Our Commitment to Each Other
Joining the Royal Bermuda Regiment means becoming part of something greater than yourself. As a soldier, you’ll be expected to meet high standards — participating in challenging training, operations, and exercises. You’ll need to follow orders, work under pressure, and adapt to tough conditions.
Your teammates, your leaders, and your country will rely on your courage, loyalty, and commitment. They must trust you — just as you must be able to trust them.
The RBR Covenant
This mutual trust forms the foundation of the RBR Covenant — an unspoken but unbreakable bond between the Regiment and its soldiers. It represents our shared identity, loyalty, and responsibility to one another. It’s a relationship that has sustained the RBR throughout its proud history.
Our Values Standards
The Values and Standards of the RBR are essential to fulfilling our constitutional duties. They guide our actions and strengthen the trust that binds us as a team — from new recruits to seasoned leaders.
By living up to these principles, we ensure the RBR continues to serve Bermuda with honour, as it has always done.
Courage
Courage creates the strength on which fighting spirit depends. You must have the physical courage to carry on with your task regardless of potential danger and discomfort, and the moral courage always to do what you know is right.
Integrity
Soldiers must have complete trust in the integrity of each of their comrades. Integrity involves utmost honesty, reliability and unselfishness. It is an essential requirement of both leadership and comradeship. Unless you maintain your integrity, others will not trust you and teamwork will suffer. Integrity sometimes requires you to show moral courage, because your decisions may not always be popular, but it will always earn you respect.
Discipline
The Regiment must be a disciplined force if it is to be effective. You must therefore obey all lawful orders given to you. The best form of discipline, which the Regiment expects from you, is self-discipline. Only self-discipline will earn you the respect and trust of your comrades, and equip you to cope with the difficult, individual decisions you will have to make during your service. Good discipline means that soldiers obey their orders under the worst conditions and do so with imagination and resourcefulness.
Loyalty
Our Country and your Regiment rely on your commitment and support. You must therefore, be loyal to your commanders, your comrades and your duty. If you are not, you will weaken the unit and its ability to perform its roles.
Respect for Others
You will sometimes have to live and work under extremely difficult conditions. In such circumstances, it is particularly important that you show the greatest respect, tolerance and compassion for others because comradeship and leadership depend on it. Respect for others is based on self-respect and operational need, and depends on selfless commitment and integrity.
Selfless Commitment
Personal commitment is the foundation of military service. You must be prepared to serve whenever and wherever you are required, and to do your best at all times.
This means you must put the needs of the mission, and of your team, ahead of your own interests.
Courage
Courage creates the strength on which fighting spirit depends. You must have the physical courage to carry on with your task regardless of potential danger and discomfort, and the moral courage always to do what you know is right.
Discipline
The Regiment must be a disciplined force if it is to be effective. You must therefore obey all lawful orders given to you. The best form of discipline, which the Regiment expects from you, is self-discipline. Only self-discipline will earn you the respect and trust of your comrades, and equip you to cope with the difficult, individual decisions you will have to make during your service. Good discipline means that soldiers obey their orders under the worst conditions and do so with imagination and resourcefulness.
Respect for Others
You will sometimes have to live and work under extremely difficult conditions. In such circumstances, it is particularly important that you show the greatest respect, tolerance and compassion for others because comradeship and leadership depend on it. Respect for others is based on self-respect and operational need, and depends on selfless commitment and integrity.
Integrity
Soldiers must have complete trust in the integrity of each of their comrades. Integrity involves utmost honesty, reliability and unselfishness. It is an essential requirement of both leadership and comradeship. Unless you maintain your integrity, others will not trust you and teamwork will suffer. Integrity sometimes requires you to show moral courage, because your decisions may not always be popular, but it will always earn you respect.
Loyalty
Our Country and your Regiment rely on your commitment and support. You must therefore, be loyal to your commanders, your comrades and your duty. If you are not, you will weaken the unit and its ability to perform its roles.
Selfless Commitment
Personal commitment is the foundation of military service. You must be prepared to serve whenever and wherever you are required, and to do your best at all times.
This means you must put the needs of the mission, and of your team, ahead of your own interests.
