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Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach has taken up post as the first Commander of Joint Forces Command (JFC) today and will be responsible for commanding and generating allocated joint capabilities.

The Royal Navy’s next-generation helicopter, the Wildcat, has landed on a ship at sea for the first time.

The principles of the Armed Forces Covenant have been enshrined in law for the first time after the Armed Forces Bill received Royal Assent today.

The townsfolk of Wootton Bassett will be the first to benefit from £10,000 of funding from the new Community Covenant Grant Scheme.

Leading Aircrewman Sarah Christenson from 820 Naval Air Squadron, a Merlin helicopter squadron based at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, has become the first ever female to successfully complete the helicopter fast-roping instructors course.

Cobham Aviation Services has received the first of 12 Airbus Military A330-200 aircraft at its Bournemouth facility for conversion into ‘Voyager’, the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force.

Army and RAF personnel will today be notified if they have been selected for redundancy in the first tranche of the Armed Forces Redundancy Programme.

Army and RAF personnel will today be notified if they have been selected for redundancy in the first tranche of the Armed Forces Redundancy Programme.

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’.

Highlander Mark Purves was amongst the first soldiers to secure an area in Helmand recently where one of the biggest finds of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) this summer was made by British forces.