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The Royal Rifle Volunteers is a regiment of the British Territorial Army. HistoryThe Regiment was formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of elements of the 6th/7th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets due to the reforms of the Territorial Army implemented due to the Strategic Defence Review. It is the infantry component of 145 (Home Counties) Brigade. Its HQ is based at Reading and comprises 4 companies:
In 2003 the Royal Rifle Volunteers took part in a major exercise NATO in the Eastern European country of Lithuania. In 2004 a platoon of the RRV was dispatched to Iraq which was part of the Multi-National Division (South East).
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