# Structure of the British Armed Forces

This is the structure of the British Armed Forces.

## Ministry of Defence

* Ministry of Defence, at Main Building, Whitehall
** Secretary of State for Defence
*** Minister of State for Defence Procurement and Industry
*** Minister of State for Defence
*** Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces
*** Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People and Veterans
** Defence Council of the United Kingdom
*** Defence Board
*** Admiralty Board
*** Army Board
*** Air Force Board
** Chiefs of Staff Committee
*** Chief of the Defence Staff
**** Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations)
**** Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Financial and Military Capability)
**** Chief of Defence People
*** Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff
*** First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
*** Chief of the General Staff
*** Chief of the Air Staff
*** Commander Strategic Command

### Defence Infrastructure Organisation

* Headquarters, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, at DMS Whittington
** Ministry of Defence Guard Service
** Northern Ireland Security Guard Service
** Defence Fire and Rescue Service, at Marlborough Lines
** Defence Training Estate, at Waterloo Lines
*** Headquarters, Defence Training Estate Wales & West Midlands, at Sennybridge Training Area
*** Headquarters, Defence Training Estate South East, at Hythe
*** Headquarters, Defence Training Estate South West, at Wyvern Barracks
*** Headquarters, Defence Training Estate North East, at Wathgill Camp
*** Headquarters, Defence Training Estate North West, at Warcop Training Area
*** Headquarters, Defence Training Estate East, at West Tofts Camp
*** Headquarters, Defence Training Estate Scotland, at Forthside Barracks
*** Headquarters, Salisbury Plain Training Area, at Westdown Camp

### Defence Equipment and Support

* Headquarters, Defence Equipment and Support, at MoD Abbey Wood
** British Forces Post Office, at RAF Northolt
** Defence Equipment Sales Authority, at MoD Bicester
** Defence Standardization, at Kentigern House, Glasgow
** Defence Munitions
*** RNAD Coulport
*** DM Crombie
*** DM Beith
*** DM Plymouth
*** DM Glen Douglas
*** DM Gosport
*** DM Kineton

### Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

* Headquarters, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, at Porton Down
** DSTL Portsdown West
*** Defence Wargaming Centre
** DSTL Alverstoke
** DSTL Newcastle

### Ministry of Defence Police

* Headquarters, Ministry of Defence Police, at RAF Wyton
** Criminal Investigation Department
** Nuclear Guard Force
** Special Escort Group, at AWE Aldermaston
** Operational Support Units
*** Operational Support Unit North
*** Operational Support Unit South
** Central Support Groups
*** Central Support Group Aldershot
*** Central Support Group Bicester
*** Central Support Group Menwith Hill

### Defence Safety Authority

* Headquarters, Defence Safety Authority, at Main Building, Whitehall
** Military Aviation Authority, at MoD Abbey Wood
** Military Air Accident Investigation Branch
** Land Accident Prevention and Investigation Team
** Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator
** Defence Maritime Regulator
** Defence Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives Safety Regulator
** Defence Land Systems Safety Regulator
*** Land Systems Safety Regulator
*** Defence Movement and Transport Safety Regulator
*** Defence Fuel and Gas Safety Regulator
*** Defence Fire Safety Regulator

### Defence Nuclear Organisation

* Headquarters, Defence Nuclear Organisation, at Main Building, Whitehall
** Warhead Directorate

### Defence Business Services

* Headquarters, Defence Business Services, at MoD Abbey Wood
** DBS Civilian HR

### Defence Electronics and Components Agency

* Headquarters, Defence Electronics and Components Agency, at MoD Sealand

### Oil and Pipelines Agency

* Headquarters, Oil and Pipelines Agency, at Petty France, Westminster
** Campbeltown Oil Fuel Depot
** Garelochhead Oil Fuel Depot, at HMNB Clyde
** Gosport Oil Fuel Depot, at HMNB Portsmouth
** Loch Ewe Oil Fuel Depot
** Loch Striven Oil Fuel Depot
** Thanckes Oil Fuel Depot, at HMNB Devonport
** Plumley and Cape of Good Hope (oil storage)

### United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

* Headquarters, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, at Taunton

### Submarine Delivery Agency

* Headquarters, Submarine Delivery Agency, at MOD Abbey Wood

### Service Prosecuting Authority

* Headquarters, Service Prosecuting Authority, at RAF Northolt

### Non-departmental Organisations

* Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust
* Single Source Regulations Office, at Finlaison House, London
* Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors
* Armed Forces' Pay Review Body
* Defence Nuclear Safety Committee
* Independent Medical Expert Group
* Nuclear Research Advisory Council
* Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons
* Defence Science Expert Committee
* Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees
* Advisory Group on Military Medicine
* Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee
* Service Complaints Ombudsman
* United Kingdom Reserve Forces Association
* National Army Museum, at Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea
* National Museum of the Royal Navy
** National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool, at Jackson Dock, Hartlepool
** National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, at HMNB Portsmouth
** Royal Marines Museum, at HMNB Portsmouth
** Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
** Fleet Air Arm Museum, at RNAS Yeovilton
** Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower, at Gosport
* Royal Air Force Museum
** Royal Air Force Museum London, at Hendon Aerodrome
** Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, at RAF Cosford

### Reserve Forces and Cadets Association

* East Anglia Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* East Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* Greater London Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* Highland Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* Lowland Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* Northern Ireland Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* North of England Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* North West of England and Isle of Man Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* South East Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* Wales Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* Wessex Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* West Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
* Yorkshire and the Humber Reserve Forces and Cadets Association

## Strategic Command

* Headquarters, Strategic Command, at Northwood Headquarters, Eastbury
** Defence Digital, at MoD Corsham
*** ISS Boddington
** Joint Arms Control Implementation Group, at RAF Henlow
** Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, at MoD Shrivenham

### Permanent Joint Operating Bases

* British Forces Cyprus
** Joint Service Signal Unit (Cyprus), at Ayios Nikolaos Station
** Cyprus Communications Unit, at RAF Akrotiri
** Cyprus Operations Support Unit, at RAF Akrotiri
** Cyprus Joint Police Unit, at Episkopi Cantonment
** Joint Services Health Unit, at RAF Akrotiri
** No. 84 Squadron RAF, at RAF Akrotiri (Search and Rescue)
** Roulement Infantry Battalion
** Roulement Infantry Battalion
** Cyprus Military Working Dog Troop, at Episkopi Cantonment
** Sovereign Base Areas Police, HQ at Episkopi Cantonment
* British Forces South Atlantic Islands, at RAF Mount Pleasant
** Naval Party 2010, at Mare Harbour
** HMS Forth, at Mare Harbour
** Roulement Infantry Company (RIC)
** Resident Sky Sabre Battery (RSSB)
** Falkland Islands Joint Logistics Unit
** Resident Engineer Unit
** Falkland Islands Support Unit
** Joint Communications Unit Falkland Islands
** Joint Services Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit
** Joint Services Provost and Security Unit
** Joint Services Signals Unit
** No. 905 Expeditionary Air Wing RAF
*** No. 1312 Flight RAF, (A400M Atlas, Voyager KC2)
*** No. 1435 Flight RAF, (Eurofighter Typhoon)
* British Forces Gibraltar
** Royal Gibraltar Regiment, at Devil's Tower Camp
** Gibraltar Squadron, RN, at Port of Gibraltar
** RAF Gibraltar
** Joint Provost and Security Unit, at Gibdock
** Gibraltar Defence Police, at Gibdock
* British Forces British Indian Ocean Territories, at Diego Garcia
** Naval Party 1002, at Diego Garcia

### Defence Intelligence

* Headquarters, Defence Intelligence, at Main Building, Whitehall,
** Joint Forces Cyber Group
*** Joint Cyber Unit (Reserve), at Northwood Headquarters
**** Reserve Cyber Unit, Royal Naval Reserve
**** No. 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF, at RAF Northolt
**** No. 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron RAuxAF, at Cardiff
**** Land Information Assurance Group, (British Army), at MoD Corsham
** Joint Forces Intelligence Group, at RAF Wyton
*** Defence Intelligence Fusion Centre, at RAF Wyton
*** National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence, at RAF Wyton
*** Defence Geographic Centre, at MoD Feltham
*** Joint Services Signals Organisation, at RAF Digby
*** Defence HUMINT Unit
*** Joint Aeronautical and Geospatial Organisation, at RAF Wyton
*** No. 1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit
** Joint Intelligence Training Group, at RAF Chicksands
*** Defence College of Intelligence, at RAF Chicksands
*** Defence School of Photography, at RAF Cosford
*** Royal School of Military Survey, at Denison Barracks

### Defence Medical Services

* Headquarters, Defence Medical Services, at DMS Whittington
** Surgeon-General of the UK Armed Forces
** Director of Medical Personnel and Training
*** Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
**** Defence School of Healthcare Education, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
**** Defence Medical Academy, at DMS Whittington
** Director Healthcare Delivery and Training
*** Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre, at Stanford Hall
*** Defence Primary Healthcare
** Joint Hospital Group
*** James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough
*** John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
*** Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
*** Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley
*** Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
*** Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
*** Derriford Hospital, Plymouth

### Directorate of Joint Capability

* Headquarters, Joint Capability

### Directorate of Joint Warfare

* Headquarters, Joint Warfare
** Joint Information Activities Group, at RAF Halton

### Directorate of Resources and Policy

* Headquarters, Resources and Policy

### Directorate Defence Logistics and Support

* Headquarters, Defence Logistics and Support

### Directorate of Special Forces

* Headquarters, United Kingdom Special Forces, at Main Building, Whitehall
** Special Boat Service, at RM Poole
** 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (Reserve), at Regent's Park Barracks
** 22 Special Air Service Regiment, at Stirling Lines
** 23 Special Air Service Regiment (Reserve), at Birmingham
** Special Reconnaissance Regiment, at Stirling Lines
** Special Forces Support Group, at MOD St Athan
** 18 (UKSF) Signal Regiment, at Stirling Lines
** Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing, at RAF Odiham
*** No. 7 Squadron RAF, at RAF Odiham, (Chinook HC6)
*** No. 658 Squadron, AAC, at Stirling Lines, (AS365 Dauphin)
*** Special Forces Flight, No. 47 Squadron RAF, at RAF Brize Norton

### Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

* Headquarters, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, at MoD Shrivenham
** Royal College of Defence Studies, at Seaford House
** Joint Services Command and Staff College, at Watchfield
** Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre, at Beckett House, Shrivenham
** Defence Centre of Training Support, at MoD Shrivenham
** Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme
*** Taurus Squadron, at Birmingham, (Aston, Birmingham, and Oxford Universities)
*** Thunderer Squadron, at Southampton, (Southampton and Portsmouth Universities, and Imperial College London)
*** Trojan Squadron, at Newcastle upon Tyne, (Newcastle, Northumbria, and Strathclyde Universities)
*** Typhoon Squadron, at Loughborough, (Loughborough, and Cambridge Universities)
** Defence Engagement School, at MoD Shrivenham
*** Defence Centre for Languages and Culture, at MoD Shrivenham
*** Defence Attaché and Loan Service Centre, at MoD Shrivenham
** Nuclear Department, at HMS Sultan
** Technology School, at MoD Shrivenham
** Defence Leadership and Business Group, at MoD Shrivenham
** Centre of Air Safety Training

### Permanent Joint Headquarters

* Permanent Joint Headquarters, at Northwood Headquarters
** Standing Joint Force Headquarters, at Northwood Headquarters
*** Standing Joint Force Logistics Component Headquarters, at Northwood Headquarters

## Royal Navy

* Headquarters, Navy Command, at HMS Excellent, Whale Island
** First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
*** Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff
*** Fleet Commander
*** Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy)
*** Finance Director (Navy)
*** Warrant Officer to the Royal Navy

## British Army

* Army Headquarters, at Marlborough Lines
** Chief of the General Staff
*** Deputy Chief of the General Staff
*** Commander Field Army
*** Commander Home Command
*** Commander Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
*** Army Sergeant Major

## Royal Air Force

* Royal Air Force, at RAF High Wycombe
** Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal
*** Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
*** Deputy Commander (Operations)
*** Deputy Commander (Capability)
*** Air Member for Materiel and Chief of Materiel
*** Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force