Military Resettlement, Business, Training & Recruitment
Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey recently visited the RAF personnel who fly the Reaper Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) over Afghanistan from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, USA.
A team of military medical personnel are completing a 3,580 miles (5,761km) run and cycle – the equivalent distance from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK, to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan – raising money for charity.
RAF Chinook helicopter crews recently travelled to the United States to train for Afghanistan in the heat and high-altitude terrain of southern California.
A huge virtual reality training facility in Sennelager, Germany, which uses the latest 3D gaming technology, is helping British forces, from individuals to entire battle groups, prepare for operations in southern Afghanistan. Report by Sharon Kean.
Two Royal Marines from 45 Commando, who were badly injured in Afghanistan, are back on duty in Helmand, thanks to the excellent medical treatment they received both in theatre and back in the UK.
The UK’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has paid tribute to the skills and sacrifices of British troops serving in Afghanistan during a visit to the country this week.
Soldiers from the 9th/12th Royal Lancers and their Afghan colleagues have, since March, been helping to keep one of the busiest and most important roads in Afghanistan open.
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.