First off, thanks all for the massive amount of info its greatly appreciated. With regards to STTT's these are one of the things that has drawn me to the RIR ( I understand most army reg's do them).
I think the recruiter is buttering them up. I know a good handful of people move to 2 rifles from rir. But I'd say personally pretty much 99% of line infantry will do the same sort of deployment/overseas exercisss. Mostly depending on if your light/mechanised/armoured. And I dont really think any are better than the other it's just regimental history/pride.
Army has a bad tendency to lie in recruitment. I was told I could do things I dont have a snowballs in hell chance of doing. But fool me
Yeah thats one of the things I'm worried about the buttering up, I am being told that there are huge deployment opportunities within RIR and to be fair they have for sure been about recently, so hopefully its not too buttered up.
From what I've heard the RIR get up to a lot regarding overseas exercises and deployments.
When it comes to operational tours, the Line Infantry seem to get the bulk of them compared to the Paras and the RM - SHADER, TORAL, CORDED, etc (obviously disregarding maritime ops and the ones not in public domain.)
2 and 3 PARA have only been to Afghanistan on TORAL in the past couple of years whereas units like the Rifles and Household Division have been all over the place
As others have mentioned though you're better off doing some solid research first, and with the Future Commando Force things are looking pretty interesting!
Also quick edit, if you're not from that area I wouldn't bother joining the RIR, 'outsiders' tend to get shunned from what I've been told by a guy serving in that regiment.
Thats another thing that draws me towards them, the massive number of deployments they seen to be getting. With regards to the outsider bit, I'll have an ask around and see if thats the case although even if it is I can always work some of that southern charm
The specialisations I'm really interested in are mortars and signals so I need to ask the recruiter about how I would go about getting there (I understand thats a long time away though) in the RIR and to check there's no 'pinging' equivalent in the army.
Thanks all for the help so far, hugely appreciated.