Military Resettlement, Business, Training & Recruitment
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death, in Afghanistan on Thursday 16 June 2011, of Corporal Lloyd Newell of The Parachute Regiment.
Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has visited British forces in Helmand province as they prepare to begin the process of handing over substantive security responsibilities to their Afghan counterparts in Lashkar Gah.
HMS York is on the last leg of her five-month deployment to the southern oceans after passing through the world’s greatest man-made waterway.
Royal Navy Clearance Divers have a refurbished training centre thanks to Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) completing its revamp of an historic accommodation facility on Scotland’s west Coast.
Soldiers from 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (7 PARA RHA) are swapping the dusty heat of landlocked Afghanistan for the cold waters of the Atlantic.
Royal Navy personnel have joined 2,000 sailors from 13 nations for the world’s largest submarine rescue exercise, off the south-eastern tip of Spain.
Staff from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) have joined forces with military colleagues and industry partners to unearth and record centuries-old ancient trees on Defence sites across the country.
The Ministry of Defence’s Major Projects Review Board, designed to scrutinise and hold to account some of the Department’s most expensive projects, has met for the first time today, 13 June 2011.
On Saturday 11 June 2011 soldiers of the Household Division had the honour of performing the famous Trooping the Colour ceremony to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s official birthday, while 25 RAF aircraft performed a flypast over Buckingham Palace.