335 Medical Evacuation Regiment

335 Medical Evacuation Regiment is the British Army’s dedicated medical evacuation unit. A specialist unit of the Army Reserve, the Regiment develops the skills and experience of its soldiers and officers in pre-hospital emergency care and medical evacuation so that they are ready to deploy on operations and exercises around the world. The Regiment is tasked to provide a forward medical evacuation capability, from point of injury rearwards, and is the focal point for Medical Emergency Response Teams (MERT) within the Army Reserve. It also provides a tactical medical evacuation capability, including high dependency in-transit care, and can generate a range of other mounted and dismounted medical assets such as Pre-Hospital Treatment Teams (PHTT). All this is done via the range of Army ambulance platforms, including the Battlefield Ambulance (BFA), protected mobility ambulances (Mastiff and Ridgeback) and tracked armoured ambulances (Samaritan and Bulldog). The Regiment has three Squadrons each compromising of a number of Forward and Tactical Medical Evacuation Troops and each Squadron is paired with one of the Regular Army’s three Armoured Medical Regiments. 335 Medical Evacuation Regiment recruits qualified and student doctors, nurses and paramedics as well as non-clinical people who want to train as a combat medical technician, human resources specialist or driver. Although their headquarters is in York, as a specialist unit they recruit Reservists nationally and train throughout the UK and overseas. They do not meet weekly and for that reason the minimum commitment is less at 19 days each year. There is no minimum length of service. The Regiment has a long and illustrious history which can be traced back to the ambulance trains of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Since its formation in 2005, personnel have deployed on operations in Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iraq, South Sudan and Sierra Leone.