1982
- January - A patrol from 2 UDR carrying out a search at a supermarket, following suspicious activity and a nearby incendiary attack, challenge two men running away from the scene. The patrol then fires two shots killing one of the men. The second is found hiding on a roof nearby.
- April - 3 UDR mounts the first of a series of operations with the Royal Navy. In conjunction with the minesweeper HMS Cygnet, and utilising their own fast boat teams, the battalion searched 21 islands in Carlingford Lough.
- June - 3 UDR mounts another combined search operation with the Royal Navy.
- 8 November - During a planned operation by 5 UDR, and following an exchange of fire with terrorists, a patrol arrests Seamus Kearney, a Provisional IRA man who was wanted for other offences.
- December - Lt Jay Nethercott, commander of the operations platoon 8 UDR gives chase to gunmen who had just murdered a former UDR soldier. Opening fire on the gunmen with his 9 mm pistol, he forced them to abandon their vehicle and flee. Calling up one of his patrols in the area and mounting an immediate search operation resulted in the discovery of an Armalite rifle and the arrest of one of the gunmen. (Nethercott is awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his action.)
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