Military Resettlement, Business, Training & Recruitment
Musicians and buglers from the Royal Marines Band Service took a break from driving ambulances in Afghanistan to entertain their fellow British troops with a traditional ‘last night of the proms’ style concert.
A church for Service personnel in Afghanistan has been fitted with some colourful new windows, thanks to a group of schoolchildren from Plymouth.
A soldier whose time in the Army is running out has used the Service’s resettlement package to uniquely retrain as a watchmaker and has invented what he believes to be a world’s first in timekeeping circles.
Last week, twenty-two female Service personnel received training from the UK’s Military Stabilisation Support Group (MSSG) and the Stabilisation Unit in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan as part of Female Engagement Teams (FETs).
Highlighting the Service’s multiple roles, a Royal Navy patrol ship has caught and fined a fisherman who misrecorded his catch of hake in an area policed by the Royal Navy to stop incidents of overfishing.
Soldiers from Alpha Troop, 244 Signal Squadron, 21 Signal Regiment (Air Support) received their Afghanistan Operational Service Medals earlier this week, after returning from a successful six-month deployment in support of the Joint Helicopter Force (Afghanistan).
Hundreds of Service personnel are currently engaged in a training exercise on Salisbury Plain in preparation for the next tour of duty in Afghanistan.
For the second year running, the Ideal Home Show is showing its support for the UK’s Armed Forces by giving free entry to this year’s show to all Service personnel.
Prime Minister David Cameron praised the work of Service personnel who provide the ‘airbridge’ between Britain and Afghanistan today as he took to the flight deck of the RAF’s newest transport plane.