05-18-2006, 04:48 AM
LLOEGR-CYMRU FORCES new draft
'''[[Lloegr-Cymru]]''' has very small defence forces to preserve its national sovereignty and provide aid to the civil power. All three forces are collectively called the Lloegr-Cymru Forces.
The Forces' three arms of service are the Republican Navy (including the [[Lloegr-Cymru Navy#Republican Marines|Republican Marines]] and [[Lloegr-Cymru Navy#Fleet Air Arm|Fleet Air Arm]]), the Army (including [[Lloegr-Cymru Army#Supporting branches|The Aviation Regiment]]), and the Republican Air Force (including [[Lloegr-Cymru Republican Air Force#Higher commands|The RAF Regiment]]). Separate government-dominated boards and service staffs oversee each service.
==Command==
As German military theorist Major General [[wikipedia:Carl von Clausewitz|Carl von Clausewitz famously said, war is diplomacy conducted by other means. Thus overall civil direction of the armed forces is overseen by the joint civilian-military Defence Council. Its civilian political members include the Prime Minister (currently Geraint Llewelyn) and one or more of the Secretary of State for Defence (currently Simon Gwylyms), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (currently Mary Gryffydd) and the Interior Minister (currently Sarah Monmouth). Each political minister is represented by a non-partisan civil service Permanent Undersecretary.
The highest ranking Forces officer and First Defence Member is the Chief of the Defence Staff, almost always an Admiral but sometimes a General or Air Marshal instead. The Second Defence Member and Deputy Chief of Defence Staff doubles (or rather triples!) as Chief of the Naval Staff. The third through seventh Defence Members hold concurrent command on the Defence Staff, and may be called in by their superiors to give advice or address the Defence Council but not vote.
The Third Defence Member and Chief of Combined Operations is a naval Captain or equivalent. The three principal subordinates are the Head of Amphibious Operations Commander or Major (RM or Army), Head of Airborne Operations Major (RM or Army) or Squadron Commander, and Head of Intelligence Commander or equivalent.
The Fourth Defence Member and Chief of Personnel is a naval Captain or equivalent with two principal subordinates. The Head of Social Welfare is a Commander or equivalent, with one naval Lieutenant and Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent in each [[#Districts|District]]. The Head of Recruiting is a naval Lieutenant or equivalent, and has Sub-Lieutenants or equivalent in each District.
The Fifth Defence Member and Chief Comptroller is a naval Captain or equivalent assisted by a naval Commander or equivalent. Each District has a naval Lieutenant or equivalent as Comptroller and a Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent as Assistant Comptroller. Aberystwyth and Gwyneth each have an extra AC because of their special situations.
The Sixth and Seventh Defence Members head the [[#Chaplaincy|Chaplaincy]] and [[#Heath services|Republican Army Medical Corps]], both discussed separately below in their own sections.
==Ranks==
Because of the Forces' small size relative to the population and the republic's of bad experiences with civil war and peerage oppression, they have a rather flat hierarchy compared to many [[real world]] and [[roleplaying|roleplaying]] equivalents. And although English is the official language of government, ranks have semi-official parallel Welsh titles as well.
{| align=right border=1 cellpadding=2
|+Table of comparative ranks
|-
! width="10%"|Navy !! width="10%"|Welsh !! width="10%"|Army/Marines !! width="10%"|Welsh !! width="10%"|Air Force !! width="10%"|Welsh
|-
|Admiral || Llyngesydd || General || Cadlywydd || Air Marshal || Llyngesydd Awyrgylch
|-
|Captain (N)* || Capten Llong || Colonel* || Milwriad || Wing Captain* || Capten Awyrgylch
|-
|Commander || Capten Dinistrio || Major || Uchgapten || Squadron Commander || Gorchymynmr Awyrgylch
|-
|Lieutenant (N) || Capten Ysgraff || Captain (A) || Capten (Byddinog) || Flight Lieutenant || Is-gapten Awyrgylch
|-
|Sub-Lieutenant$ || Is-gapten || Lieutenant (A)$ || Rhaglaw || Flight Sub-Lieutenant$ || Is-gapten Awyrgylch
|-
|Warrant Officer@ || Swyddog Arwaesaf || Warrant Officer@ || Swyddog Arwaesaf || Warrant Officer@ || Swyddog Arwaesaf
|-
| Petty Officer || Penslongwr || Sergeant || Rhingyll || Flight Sergeant || Rhingyll Awyrgylch
|-
| Leading Rating || Penslongwr Cynorthwyol || Corporal || Rhingyll Cynorthwyol || Flight Corporal || Rhingyll Cynorthwyol Awyrgylch
|-
| Ordinary Rating || Llongwr + || Private+ || Milwr+ || Flight Private+ || Milwr Awyrgylch
|-
|colspan=6|*Most senior officer in the service or corps holding the appointment -- not rank of -- Commodore, Colonel Commandant or Air Commodore as appropriate
|-
| colspan=6|$Most junior officer on the real or notional ship, in the regiment or wing called Midshipman, Ensign or Flying Officer.
|-
| colspan=6|@Holds various appointments, e.g., Company Sergeant Major, Master Air Crew, Regimental Sergeant Major.
|-
|}
In peacetime there is one Admiral, General or Air Marshal in the Forces as a whole; four Admirals; one General; and one Air Marshal. The seven flag officers, general officers commanding and air officers commanding hold at least one and frequently several concurrent commands in each Service or the Forces generally.
Welsh naval ranks are defined in relationship to the concept of ships capten or captain for officers, and llongwr or sailors for ratings. English and Welsh air ranks model themselves on naval ranks for officers and army ranks for other ranks.
==Personnel==
Enlistment into the Forces is voluntary in peacetime, creating a small but professional defence forces capable of rapid expansion when prompted by wartime and then rapid contraction when peace is restored. The official period of enlistment is 20 years, but most of this is spent in the reserves. Each arm of service also maintains a parttime auxiliary, those of the navy called the RN Volunteer Reserve, the army the [[Lloegr-Cymru Army#Regiments|Territorial Army]] and the air force the RAF Volunteer Reserve.
All ranks are motivated by patriotism and the desire to serve their country, but the officers and other ranks have their own separate motivators. Most military trades have civilian applications, e.g., Navy stevedores work in ports and officers can pilot merchant ships; Air Force air crew can maintain aircraft and pilots fly aircraft; and Army engineers can construct buildings and medical professionals can work in hospitals. Only in the sharp trades ? naval weapons, rifle and artillery, and air weapons ? not unexpectedly have limited civilian application, but even those veteran can work in the private security or physical fitness fields.
Junior officers -- Sub-Lieutenant and Lieutenant or equivalent ? typically spend ten years on active service, retiring in their early thirties. Senior officers ? Commander, Captain (Navy) or equivalent -- typically serve their entire enlistment on active service. Finally, those in the highest ranks -- Admirals, General or Air Marshals -- are often appointed after their 20 years is up and serve at the pleasure of the Defence Council.
Officers enjoy high social status, and the small size of the professional Forces gives them cachet as an exotic. On the practical size, experience commanding subordinates and directing large organisations is easily applied to their civilian career once their military career is over.
Other ranks are most often motivated by a desire to leave the boredom of the countryside or the anomie of the cities, and of course for a job. In fact, joining the Forces is known as taking the Republic's swllt or shilling. Somebody motivated purely by money is disparagingly called an arian.garwr or mercenary, even though they do not meet the technical definition since they are citizens of the country in whose armed forces they serve.
==Districts==
Each island-province plus the capital city have a senior officer holding concurrent appointment as commander of the static troops in the Forces district. Aberystwyth District, as befits the national capital, is commanded by the CDS personally. The district?s static troops are LCS ??Aberystwyth?? (including B Company [[Lloegr-Cymru Republic Navy#Republican Marines|Republican Marines]]) under a naval Captain, RAF Aberystwyth (including A Company The RAF Regiment) and the largely ceremonial Presidential Brigade.
Abertawe District, a unitary city-province-island jurisdiction, is commanded by the Admiral concurrently Flag Officer Fleet Air Arm and Flag Officer LCS ??Abertawe??, the latter of which includes C Company RM. The air force?s forward operating airfield is RAF Abertawe and under the command of a Flight Lieutenant. Voluntary reserve forces are LCS ??Anchors?? RNVR and The Abertawe Regiment (Territorial Army).
Caerdydd District is a unitary city-province-island jurisdiction devoted to training of all three services. It is under command of the Admiral concurrently Flag Officer Shore at LCS ???Caerdydd??? (including D and G (Trg) Companies RM). The junior service has bases at Camp Caerdydd (Army) and RAF Caerdydd (including B Company The RAF Regiment) under a Squadron Commander. Local forces consist of LCS ??Aye?? (RNVR), The Caerdydd Regiment (TA) and No. 93 Squadron (RAFVR).
Ceredigion District is commanded by the Admiral concurrently Chief of the Naval Staff located at LCS ??Ceredigion's second city?? and whose base defence is provided by F Company RM. The other Regular bases are rounded out by Camp ??? in Ceredigion's third city and RAF Ceredigion's second city (including B Squadron The RAF Regiment). Voluntary Reserve forces are LCS ??Ready?? (RNVR), The Ceredigion Regiment (TA) and No. 90 Squadron (RAFVR).
Gwyneth District?s commander is concurrently the Air Marshal serving as Chief of the Air Staff at RAF Caernarfon (including C Coy The RAF Regiment). Besides the minor base at RAF Gwyneth's second city, there are home defence forces amounting to LCS ??Able?? (RNVR), The Gwyneth Regiment (TA) and No. 91 Squadron (RAFVR).
Powys District, a pastoral island-province, is commanded by the General concurrently Chief of the General Staff at Camp Llandrindod (Army), whose only other Regular base is a forward airfield at RAF Llandrindod under a Flight Lieutenant. Volunteer forces consist of LCS ??Aweigh?? (RNVR) and The Powys Regiment (TA).
Ynys M?n Distict, whose area is largely covered by national parks, is headed by an Army Colonel concurrently Commanding Officer 4th Brigade (Infantry) and Camp Llangefni. The forward airfield, commanded by a Flight Lieutenant, is located at
RAF Llangefni. Home defence is the responsibility of LCS ??Willing?? (RNVR) and The Ynys Mon Regiment (TA).
==Chaplaincy==
Although it is very small compared to the other branches of service, the importance of the Army Chaplaincy in what is officially called the Holy and Serene Republic cannot be denied. Religion, and specifically the Roman Catholic religion, was the raison d'?tre of Lloegr-Cymru. Indeed, freedom of worship for non-conformist religious was not granted until 1902 and Catholic bishops are still ''ex officio'' members of the House of Peers. Each battalion or similar unit has a priest appointed to oversee the spiritual welfare of the soldiers and inspire them to kill on command. The Chaplain General is jointly appointed Simon Gwylyms, Secretary of State for Defence, and Archbishop Rhys ap Llew, Spirituality Minister.
The Chief of Chaplaincy, naval Captain or equivalent, is concurrently Sixth Defence Member. He ? and for reasons which become clear, always a he ? and his naval Commander or equivalent deputy concern themselves with the spiritual welfare of all those serving in the Forces. For this purpose, the Chaplain General directs about 70 priests and ministers of religion at various districts, bases, units and formations. Chaplains wear the uniforms of the troops to which they minister, or of whatever arm of service they prefer if they are attached to a unit or base consisting of two or more arms of service.
Since 1972, as part of a policy to reach out to non-Catholics, the Chaplaincy has three Non-Conformist branches located at the Forces level: the Protestant Chaplaincy (a naval Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants or equivalent, plus the padre of 2nd Battalion The Lloegr Fowlers and LCS ??Abertawe??); the Jewish Chaplaincy (one rabbi as a Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent); and the Other Chaplaincy (Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent). Additionally, the Outreach Chaplaincy under a Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent ministers to atheists, agnostics, undeclared and other non-believers.
The Head Chaplain of the Navy, a Commander, is responsible for about
17 priests:
*LCS ??Abertawe??: Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants (plus one Protestant)
*LCS ??Aberystwyth??: Sub-Lieutenant
*LCS ??Caerdydd??: Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants
*The seven or so destroyers and carriers: Sub-Lieutenant each as ship?s Padre
*LCS ??Ceredigion's second city??: Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants.
The Head Chaplain of the Army is a Major responsible for 26 priests. Every full-sized Regular battalion gets a Lieutenant as Padre who moves with the unit, plus each of the four brigade bases gets a Captain as a static Padre. The chaplain of 2nd Battalion The Loegr Fowlers is a Protestant.
The Head Chaplain of the Republican Air Force is a Squadron Commander. All of the chaplains are based at RAF stations: a Flight Lieutenant, one Pilot Officer (plus one Protestant) at RAF Aberystwyth; one Pilot Officer at RAF Ceredigion's second city; a Flight Lieutenant and two Pilot Officers (plus one Protestant) at RAF Caernarfon; and a Flight Lieutenant two Pilot Officers (plus one Protestant) at RAF Caerdydd.
==Health services==
A Colonel serves concurrently as Seventh Defence Member, Chief of Health Service and Commander Republican Army Medical Corps. For political reasons, the office is not known as Surgeon General as it is in many RL and RP armed forces.
As its name implies, the RAMC used to be the health branch for the Army only. However, as the need grew, it took over the responsibilities for the entire Forces while retaining its historic name. The Republican Army Medical Corps has several components divided by training and professional governing body:
#Cynorthwywr meddygol milwrol (Military Orderlies), whose badge is stretcher
#Deintyddion milwrol (Military Dentists), whose badge is a tooth
#Ffisigwyr milwrol (Military Physicians), whose badge is an Asklepian
#Gweinyddesau milwrol (Military Nurses), whose badge and sometime cap is a white nurse?s hat
#Llawfeddygon milwrol (Military Surgeons), whose badge is a red-white-and-blue barber?s pole, dating from the medieval period when all trades of the knife had a single governing body
#Milfeddygon milwrol (Military Veterinarians), whose badge is a horse.
[[Category:Lloegr-Cymru]]
[[Category:Armed forces]]
'''[[Lloegr-Cymru]]''' has very small defence forces to preserve its national sovereignty and provide aid to the civil power. All three forces are collectively called the Lloegr-Cymru Forces.
The Forces' three arms of service are the Republican Navy (including the [[Lloegr-Cymru Navy#Republican Marines|Republican Marines]] and [[Lloegr-Cymru Navy#Fleet Air Arm|Fleet Air Arm]]), the Army (including [[Lloegr-Cymru Army#Supporting branches|The Aviation Regiment]]), and the Republican Air Force (including [[Lloegr-Cymru Republican Air Force#Higher commands|The RAF Regiment]]). Separate government-dominated boards and service staffs oversee each service.
==Command==
As German military theorist Major General [[wikipedia:Carl von Clausewitz|Carl von Clausewitz famously said, war is diplomacy conducted by other means. Thus overall civil direction of the armed forces is overseen by the joint civilian-military Defence Council. Its civilian political members include the Prime Minister (currently Geraint Llewelyn) and one or more of the Secretary of State for Defence (currently Simon Gwylyms), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (currently Mary Gryffydd) and the Interior Minister (currently Sarah Monmouth). Each political minister is represented by a non-partisan civil service Permanent Undersecretary.
The highest ranking Forces officer and First Defence Member is the Chief of the Defence Staff, almost always an Admiral but sometimes a General or Air Marshal instead. The Second Defence Member and Deputy Chief of Defence Staff doubles (or rather triples!) as Chief of the Naval Staff. The third through seventh Defence Members hold concurrent command on the Defence Staff, and may be called in by their superiors to give advice or address the Defence Council but not vote.
The Third Defence Member and Chief of Combined Operations is a naval Captain or equivalent. The three principal subordinates are the Head of Amphibious Operations Commander or Major (RM or Army), Head of Airborne Operations Major (RM or Army) or Squadron Commander, and Head of Intelligence Commander or equivalent.
The Fourth Defence Member and Chief of Personnel is a naval Captain or equivalent with two principal subordinates. The Head of Social Welfare is a Commander or equivalent, with one naval Lieutenant and Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent in each [[#Districts|District]]. The Head of Recruiting is a naval Lieutenant or equivalent, and has Sub-Lieutenants or equivalent in each District.
The Fifth Defence Member and Chief Comptroller is a naval Captain or equivalent assisted by a naval Commander or equivalent. Each District has a naval Lieutenant or equivalent as Comptroller and a Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent as Assistant Comptroller. Aberystwyth and Gwyneth each have an extra AC because of their special situations.
The Sixth and Seventh Defence Members head the [[#Chaplaincy|Chaplaincy]] and [[#Heath services|Republican Army Medical Corps]], both discussed separately below in their own sections.
==Ranks==
Because of the Forces' small size relative to the population and the republic's of bad experiences with civil war and peerage oppression, they have a rather flat hierarchy compared to many [[real world]] and [[roleplaying|roleplaying]] equivalents. And although English is the official language of government, ranks have semi-official parallel Welsh titles as well.
{| align=right border=1 cellpadding=2
|+Table of comparative ranks
|-
! width="10%"|Navy !! width="10%"|Welsh !! width="10%"|Army/Marines !! width="10%"|Welsh !! width="10%"|Air Force !! width="10%"|Welsh
|-
|Admiral || Llyngesydd || General || Cadlywydd || Air Marshal || Llyngesydd Awyrgylch
|-
|Captain (N)* || Capten Llong || Colonel* || Milwriad || Wing Captain* || Capten Awyrgylch
|-
|Commander || Capten Dinistrio || Major || Uchgapten || Squadron Commander || Gorchymynmr Awyrgylch
|-
|Lieutenant (N) || Capten Ysgraff || Captain (A) || Capten (Byddinog) || Flight Lieutenant || Is-gapten Awyrgylch
|-
|Sub-Lieutenant$ || Is-gapten || Lieutenant (A)$ || Rhaglaw || Flight Sub-Lieutenant$ || Is-gapten Awyrgylch
|-
|Warrant Officer@ || Swyddog Arwaesaf || Warrant Officer@ || Swyddog Arwaesaf || Warrant Officer@ || Swyddog Arwaesaf
|-
| Petty Officer || Penslongwr || Sergeant || Rhingyll || Flight Sergeant || Rhingyll Awyrgylch
|-
| Leading Rating || Penslongwr Cynorthwyol || Corporal || Rhingyll Cynorthwyol || Flight Corporal || Rhingyll Cynorthwyol Awyrgylch
|-
| Ordinary Rating || Llongwr + || Private+ || Milwr+ || Flight Private+ || Milwr Awyrgylch
|-
|colspan=6|*Most senior officer in the service or corps holding the appointment -- not rank of -- Commodore, Colonel Commandant or Air Commodore as appropriate
|-
| colspan=6|$Most junior officer on the real or notional ship, in the regiment or wing called Midshipman, Ensign or Flying Officer.
|-
| colspan=6|@Holds various appointments, e.g., Company Sergeant Major, Master Air Crew, Regimental Sergeant Major.
|-
|}
In peacetime there is one Admiral, General or Air Marshal in the Forces as a whole; four Admirals; one General; and one Air Marshal. The seven flag officers, general officers commanding and air officers commanding hold at least one and frequently several concurrent commands in each Service or the Forces generally.
Welsh naval ranks are defined in relationship to the concept of ships capten or captain for officers, and llongwr or sailors for ratings. English and Welsh air ranks model themselves on naval ranks for officers and army ranks for other ranks.
==Personnel==
Enlistment into the Forces is voluntary in peacetime, creating a small but professional defence forces capable of rapid expansion when prompted by wartime and then rapid contraction when peace is restored. The official period of enlistment is 20 years, but most of this is spent in the reserves. Each arm of service also maintains a parttime auxiliary, those of the navy called the RN Volunteer Reserve, the army the [[Lloegr-Cymru Army#Regiments|Territorial Army]] and the air force the RAF Volunteer Reserve.
All ranks are motivated by patriotism and the desire to serve their country, but the officers and other ranks have their own separate motivators. Most military trades have civilian applications, e.g., Navy stevedores work in ports and officers can pilot merchant ships; Air Force air crew can maintain aircraft and pilots fly aircraft; and Army engineers can construct buildings and medical professionals can work in hospitals. Only in the sharp trades ? naval weapons, rifle and artillery, and air weapons ? not unexpectedly have limited civilian application, but even those veteran can work in the private security or physical fitness fields.
Junior officers -- Sub-Lieutenant and Lieutenant or equivalent ? typically spend ten years on active service, retiring in their early thirties. Senior officers ? Commander, Captain (Navy) or equivalent -- typically serve their entire enlistment on active service. Finally, those in the highest ranks -- Admirals, General or Air Marshals -- are often appointed after their 20 years is up and serve at the pleasure of the Defence Council.
Officers enjoy high social status, and the small size of the professional Forces gives them cachet as an exotic. On the practical size, experience commanding subordinates and directing large organisations is easily applied to their civilian career once their military career is over.
Other ranks are most often motivated by a desire to leave the boredom of the countryside or the anomie of the cities, and of course for a job. In fact, joining the Forces is known as taking the Republic's swllt or shilling. Somebody motivated purely by money is disparagingly called an arian.garwr or mercenary, even though they do not meet the technical definition since they are citizens of the country in whose armed forces they serve.
==Districts==
Each island-province plus the capital city have a senior officer holding concurrent appointment as commander of the static troops in the Forces district. Aberystwyth District, as befits the national capital, is commanded by the CDS personally. The district?s static troops are LCS ??Aberystwyth?? (including B Company [[Lloegr-Cymru Republic Navy#Republican Marines|Republican Marines]]) under a naval Captain, RAF Aberystwyth (including A Company The RAF Regiment) and the largely ceremonial Presidential Brigade.
Abertawe District, a unitary city-province-island jurisdiction, is commanded by the Admiral concurrently Flag Officer Fleet Air Arm and Flag Officer LCS ??Abertawe??, the latter of which includes C Company RM. The air force?s forward operating airfield is RAF Abertawe and under the command of a Flight Lieutenant. Voluntary reserve forces are LCS ??Anchors?? RNVR and The Abertawe Regiment (Territorial Army).
Caerdydd District is a unitary city-province-island jurisdiction devoted to training of all three services. It is under command of the Admiral concurrently Flag Officer Shore at LCS ???Caerdydd??? (including D and G (Trg) Companies RM). The junior service has bases at Camp Caerdydd (Army) and RAF Caerdydd (including B Company The RAF Regiment) under a Squadron Commander. Local forces consist of LCS ??Aye?? (RNVR), The Caerdydd Regiment (TA) and No. 93 Squadron (RAFVR).
Ceredigion District is commanded by the Admiral concurrently Chief of the Naval Staff located at LCS ??Ceredigion's second city?? and whose base defence is provided by F Company RM. The other Regular bases are rounded out by Camp ??? in Ceredigion's third city and RAF Ceredigion's second city (including B Squadron The RAF Regiment). Voluntary Reserve forces are LCS ??Ready?? (RNVR), The Ceredigion Regiment (TA) and No. 90 Squadron (RAFVR).
Gwyneth District?s commander is concurrently the Air Marshal serving as Chief of the Air Staff at RAF Caernarfon (including C Coy The RAF Regiment). Besides the minor base at RAF Gwyneth's second city, there are home defence forces amounting to LCS ??Able?? (RNVR), The Gwyneth Regiment (TA) and No. 91 Squadron (RAFVR).
Powys District, a pastoral island-province, is commanded by the General concurrently Chief of the General Staff at Camp Llandrindod (Army), whose only other Regular base is a forward airfield at RAF Llandrindod under a Flight Lieutenant. Volunteer forces consist of LCS ??Aweigh?? (RNVR) and The Powys Regiment (TA).
Ynys M?n Distict, whose area is largely covered by national parks, is headed by an Army Colonel concurrently Commanding Officer 4th Brigade (Infantry) and Camp Llangefni. The forward airfield, commanded by a Flight Lieutenant, is located at
RAF Llangefni. Home defence is the responsibility of LCS ??Willing?? (RNVR) and The Ynys Mon Regiment (TA).
==Chaplaincy==
Although it is very small compared to the other branches of service, the importance of the Army Chaplaincy in what is officially called the Holy and Serene Republic cannot be denied. Religion, and specifically the Roman Catholic religion, was the raison d'?tre of Lloegr-Cymru. Indeed, freedom of worship for non-conformist religious was not granted until 1902 and Catholic bishops are still ''ex officio'' members of the House of Peers. Each battalion or similar unit has a priest appointed to oversee the spiritual welfare of the soldiers and inspire them to kill on command. The Chaplain General is jointly appointed Simon Gwylyms, Secretary of State for Defence, and Archbishop Rhys ap Llew, Spirituality Minister.
The Chief of Chaplaincy, naval Captain or equivalent, is concurrently Sixth Defence Member. He ? and for reasons which become clear, always a he ? and his naval Commander or equivalent deputy concern themselves with the spiritual welfare of all those serving in the Forces. For this purpose, the Chaplain General directs about 70 priests and ministers of religion at various districts, bases, units and formations. Chaplains wear the uniforms of the troops to which they minister, or of whatever arm of service they prefer if they are attached to a unit or base consisting of two or more arms of service.
Since 1972, as part of a policy to reach out to non-Catholics, the Chaplaincy has three Non-Conformist branches located at the Forces level: the Protestant Chaplaincy (a naval Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants or equivalent, plus the padre of 2nd Battalion The Lloegr Fowlers and LCS ??Abertawe??); the Jewish Chaplaincy (one rabbi as a Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent); and the Other Chaplaincy (Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent). Additionally, the Outreach Chaplaincy under a Sub-Lieutenant or equivalent ministers to atheists, agnostics, undeclared and other non-believers.
The Head Chaplain of the Navy, a Commander, is responsible for about
17 priests:
*LCS ??Abertawe??: Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants (plus one Protestant)
*LCS ??Aberystwyth??: Sub-Lieutenant
*LCS ??Caerdydd??: Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants
*The seven or so destroyers and carriers: Sub-Lieutenant each as ship?s Padre
*LCS ??Ceredigion's second city??: Lieutenant and two Sub-Lieutenants.
The Head Chaplain of the Army is a Major responsible for 26 priests. Every full-sized Regular battalion gets a Lieutenant as Padre who moves with the unit, plus each of the four brigade bases gets a Captain as a static Padre. The chaplain of 2nd Battalion The Loegr Fowlers is a Protestant.
The Head Chaplain of the Republican Air Force is a Squadron Commander. All of the chaplains are based at RAF stations: a Flight Lieutenant, one Pilot Officer (plus one Protestant) at RAF Aberystwyth; one Pilot Officer at RAF Ceredigion's second city; a Flight Lieutenant and two Pilot Officers (plus one Protestant) at RAF Caernarfon; and a Flight Lieutenant two Pilot Officers (plus one Protestant) at RAF Caerdydd.
==Health services==
A Colonel serves concurrently as Seventh Defence Member, Chief of Health Service and Commander Republican Army Medical Corps. For political reasons, the office is not known as Surgeon General as it is in many RL and RP armed forces.
As its name implies, the RAMC used to be the health branch for the Army only. However, as the need grew, it took over the responsibilities for the entire Forces while retaining its historic name. The Republican Army Medical Corps has several components divided by training and professional governing body:
#Cynorthwywr meddygol milwrol (Military Orderlies), whose badge is stretcher
#Deintyddion milwrol (Military Dentists), whose badge is a tooth
#Ffisigwyr milwrol (Military Physicians), whose badge is an Asklepian
#Gweinyddesau milwrol (Military Nurses), whose badge and sometime cap is a white nurse?s hat
#Llawfeddygon milwrol (Military Surgeons), whose badge is a red-white-and-blue barber?s pole, dating from the medieval period when all trades of the knife had a single governing body
#Milfeddygon milwrol (Military Veterinarians), whose badge is a horse.
[[Category:Lloegr-Cymru]]
[[Category:Armed forces]]