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[Ramjam]

Ok where to start......?

Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Corps of Transport and the Army Catering Corps sadly no longer exist. They were clubbed together in 1993 into the Royal Logistics Corps along with the Royal Pioneer Corps.

Their main task now is to provide logistic support for the Army.

In english they provide everything that allows the army to move, live and fight in a modern war.

Some of their other duties include sorting the army mail (29 Postal Courier and Movement Regiment RLC), EOD work (11 EOD Regiment RLC) and running the Army's only ships and railways (17 Port and Maritime Regiment (includes 79 Railway Squadron RLC).

Currently there are 24 Regts and 7 Ind Sqdrs in the regular army and a extra 17 Regts in the TA.

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Royal Army Service Corps was merged into the RCT and ROAC in 1965 (and these were merged in the RLC in 93).

[Abbott Shaull]

One has to remember back in the day when Officers could buy their rank, all a Colonel of Regiment not only purchased the title of the office. They had to recruit the troops and equip said troops, part of the reason why Colonels were so willing to sell appointments to Lt, Captain, Major and so within their Regiment too.

In the US similar thing happen up to the US-Spanish War depending on the emergency that the US found itself in. At the start of the Civil War many of the local state raised Regiments either from militia or newly raised organization joined the Army with Officer who were elected from the ranks at company level. In other cases if a person had the wealth or could organize such an undertaking would raise a Regiment and enter service as it Colonel. Of course many of these Officers didn't last too long once their Regiment entered battle. The lucky ones never seen the battlefield.