62nd Reserve Artillery Regiment (Ireland)
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[edit] Background
62 Reserve Artillery Regiment is a combat support unit of 2 Eastern Reserve Brigade of the Irish Reserve Defence Forces. The Regiment maintains field gun batteries in the Defence Forces Training Center in the Curragh, Co. Kildare and at McKee Barracks in Dublin City, and draws its members from all walks of life in the Kildare, Offaly and North Dublin areas.
62 Regiment was formed by the amalgamation of 6 and 7 Field Artillery Regiments following the re-organisation of the Reserve Defence Forces in 1995/6.
[edit] Organisation
62 Regiment comprises a Regimental Headquarters, Headquarters battery and 3 Field Gun Batteries.
The Army Reserve comprises three brigades, organised along the standard infantry brigade model, plus the Reserve Defence Forces Training Authority. The brigades mirror the organisation of the Permanent Defence Force and each unit within the Reserve Brigades has an affiliated Permanent Defence Force unit with which it has a direct working and support relationship.
Brigade Units, such as 62 Reserve Artillery Regiment, are affiliated with similar units in the relevant Brigade of the Permanent Defence Force.
[edit] Weaponry
25pdr, L119 and L118 105mm Light Gun.
[edit] 2 Eastern Reserve Brigade
2 Eastern Reserve Brigade is affiliated with the 2 Eastern Brigade of the Permanent Defence Force. In this capacity it may be called upon to provide support to the 2 Eastern Brigade in the security and administrative roles in the counties of Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Monaghan, Meath and Wicklow.
