Quick: "Mechanised Infantry" Double Fast: "Keel Row/Road to the Isles" Slow: "Old Salamanca"
Commanders
Colonel in Chief
The Queen
Colonel Commandant
Lieutenant-General Thomas Copinger-Symes[1]
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Arm Badge
Croix de Guerre From Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
Abbreviation
RIFLES
Military unit
The Rifles is an infantry regiment of the British Army. Formed in 2007, it consists of four Regular battalions and three Reserve battalions. Each Regular battalion of The Rifles was formerly an individual battalion of one of the two large regiments of the Light Division (with the exception of the 1st Battalion, which is an amalgamation of two individual regiments). Since formation, the regiment has been involved in combat operations in the later stages of the Iraq War and in the War in Afghanistan.
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