company to maintain the traditions of the 3rd Battalion, which was placed in suspended animation, while serving as the left flank company of the 2nd Battalion. Following the Integrated Review, the foot guards battalion assigned to 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade, which is reduced in size for the duration of its time assigned to the specialised infantry role transfers its remaining strength to the public duties role through the creation of two additional incremental companies. The first battalion to be subject to this process is the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, between 2023 and 2027. The two companies of Irish Guards, Number 9 Company and Number 12 Company, will also take on the history and traditions of the regiment's 2nd Battalion, which was placed in suspended animation in 1947. The two new public duties companies will join the three existing units in forming five Public Duties Teams within London District. Line Infantry As part of the Army 2020 reforms outlined by the Strategic Defence and Security Review, an additional public duties incremental company was formed in 2013 through the reduction of the 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (formerly the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) to company strength to serve as a public duties unit in Scotland. This unit, Balaklava Company (named for the battle honour won by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1854), is based at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh. This was the second time that this battalion had been reduced to a company, following its predecessor's reduction from 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to Balaklava Company between January 1971 and January 1972. Brigade of Gurkhas Gurkha reinforcement companies In the 1990s, it became apparent that some regular infantry battalions were suffering manpower issues, while at the same time the Brigade of Gurkhas was over-manned. Therefore, a decision was taken to use the excess manpower from the Gurkhas to augment under strength infantry battalions through the establishment of reinforcement companies that would wear the cap badge of the Royal Gurkha Rifles, but be attached to other regiments. A total of five infantry battalions received Gurkha companies between 1994 and 2004: 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment - C Company (1994-2001) 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) - B Company (1996-2001)1 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) - Gurkha Company (1996-1999) 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and Ulster Defence