As of 1 January 2013, the army had 94,610 trained regulars, 8,670 regulars under training and 19,040 trained territorial army (TA) soldiers, with just under 6,000 TA personnel under training, reported Richley. It has hundreds of thousands of pensioners, 50 different nationalities – foreign and commonwealth as well as Irish – 17 ranks, from private to general, and 250 trades. Naming conventions, even within the same rank, are complex and it is spread across the world, often in areas inaccessible to the internet or mobile phones. Personnel costs account for 27% of the national defence budget overall, but 74% of the Army’s. The army is bigger than the navy and air force put together, he commented.