specfore SG Urmmm... not true. I was from a reserve unit that was single digit number ! Like I said, there is some logic in the numbering plus the fact that we need to disguise true strength.
specfore SG Urmmm... how about making the SAF look bigger ??!! If there was something like 123 SIR..... the enemy may think that we have one hundred infantry BNs ! You see... the mis-information works... even us reservists are scratching our heads wondering where all the units are in the ORBAT and why the number sequence does not tally. Just imagine those "outside folks" who are trying to figure this one out also.
iveco SG Why do artillery units all start with 2xx, eg 275 SA, while armour units start with 4xx, eg 465 SAR? On the other hand, infantry unit numbers are jumbled up, eg 188 SIR, 556 SIR, 692 SIR. Same story with guards, eg, 90 GDS, 581 GDS, 636 GDS.
specfore SG I don't know. I heard that there are some reserve units that are meant for "war attrition" replacements, they only report nominally to a higher command , but may be deployed to replace a depleted unit under another command. Could be the higher numbers are a kind of reserve- reservists unit... I'm really guessing here.
bcoy SG Its just a number - for infantry and guards reservist units, it started with 2 digit numbers, then the 5xx series in the earlier part of the 90s' - and now its the 6xx series. As each battalion finishes full time NS - it is assigned a new number in the reserves. The numbers may not be in running order and the number increases for each batch that move into the reserves. Its up to the planners at the top to come up with the new series after 6xx. (7xx??) Numbers are not reused after the units have ROD. 90 Gds has just ROD.
Rachmaninoff SG Reservist units are not usually assigned 2 figure but 3 figure codes instead. For instance, if a certain reservist unit was derived from the 5th mono intake of 42 SAR, then it would be named 425 SAR.
Gordonator SG all these different theories of reverist units on how they got their numbering is driving me nuts.
specfore SG .... exactly... as I said in an earlier post, if it confuses us, it will confuse others !!!
