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An Army Training Regiment (ATR) is a unit of the British Army which conducts basic training for all new recruits, less those of the Infantry who are trained at the ITC (Infantry Training Centre) at Catterick North Yorkshire, and some non-infantry TA units (see below). The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces.

All new recruits, whether Regular or Territorial Army, are required to pass the Common Military Syllabus (Recruits) (CMS(R)), commonly known as Phase 1. The Territorial Army ( TA) is the principal and Volunteer reserve force of the British Army, the land armed forces branch of the United Kingdom For regular recruits this is 14 weeks[1], for TA recruits this initial training is carried out over weekends at a Regional training centre followed by 2 weeks at an ATR. Regional Training Centres were created from the previously existing Specialist Training Teams to provide training for the United Kingdom Territorial Army (TA Not all TA recruits are trained at an ATR; for example, recruits for TA units of the Royal Military Police complete their CMS(R) at Worthy Down, near Winchester and recruits to UKSF(R) and the Honourable Artillery Company complete CMS(R) with their own units. The Royal Military Police ( RMP) is the branch of the British Army responsible for the policing of service personnel and providing a Military police Winchester or Winton ( archaic) is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40000 within a radius of its centre The United Kingdom Special Forces ( UKSF) is a UK Ministry of Defence Directorate which also has the capability to provide a Joint Special Operations The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC is the oldest surviving Regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior in the

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Objectives

Phase 1 is a 14 week course, Recruits are expected to pass training objectives (TOs) in the following subjects:

Each of the TOs is of equal importance in terms of preparing the recruit for phase 2 training and future employment in the field army, but the overruling factor is TO 10, as, without these qualities, all else is irrelevant. The SA80 ( Small Arms for the 1980s) is a family of 556 mm small arms designed and produced (until 1988 by the Royal Small Arms Factory at A weapon of mass destruction ( WMD) is a weapon which can kill large numbers of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e The ATR looks at qualities which are bred into recruits as the "core values" of the British Army:

Common Military Syllabus (Recruits)

Military skills

Adventure training

Locations

ATR Bassingbourn

ATR Lichfield

ATR Pirbright

ATR Winchester

References

  1. ^ ATR Lichfield description of CMS(R)
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