Month: August 2012

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Search and Rescue Flight marks 9,000th rescue

By Sharon Black

Whilst Team GB were setting records at the London Olympics, the RAF Search and Rescue team of ‘C’ Flight, 22 Squadron, based at RAF Valley, reached their own milestone on ‘Olympic Super Saturday’ by completing the Flight’s 9,000th rescue.

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Lieutenant Andrew Chesterman killed in Afghanistan

By Sharon Black

It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce the death of Lieutenant Andrew Robert Chesterman of the 3rd Battalion The Rifles, who died as a result of wounds sustained by enemy action in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand Province on 9 August 2012.