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Military medic Tanya Wilson has swapped the wards of the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth for the front line in Afghanistan where, for the past five months, she has been accompanying Royal Marines on patrol.
A Royal Navy Search and Rescue team helped rescue a father and son who had fallen down cliffs in Scotland this week, while an RAF crew rescued a teenage girl stuck in mud near Middlesbrough.
Since the start of Operation HERRICK 14 in April this year, the Military Stabilisation Support Group (MSSG) in Helmand province has helped with a number of projects that have directly benefited people’s lives.
The Community Covenant Grant scheme has been launched by the MOD today which invites communities to apply for funding to run projects which strengthen the bonds between the Armed Forces and the public.
Soldiers from 9 Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, are currently preparing for future deployments to Afghanistan in the heat of Cyprus on Exercise Lion Sun.
While on anti-piracy patrol in the Red Sea, Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth recently diverted her course and sped to the aid of a merchant ship that had come under pirate attack.
Royal Marines recently played Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in the inaugural match of the newly-formed football league of Rahim Kalay, a small farming community previously ravaged by fighting and terrorised by insurgents.
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce the death of a soldier from 1st Battalion The Rifles on Friday 12 August 2011.
Troops from the Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) have taken over part of Salisbury Plain to take part in Exercise Pashtun Jaguar prior to deployment to Afghanistan next year. Report by Leigh Hamilton.
Seventy years to the day that an RAF pilot took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse to attack a German battleship, his ashes were scattered on the very spot his Halifax bomber left from in 1941.
Sappers from 39 Armoured Engineer Squadron, part of the Task Force Helmand Engineer Group, have built a new command post, named Kahmanan, in the village of Nahr Khil, Helmand province.
With government structures in place the UK-led Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) is concentrating on training and mentoring members of the district councils and line management, its head said yesterday.
Sapper Vasilis ‘Taz’ Tzanetis is the lead searcher in an elite team of Royal Engineers on 24-hour call to seek out improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Helmand province.
A dawn patrol mission over Libya as part of NATO’s commitment to protect the civilian population recently saw an RAF Typhoon pilot rack up his 1,000th flying hour on the aircraft.
Lucrative criminal industries on the coast of Sierra Leone are being smashed by the country’s burgeoning army, thanks to support from British personnel. Report by Joe Clapson.
The Commander of Task Force Helmand (TFH) said today that ISAF forces are maintaining momentum and have very much suppressed the fighting season this year in Helmand province as local people talk of the future.
The return home of three of the Royal Navy ships this weekend that were part of the Responsive Force Task Group tasking in the Mediterranean and Middle East marks the end of the Cougar 11 deployment.
An RAF airman’s blog about his current deployment in Afghanistan has notched up 80,000 hits, and had an article written about it on the BBC news website.
The RAF and Royal Navy have been conducting strikes against key targets of Colonel Gaddafi’s former regime, particularly in Zlitan, this weekend.
Busier with Marines’ stubbed toes than bullet wounds on her latest Helmand tour, medic Major Jennie Johnston is now giving health advice to local Afghans. Report by Ian Carr.
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Marine James Robert Wright, from Juliet Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, serving as part of Combined Force Nad ‘Ali (North), was killed in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan on Friday 5 August 2011.
Soldiers from 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (7 Para RHA) have recently sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, raising £5,000 for charity, just months after returning from Afghanistan.
The Royal Navy Fleet Diving Squadron has helped the Royal Mint create a floating commemoration to mark the 500th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Mary Rose.
Fusiliers who deployed to Helmand as battle casualty replacements with 16 Air Assault Brigade received their Afghanistan operational medals during a parade at their Tidworth barracks yesterday, 4 August 2011.
Various MOD personnel from soldiers to the Ministry of Defence Police are helping move the Afghan Police from soldiering over to community policing. Report by Ian Carr.
A state-of-the-art new shot detection system called Boomerang III has been introduced in patrol bases and checkpoints on the front line of Helmand province to alert troops immediately to the source of incoming fire.
A state-of-the-art new shot detection system called Boomerang III has been introduced in patrol bases and checkpoints on the front line of Helmand province to alert troops immediately to the source of incoming fire.
Surveillance sorties in RAF Sentinel R1 aircraft from Cyprus are supporting the UN mission in Libya.