{{Infobox Military Unit

|unit_name=383 Commando Petroleum Troop

|image=[[File:Rlcbadge.jpg|250px|]]

|caption=Cap Badge of the Royal Logistic Corps

|country=[[United Kingdom]]

|branch=[[British Army]]

|command_structure=

|type=[[Commando]]

|role=Combat Service Support

|size=One Regiment

|current_commander=

|garrison=[[Plymouth TA centre]]

|battles=[[Falklands War]]<br />[[Operation Telic]]<br />[[Operation Herrick]] 5<br />[[Operation Herrick]] 9<br />[[Operation Herrick]] 14}}

'''383 Commando Petroleum Troop''' of the [[Royal Logistic Corps]] is an Army Reserve unit responsible for the handling, supply and storage of bulk fuels from ship-to-shore and under front-line combat conditions. It is a Commando unit and all soldiers must pass the [[All Arms Commando Course]] in order to serve with the Regulars in the [[Commando Logistic Regiment]] in [[3 Commando Brigade]], [[Royal Marines]].

383 Petroleum Troop is part of [[Commando Logistic Regiment]] base at [[RMB Chivenor]] in North Devon. The TA unit which has its specialist role are currently based at the [[Plymouth TA centre]] on the coast of Devon.

Until the middle of the 1990s the TA unit had another barracks at the [[Blighmont TA Centre]] in Southampton, Hampshire.

It future under the [[Army 2020]] plan is unknown.<ref> Not in this ORBAT http://www.serfca.org/Portals/0/Images/f/SUMMARY%20OF%20A2020%20RESERVE%20STRUCTURE%20AND%20BASING%20CHANGES.pdf</ref>

== External links ==

*[http://www.army.mod.uk/logistic/regiments/30793.aspx Main Webpage]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

* TA Wessex [http://www.tawessex.org.uk/]

* TA Plymouth [http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/southwest/rolesandregiments/ta/pages/383CommandoPetroleumTroopRLC(V).aspx]

* TA Southampton [http://www.tanearyou.org.uk/unitdetails.php?id=38]

{{British Commando Forces}}

[[Category:British Commandos]]

[[Category:Regiments of the Royal Logistic Corps]]

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