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RAF Tornados and Typhoons have been in action once again this weekend over Libya, with support from HMS Liverpool, as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
A group of highly specialised soldiers – Royal Engineer divers – have been honing their skills on a six-week advanced diver course at the National Diving and Activity Centre in Chepstow.
HMS St Albans has played a key role in a major exercise in the Gulf testing the abilities of naval forces to defend the region’s scores of gas and oil platforms which are vital to the UK and global economy.
RAF jets successfully bombed a Libyan frigate in Tripoli harbour this week, along with various other key targets of forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.
RAF jets successfully bombed a Libyan frigate in Tripoli harbour this week, along with various other key targets of forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.
One of only two Royal Naval cultural advisors, reservist Lieutenant Commander Shah Esfahani’s deployment on the Cougar 11 tasking marked the first time either has been deployed in this role at sea.
One of only two Royal Naval cultural advisors, reservist Lieutenant Commander Shah Esfahani’s deployment on the Cougar 11 tasking marked the first time either has been deployed in this role at sea.
The Royal Air Force’s E-3D Sentry AEW (Airborne Early Warning) aircraft is a key part of the UK contribution to NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, the mission to protect Libyan civilians from Colonel Gaddafi’s former regime.
Amongst the personnel deployed with the Royal Navy’s Responsive Force Task Group Cougar 11 deployment, whose lead ships arrived home yesterday, were a small group of individuals from the Royal Naval Reserve.
A church for Service personnel in Afghanistan has been fitted with some colourful new windows, thanks to a group of schoolchildren from Plymouth.
The men and women of 1 Medical Regiment have completed an arduous series of exercises in Germany designed to prepare them to treat injured soldiers during their upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.
The UK’s most senior Territorial Officer visited Territorial Army units in the North East of England last week to discuss the implications for the Reserve Forces following the Future Reserves 2020 Study recently published by the Government.
Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has passed a landmark in delivering key new buildings to support Royal Navy helicopter squadrons based at Royal Navy Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in Cornwall.
Royal Engineers from 59 Commando Squadron have completed construction of an Afghan Local Police (ALP) station in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province.
A team of Armed Forces personnel recovering at Headley Court from serious injuries, competed in the Ironman UK Triathlon event in Bolton, yesterday, Sunday 31 July 2011. Report by Lorraine McBride.
The people of Dewsbury came out en-masse on Saturday to celebrate 3rd Battalion The Rifles (3 RIFLES) receiving the Freedom of the town from Kirklees Metropolitan Council.
Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has announced that it will develop a national prime contract worth up to £950 million to manage its 240,000-hectare UK training estate. DIO will be inviting expressions of interest from potential bidders for the new contract.
Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has announced that it will develop a national prime contract worth up to £950 million to manage its 240,000-hectare UK training estate. DIO will be inviting expressions of interest from potential bidders for the new contract.
286 students have recently graduated from the Advanced Command and Staff Course held over the last 46 weeks at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham, near Swindon, Wiltshire.
The final phase of the MOD’s pelvic protection system will be issued to troops on the front line in Afghanistan in the next few months along with a new Personal Clothing System.
A new memorial to the fallen gunners of the Royal Artillery was dedicated at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, last week.
A Gurkha soldier who received a Mention in Dispatches (MID) for bravely holding off an insurgent ambush on an Afghan National Police (ANP) patrol two years ago is back in Helmand once again.
Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset has hosted a families day at sea ahead of the ship’s forthcoming deployment on operations off the Horn of Africa.
Royal Navy Type 23 Duke class frigate HMS Sutherland has been re-tasked to NATO to support Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, the mission to protect the people of Libya and enforce the UN-mandated arms embargo.
Two members of the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force (C-IED TF) have spent two full days making safe an IED factory found by British soldiers in the Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand province.
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.