Their Brigade Flash will no longer be the Desert Rat, it will be replaced with a Black Panther Head.

The battalion has a number of generalised departments which are based at each company location, these are: But also has a number of specialist/support platoons, these are: Since its establishment in 2006 the battalion has deployed to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cyprus, Iraq, Kosovo and Northern Ireland.

[citation needed] The first deployment as a battalion was in 2011 as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.

It deployed to Spain in 2022 to conduct Exercise Iberian Star alongside the Spanish Army.

[citation needed] The 3rd battalion's nickname of "The Steelbacks" is taken from one of its former regiments, the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot who earned the nickname for their stoicism when being flogged with the cat-o'-nine tails ("Not a whimper under the lash"), a routine method of administering punishment in the Army in the 18th and early 19th centuries.