The Reserves are made up by soldiers whose regular term of service have already expired. A soldier who is discharged from the regular armed forces is placed on reserve status for the next 10 years. This applies to all branches of the royal armed forces. Soldiers keep their rank and job positions in the reserve service.
The reservist reports for two weeks training every six months. In the event that the Reserves are called up, they go into training for 3 weeks before deployment.
As new soldiers finishes their term of service they go into the reserve replacing the a soldier that has been in reserve the longest. Depending on the amount of recruited men, the number of those who stay on as career officers and the time a soldier was put in reserves, a Reservist may not have to fulfill the ten year requirement.
The ten year reserve obligation ensures that the Realm can nearly quadruple it's armed forces in the time of need and ensure that the Realm is always prepared to defend the homeland or her interest abroad. In even that the entire Reserve system was activated and mobilized it's strength would stand at:
Royal Legions - 953,600 combat/485,140 support
Royal Air Corps - 11,520 combat/19,520 support
Royal Fleets - 247,324 combat/143,428 support
The Reserve system keeps enough equipment to arm a third of the legions and enough planes to equip a fourth of the air corps. Several of the older Valon class carriers and Monarch class destroyers are kept on hand in the event they are needed. As equipment becomes outdated and replaced it goes into a decommissioned stanby status in case it is needed. The Reserve System acts on the plan that Reserves will most likely be called up as replacement troops and the equipment needed will already be there or in production but the system still holds back enough equipment in the emergency case of that not happening.
