Places in new Special Forces signals regiment are open to all cap badges
A MAJOR recruiting drive is under way to fill posts in the new 18th (UKSF) Signal Regiment, formed in April to provide highly-versatile communications assets to all United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF).
The unit, part of the Government’s post-September 11 commitment to global counter-terrorism, will provide personnel with an opportunity to support, as signallers, all major SF units.
The regiment has absorbed existing SF signal squadrons and will be reinforced by two new ones.
A five-day briefing “taster” will give volunteers from any cap badge a flavour of the main selection procedure and those who want to go ahead will be put forward for a 25-week Special Forces Communicator (SFC) course to be run twice a year, every May and November.
Course organisers have said that gradual training will help candidates to overcome the physical elements of the course.
Likewise, extensive communications training will be given to those who volunteer, as will parachute, military and other specialist training.
Successful candidates who complete the course will qualify for SFC pay, currently nearly £10 a day.
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The new regiment can trace its roots back to 18 Sig Regt, which was created to provide comms in the Far East in 1959 and disbanded in 1971.
