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The second series of the Bafta-winning ‘Our War’ follows life on the front line in Afghanistan through remarkable films shot by the soldiers themselves.
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Guardsman Jamie Shadrake of the Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was killed in Afghanistan on Friday 17 August 2012.
York Minster provided the venue for a recent RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) simulated casualty evacuation exercise.
The first Afghan Police community engagement event for youngsters and their families has attracted more than 200 children in an area once considered a stronghold of the insurgency in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
The Armed Forces weren’t the only ones to work flat out at the Olympics, scores of MOD civilians also gave up their holidays to volunteer. MOD civil servant Lorraine McBride joined the press operations team at Horse Guards Parade for the beach volleyball
Professor Sir Keith Porter, Honorary Professor of Clinical Traumatology at the University of Birmingham, charts the remarkable progress of modern military care since the Cold War.
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.
The great and the good as well as stars of Team GB have thanked the British forces who helped provide security at the London 2012 Olympic venues, reports Lorraine McBride.
Portsmouth-based warship HMS Westminster returned home today from a deployment to the Middle East which included a £14m drugs bust.