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One of the Royal Navy’s newest ships, the Type 45 destroyer Dragon, has sailed into her new home of Portsmouth Naval Base today.
A team of musicians from the Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth are in Afghanistan, where they have been touring the British area of operations and entertaining the troops of 3 Commando Brigade.
Soldiers from B Company, 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (3 MERCIAN), have finished their six-month deployment to Afghanistan, becoming the first members of Task Force Helmand to return home from Operation HERRICK 14.
The Commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (COMISAF), General John Allen, visited British troops working in Task Force Helmand last week.
RAF officer Rachael Cadman has run, swam and cycled into history as the first woman to complete ‘the most gruelling and most challenging endurance event known to man’.
Money and information are two things that matter a lot to the military commanders in charge Operation HERRICK, and it’s the job of MOD civil servants deployed to Helmand to provide that information and keep a close eye on the purse strings. Report by Ian Carr.
RAF Tornado GR4s struck a military facility located on the southern outskirts of Tripoli yesterday morning, as UK Armed Forces continue to contribute to NATO’s patrols over Libya to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973.
Servicemen and women from 2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron have returned to RAF Marham from supporting UK missions over Libya, having handed over the command of the Tornado Force Element to 9 (Bomber) Squadron.
Engineers from 33 (Engineering) Squadron have been recognised for the work they do supporting the RAF’s C-130J Hercules fleet at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
75 members of the Royal Navy are currently providing nearly 80 per cent of the front line medical cover in Helmand province in support of 3 Commando Brigade’s six-month deployment on Operation HERRICK 14.
Hundreds of young soldiers took part in a massive military graduation parade last week as they marked the end of their year’s training at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate.
Assisted by British Chinook helicopters, Warrior armoured fighting vehicles and Challenger battle tanks, soldiers from the Indian Army’s 3rd Battalion The Bihar Regiment have successfully carried out a counter-insurgency exercise in the middle of Salisbury Plain.