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The Role of the
JERSEY FIELD
SQUADRON
Royal Engineers (Militia)
On my last day in military simultaneously conducting emergency services,
uniform, in July 2007, I was demanding expeditionary health service and local
looking forward to a relaxed operations overseas. It may authorities.
weekend packing up my seem only right that our
personal possessions and Armed Forces should provide • The skills, the equipment,
returning to Jersey on the whatever assistance they can and the capabilities of the
ferry. Soon to be a civilian, a when the need in our own Armed Forces are
much more predictable, quiet country is urgent and serious. designed for military use
life beckoned. A few hours However this is not to say that and focussed on
later, in the middle of the we should assume that they expeditionary operations.
night, I was waist-deep in cold will automatically respond to Both the applicability and
water, organising the every emergency we suffer. the public impact of
distribution of sandbags to a deploying military
very tired group of fire-fighters capabilities, skills and
as they battled to save an equipment should be taken
Electricity Sub-Station into account.
threatened by flood water
from the River Severn. The • The Armed Forces
experience brought home to themselves draw on civil
me that, although our military capabilities wherever
byGREG MENZIES
forces are trained and necessary. Armed Forces
Military Liaison Officer
organised primarily for war medical support, for
States of Jersey
fighting, their can-do attitude, example, is closely
strong command structure integrated into the NHS.
and robust logistic support Civil contractors undertake
suit them well to responding With the exception of a few most logistic, transport,

successfully to civil very specific capabilities, construction and other
The fact that the
emergencies. military aid should be as a last support tasks. This allows
Jersey Field Squadron
resort, where all other options Armed Forces personnel to
is a TA Unit is both a
On several occasions over the for mutual aid from civil concentrate on their core
strength and a
last decade, the Armed agencies and the private business, which is to
Forces have provided military sector are either insufficient or prepare for, and deploy, on
weakness in terms of
aid to the Civil Authorities, unsuitable. In this context, it is military operations. Using
emergency response

ranging from the Foot & important to bear in mind both Armed Forces personnel to
Mouth epidemic of 2001, the the qualitative and the undertake civil tasks may
Fireman’s Strike of 2003, the quantitative characteristics of damage their ability to
Buncefield Oil Depot explosion the Armed Forces: prepare for the tasks they
of 2005, and the extensive are regularly asked to
flooding in the UK in 2007. • The Armed Forces are perform in the course of
All of these tasks, and many relatively small when their normal duties.
others, were achieved by the compared to the numbers
Armed Forces while of personnel in the • The Armed Forces are not
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