'Reservists'

Is that common use for British English (as opposed to Yanks)?

They have been using on the news all day , have heard the term 'territorial reserve' used in the past, as well as 'The reserve'

Is this the media making/applying shit words again?

Always the TA or I think "on reserve" when I was growing up, Kit

Kit wrote:Is that common use for British English (as opposed to Yanks)?

They have been using on the news all day , have heard the term 'territorial reserve' used in the past, as well as 'The reserve'

Is this the media making/applying shit words again?

dunno, probably!

Bastards , 'normalcy' still irks me as well

Kit wrote:Bastards , 'normalcy' still irks me as well

me too lol

Across the world, anything that ends in "-iveness" when there's a perfectly good noun in existence fucks me off no end. It's an instinctiveness I have.

I think reservists and the TA are different.someone once told me, probably wrongly, that when you leave the army youre a reservist for so long.

morning_glory wrote:I think reservists and the TA are different.someone once told me, probably wrongly, that when you leave the army youre a reservist for so long.

They are, MG, but you can be demobbed into the reserve and affiliated through a TA barracks, especially in a big city.