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RAF aircraft, crews and other personnel provided vital support to the recent Operation OMID HAFT (Hope Seven), an Afghan-led campaign to rid the area around Nahr-e Saraj of insurgents.
The Ministry of Defence is doubling the Council Tax Relief (CTR) for Service personnel on eligible operations overseas from 25 to 50 per cent, with effect from 1 July 2011.
The programme for implementing the reductions in the number of UK nuclear warheads, as announced in the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), has commenced, Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox announced today.
Soldiers from 7th Armoured Brigade have been helping the British and French armies to work more closely together during a major headquarters exercise held in France.
Members of the Armed Forces will be presented with a medal to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on 6 February 2012.
Members of the Armed Forces will be presented with a medal to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on 6 February 2012.
4 Military Intelligence Battalion received the honour of the Freedom of Marlborough last week and during a parade through the town some of its members were awarded their operational medals for service in Afghanistan.
4 Military Intelligence Battalion received the honour of the Freedom of Marlborough last week and during a parade through the town some of its members were awarded their operational medals for service in Afghanistan.
The RAF’s ground attack Tornados currently serving in Afghanistan and Libya have clocked up a staggering one million flying hours over the course of their service.
Newly-upgraded Warrior vehicles have saved the lives of British soldiers within weeks of arriving in Afghanistan.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have presented Afghanistan campaign medals to members of the Irish Guards.
It is estimated that some 100,000 people came out to support this year’s UK Armed Forces Day national event in Edinburgh, which witnessed some of the most spectacular military displays ever seen in the United Kingdom.
A new vision for how the MOD will run and be managed has been outlined today by Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox as the report of the Defence Reform Review is published.
Thousands have turned out to give their support to Armed Forces Day, with events taking place the length and breadth of the country.
In an update on NATO operations in Libya today, the UK’s Chief of the Defence Staff’s spokesman, Major General Nick Pope, and senior Foreign Office official Ed Herbert said ‘good progress’ is being made, and that the action has saved ‘countless lives’.
Good progress is being made towards security transition in Helmand’s provincial capital Lashkar Gah, Foreign Secretary William Hague said this week in the latest monthly report on progress in Afghanistan.
The British Prime Minister and Chief of the Defence Staff have both welcomed the announcement that the US will be withdrawing 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year.
The week-long Exercise Pegasus Reply, hosted by Woodbridge-based 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers, has seen British, German and American soldiers join forces for two parachute jumps to share experiences and working practices.
British forces working alongside Afghan soldiers have uncovered a sophisticated improvised explosive device (IED) factory hidden in a compound in Helmand.
Military chiefs from the 15 countries contributing to Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, the United Nations-mandated mission to protect civilians in Libya, met in London today to discuss the future of the campaign and its progress to date.
An exhibition of photographs provided by veterans working in the House of Commons – ‘Standing Next to You’ – was opened today by John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS), are parading through various towns this week to mark their return home following a tough but successful deployment to Afghanistan.
The RAF’s youngest female pilot, Flying Officer Emma Atkinson, is currently training Afghanistan’s first female Air Force helicopter pilots in a small office tucked away in a corner of Kabul’s airport.
Soldiers from 32 Regiment Royal Artillery were hailed as heroes for their work in Afghanistan by one of the players in England’s 1966 football World Cup-winning team, Geoff Hurst.
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Private Gareth Leslie William Bellingham, from 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Staffords), serving as part of Combined Force Nahr-e-Saraj (North), was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday 18 June 2011.
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from The Parachute Regiment was killed in Afghanistan yesterday, Thursday 16 June 2011.
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, serving with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, was killed in Afghanistan yesterday, Thursday 16 June 2011.
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death, in Afghanistan on Thursday 16th June 2011, of Craftsman Andrew Found.