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The Royal Air Force Club in London’s Piccadilly has hosted a gathering of Royal Honorary Air Commodores to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year as patron of the Club.
Thousands of people have shown their support for Service personnel at the Armed Forces Day 2012 national event in Plymouth today.
New Cadet Units across England will be given a £10.85 million boost so that more young people can join up and take pride in their community, the Government announced today on Armed Forces Day.
A major public memorial to commemorate the tragic loss of 55,573 young Bomber Command airmen in the Second World War has been unveiled by the Queen at a ceremony in Green Park, London.
Royal Navy submarine HMS Vigilant has recently returned to her home on the Clyde in Scotland following a multi-million pound, three-year overhaul.
Reservists across the country are wearing their Service uniforms to work today, in the week before Armed Forces Day and as they receive their call-out notices to help provide security for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson proudly carried the historic flame 300 metres yesterday as crowds of onlookers cheered at the Cenotaph in Bennetthorpe, Doncaster.
Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious has been undertaking air warfare training alongside the French Navy in the Bay of Biscay.
Impressive displays by some of the world’s best military and civilian pilots drew thousands of spectators at the weekend to the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton International Air Day.
100 Army Air Corps soldiers marched through cheering crowds in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, at the weekend ‘with swords drawn, bayonets fixed, drums beating, bands playing and colours flying’.
It has been more than ten years since science and technology experts based at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) first deployed to Afghanistan in support of UK operations.
Personnel from Number 5 RAF Force Protection Wing, based at RAF Lossiemouth, have now been deployed at Camp Bastion for two months where they have responsibility for providing security at the main British base in Helmand province.
Armed Forces Day celebrations begin in style today with thousands of Armed Forces Day flags being raised across the UK.
British paratroopers have been training alongside the Royal Army of Oman over the last two weeks to hone the infantry skills of both armies’ soldiers.
A Royal Marine who survived major brain tumour surgery and a Royal Navy student nurse, who is raising money for charity in honour of troops killed in Afghanistan, have carried the Olympic Flame for part of its journey through North East England.
Afghan warriors and British soldiers recently bridged a canal while under enemy fire as part of an operation to bring security to a troubled area of Helmand province.
Three serving and ex-serving members of the UK’s Armed Forces will compete in the London 2012 Paralympic Games sitting volleyball events it was announced yesterday.
The MOD has marked the 10th anniversary of its award-winning educational programme that equips students from deprived backgrounds with valuable lifelong skills. Report by Lorraine McBride.
The British Army’s new Foxhound vehicle has been unveiled for the first time since its arrival in Afghanistan.
A Royal Marines Band and representatives from all three Services launched Armed Forces Day 2012 in Scotland today at HMS Caledonia in Rosyth.
A government-backed initiative providing ex-Service personnel with the tools they need to get into business has now helped nearly 3,000 people over two years.
The Band of the Irish Guards along with the Welsh Guards’ poster boy Garrison Sergeant Major William Mott helped to unveil giant Olympic Rings at Heathrow Airport yesterday which will greet visitors arriving in the UK.
Sailors from the Royal Navy warship HMS Sutherland have rescued a deer from Plymouth Sound.
Two military cadets were among a select group of youngsters who recently met Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the virtues of volunteering.
The MOD has secured a supplier to produce new reactor cores for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines and to upgrade the plant where they will be built.
Deployed dads across Afghanistan’s Helmand province received a welcome morale-boost yesterday when they opened Father’s Day cards from their sons and daughters back home.
The first of the British Army’s new Foxhound vehicles have arrived in Afghanistan.
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Corporal Alex Guy, of the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, was killed in action on Friday 15 June 2012.