The initial RR battalions deployed in the terrorist-infested areas of Tarn Taran in Punjab and Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir proved to be extremely effective. In Punjab, the deployment of the army and RR units contributed significantly to the turnaround in the situation. Since then the RR has been increasingly fighting the low-intensity war on behalf of the army in Kashmir. Casualty figures indicate that from 3 out of 44 army casualties in 1991 being from the RR, the figure had gone up to 82 out of 150 in 1996. Up to February 1997, 17 RR officers (including 1 Colonel, 4 Lt. Colonels and 7 Majors), 13 JCOs and 169 other ranks had been killed in action. The officer to other ranks casualty ratio for the RR (at 1:9.94 till February 1997) was almost double the average for the army in the Kargil War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (at 1:20).