The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of two other regiments: The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. The Regiment currently serves in the armoured role, equipped with the Challenger 2 main battle tank and Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (tracked) Scimitar and is based in Catterick, North Yorkshire. Today the RDG is an operationally experienced regiment; it has served in Iraq (Operations Telic 5 and 11), and in 2010 became the first complete armoured regiment to deploy to Afghanistan during Operation Herrick 12.
The Regiment recruits soldiers from the North of England and Ireland, but predominantly from Yorkshire.
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