Army

New Role For 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment

An infantry unit that spent 15 years with 16 Air Assault Brigade is learning to drive into battle.

Soon 1 R IRISH should be a fully fledged Light Mechanised Infantry unit

1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment has transferred to the British Army’s embryonic Adaptable Force, which is designed to help bring conflicts to an end and then stabilise warzones.

1 Royal Irish’s ability to do that, with a fleet of versatile new vehicles, is being tested in the final weeks of a validation exercise to make it the Army’s first Light Mechanised Infantry Battalion.

From the US Army’s Hohenfels Training Facility in Bavaria, Rob Olver reports.

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