This webinar will be in two parts and will include the latest updates to Reserve Service Days (RSD) policies and E2 Roles within the Army Reserve.

 

Part 1 will cover:

• The move to out-put based funding model

• How Control Totals (CTs) are allocated 

• Policy refresh and updates

• Access to funding and application of funding

• Top Tips

• Questions
  

Part 2 will cover:

• Army Reserve E2 Maj & Lt Col Appts – where to find them, when to apply for one, how to apply for one and good tips for being successful at a board

• Eligibility to apply for OCE (Overseas Commitment Establishment) appointments (mobilisation)

• ACSC(R) and ICSC(LR) – when and how to apply for a place

• Regional Appointment Boards – E2 appointments at Capt and below

• Questions

   

HEAR FROM

 

Maj Lewis Hartman, SO2 Too Good To Leave (TGTL), Personnel Directorate, Army HQ

 

Maj Lewis Hartman joined the Army Reserves in 2017, after leaving the regular army with 18 years of service. He joined the Too Good To Leave (TGTL) campaign in early 2025 and has been involved in several projects, mostly in the G4 area:

• Investigating and trying to improve the Army Reserves’ access to Combat Body Armour and associated load carrying equipment
• Administering and delivering the TGTL Project BUSTED FLUSH funding for Army Reserve units’ betterment projects
• Administering the TGTL ongoing webinar series

 

 

Col Anna Swales MBE, DACOS Reserves, HQ Land Forces

 

Works in support of Mil Strat Plans (MSP), providing reserve SME for RSD and wider resourcing. Commanded 158 Regt RLC between Oct 22 - Apr 25. Prior to this, SO1 Reserves Mil Cap CSS in Army HQ. Regular career in the RLC from 2003 – 2017 before transferring to the Army Reserve. 

 

 

Maj Helena Roberts

SO2 Army Reserve Secretariat, Career Management Operations, Army Personnel Centre

 

Career Army Reservist who was employed in all the standard unit employments before finding a niche as SO2 MS (Res) at HQ 42 Inf Bde and HQ NW. Deployed on Op TELIC in 2004/5 and Op TOSCA in 2012/3. Prior to taking up a FTRS (full time Reserve service) appointment as SO2 Firm Base Plans with HQ NW in 2018, she juggled a busy civilian career as a Highway and Drainage Engineer with Reserve Service and family responsibilities. Since Nov 24 she has been employed as SO2 Army Res Sec at APC and has been able to utilise her general experience as an Army Reservist coupled with her previous MS experience to deliver Army Reserve E2 Maj and Lt Col Appointment Boards, grading boards (formerly known as Pink List and Beige list) and coordinating the loading of ACSC(R) and ICSC(LR).