Military Resettlement, Business, Training & Recruitment
Six RAF officers have travelled to the former ‘Great Escape’ prison camp – Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland – to re-enact activities which were carried out by prisoners of war (POWs) in their attempts to escape from the camp during the Second World War.
Assisted by British Chinook helicopters, Warrior armoured fighting vehicles and Challenger battle tanks, soldiers from the Indian Army’s 3rd Battalion The Bihar Regiment have successfully carried out a counter-insurgency exercise in the middle of Salisbury Plain.
British troops operating in one of the most contested areas of Helmand province are celebrating the success of the first major mission to be carried out, independently, by the Afghan soldiers they train.
Afghan forces have carried out the largest air assault operation undertaken in over a year in central Helmand to disrupt insurgent activity in the villages of Malgir and Kopak, in the Nahr-e Saraj district.