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Originally Posted by Agemegos
Infantry officer? I thought he'd been deployed while in the Blues & Royals (a cavalry Guards regiment) and the Army Air Corps.
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The Blues and Royals is his regiment, but officers can get lent out to other units. His service in Afghanistan was as a forward air controller, with a Ghurkha unit. So he was serving with an infantry unit, but was not an infantry officer AFAICS. He's now with the Army Air Corps.
In the British Army, your regimental identify is
important. You can transfer to a different regiment, but it's a big deal, almost as much so as transferring to the Royal Navy or RAF. But a regimental identity is a social thing: a regiment is not a combat formation in the way it is in many other armies. An infantry regiment contains one or more battalions. If several battalions are deployed together, they are formed into a brigade, and it's unlikely that the battalions will be from the same regiment.