organise and deliver complex CAS training for Defence and NATO partners.
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All Arms Staff Pool
The All Arms Staff Pool (AASP) provides individual replacements to support staff officer functionality in Field Army formation Headquarters.
The AASP also includes The Kings’ Troop Royal Horse Artillery support troop and Naval Gunfire Liaison Officers (NGLO’s). NGLO’s deploy on Royal Navy and partner-nation warships to work with 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery and enable naval gunnery.
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