62nd Reserve Artillery Regiment (Ireland)
The 62nd Reserve Artillery Regiment is a combat support unit of 2nd Eastern Reserve Brigade of the Irish Reserve Defence Forces. The Regiment maintains field gun batteries in the Defence Forces Training Center in the Curragh, Co. Kildare and at McKee Barracks in Dublin City, and draws its members from all walks of life in Kildare, Offaly and North Dublin areas.The members are volunteer reservists with no specific criteria essential to enlist apart from a basic medical examination.
62nd Regiment was formed by the amalgamation of 6th and 7th Field Artillery Regiments following the re-organisation of the Reserve Defence Forces in 2005/06.
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