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286 students have recently graduated from the Advanced Command and Staff Course held over the last 46 weeks at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham, near Swindon, Wiltshire.
After winning a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, Lieutenant Tom Lucy has finally achieved his childhood dream of becoming a Royal Marine.
The final phase of the MOD’s pelvic protection system will be issued to troops on the front line in Afghanistan in the next few months along with a new Personal Clothing System.
A new memorial to the fallen gunners of the Royal Artillery was dedicated at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, last week.
Having arrived off the coast of Libya this weekend, HMS Sutherland has already conducted a boarding operation under the auspices of UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
A Gurkha soldier who received a Mention in Dispatches (MID) for bravely holding off an insurgent ambush on an Afghan National Police (ANP) patrol two years ago is back in Helmand once again.
Units from 12 Mechanized Brigade have been training at BATUS (British Army Training Unit Suffield), on the prairies of Canada, in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan in early 2012.
Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset has hosted a families day at sea ahead of the ship’s forthcoming deployment on operations off the Horn of Africa.
Royal Navy Type 23 Duke class frigate HMS Sutherland has been re-tasked to NATO to support Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, the mission to protect the people of Libya and enforce the UN-mandated arms embargo.
Working with the Royal Marines during a recent operation to clear a key route in Helmand of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) was an RAF woman who is part of the Military Stabilisation Support Team (MSST).
Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey recently visited the RAF personnel who fly the Reaper Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) over Afghanistan from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, USA.
Officer cadets from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) finished a ten-day training exercise in Dumfries and Galloway on Saturday, 23 July 2011; the culmination of a 44-week training course.
Two members of the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force (C-IED TF) have spent two full days making safe an IED factory found by British soldiers in the Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand province.
A team of military medical personnel are completing a 3,580 miles (5,761km) run and cycle – the equivalent distance from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK, to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan – raising money for charity.
RAF Chinook helicopter crews recently travelled to the United States to train for Afghanistan in the heat and high-altitude terrain of southern California.