Life in the Royal Signals - Army Corps

Communications is a vital part of not only the Army but the military as a whole. Without communications there is no command and control. It is the umbrella which covers everything that happens on the battlefield. Everything we do relies on information and for information to be secure and effective we need a branch of the Army that specialises in doing that. The Royal Signals is a technical cap badge. We fall into the role of combat command support. We provide communications to the command elements of the wider Army. On a deployment we'd be there from the very beginning, setting up the communications, running them throughout and then very last to leave. We are all over the world, wherever the British Army has a footprint. We very much link in with other cap badges as well as the RAF or the Navy, ensuring they can communicate effectively. We are all tradesmen and soldiers, so all of our soldiers and officers have technical training to make them become specialists in their field. And that's using a variety of different systems, from basic radios to satellites and information systems, to allow us to globally communicate. The Royal Signals is more important than ever in my opinion because communications is more important than ever. We pride ourselves on being leaders in the digital age. The capability that we have and the equipment that we work with are at the cutting edge of technology. The Royal Signals is a technical corps, however it entirely depends on what job you're doing as to how technical you are at any given time. So we've got everything from the electronic warfare aspect to the combat logistics specialist. I'm a communications systems engineer. I'm an installation technician. Electronic warfare operator. Communication logistics specialist. Communication systems operator. I'm a Royal Signals electrician. So I wanted to join the Royal Signals because I see the soldiers as being the future of the British Army and it definitely jumped out as something that was exciting for me. I just wanted something different, something out of the ordinary and out of my comfort zone. It was the technical aspect of what the corps offers, the standard of the soldier that we have in the corps, and it just ticked a number of personal boxes for me that I thought, yeah, that's what I want to do, that's where I want to be. We are a key component of the British Army's fighting power. All CAT badges within the Army rely on Royal Signals soldiers and officers, therefore we're seen as a vital element of the wider machine that is the Army.