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Thames exercise prepares Marines for Olympic security role

Thames exercise prepares Marines for Olympic security role

Friday, 20 January 2012

This week's Olympic security training exercise on the River Thames in London, which has involved nearly 100 Royal Marines joining up with police and h...

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Sappers triumph in annual skiing competition

Sappers triumph in annual skiing competition

Friday, 20 January 2012

The North-Germany-based unit was declared the overall champion while the men’s 1 Logistic Support Regiment (1 LSR) team won the military patrol…...

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Army cyclist competes for Olympic qualification

Army cyclist competes for Olympic qualification

Friday, 20 January 2012

With Great Britain’s cyclists dominating the field at the 2008 Olympics they can rightly expect the very best in terms of funding and coaching…...

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Royal Navy returns pirated dhow to owner

Royal Navy returns pirated dhow to owner

Friday, 20 January 2012

Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel embarked on Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessel Fort Victoria have successfully rescued a dhow from the clutches...

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Troops take to the West End stage

Troops take to the West End stage

Friday, 20 January 2012

A remarkable group of wounded, sick and injured Service personnel will star on the West End stage this weekend....

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A soldier's life in Helmand's Green Zone

A soldier's life in Helmand's Green Zone

Thursday, 19 January 2012

In his latest blog, Private Graham 'T' Thurston, a British soldier from 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (1 PWRR), currently deplo...

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Surgeon General discusses importance of partnerships

Surgeon General discusses importance of partnerships

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Surgeon Vice Admiral Raffaelli started his speech saying that the exceptional care we are delivering to our soldiers, sailors and airmen is …...

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Junior Soldiers complete Phase 1 training

Junior Soldiers complete Phase 1 training

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Over 300 Junior Soldiers, aged seventeen and eighteen, marched onto the parade square at the Army Foundation College Harrogate in front of thousands o...

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New Non Executive appointed

New Non Executive appointed

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Mr Graham Williams, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) partner, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Member of the Defence Board and Chair of the ...

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Naval charities receive a massive lift from Pembroke

Naval charities receive a massive lift from Pembroke

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Sailors on minehunter HMS Pembroke stripped off for charity - but not to produce a calendar....

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Field Training Unit prepares Gurkhas for Helmand

Field Training Unit prepares Gurkhas for Helmand

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR) were among the latest to benefit from the experience of the Field Training Unit at Salisbu...

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New Navy recruits arrive at HMS Raleigh

New Navy recruits arrive at HMS Raleigh

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

64 budding sailors are the first recruits to arrive at HMS Raleigh this year to start their ten-week initial naval training course....

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Army works with community to tackle vandalism

Army works with community to tackle vandalism

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Training facilities for troops and the quality of life for residents have improved thanks to the work of the Middlewick Stakeholders Group, …...

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NATO's senior civilian in Afghanistan discusses challenges ahead

NATO's senior civilian in Afghanistan discusses challenges ahead

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, Ambassador Sir Simon Gass, gave a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute yesterday on th...

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UK military expedition marks centenary of Scott reaching South Pole

UK military expedition marks centenary of Scott reaching South Pole

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Members of the British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the day Royal Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott's i...

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Medics prepare for Helmand

Medics prepare for Helmand

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

The exercise at Towthorpe Lines, Strensall, was designed to pull together over a year’s worth of build-up planning for a three-month operational…...

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British Army radio promotes internet use

British Army radio promotes internet use

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

The British Army's radio service has embarked on a major promotion of listening to radio via the internet for 2012....

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Defence Minister discusses space security

Defence Minister discusses space security

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Peter Luff visited RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire yesterday with Minister for Universities ...

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Second tranche of Armed Forces redundancies announced

Second tranche of Armed Forces redundancies announced

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

The Armed Forces are today announcing the fields from which they will select those to be made redundant in Tranche 2 of the Armed Forces Redundancy Pr...

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RFA Wave Knight rescues sailors in distress

RFA Wave Knight rescues sailors in distress

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Wave Knight responded to a mayday distress call this weekend from a 70-foot (21m) pleasure craft sailing in the northern ...

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Afghanistan operational air update 7 January 2012

Afghanistan operational air update 7 January 2012

Monday, 16 January 2012

RAF, Royal Navy and Army Air Corps personnel conducted numerous missions across southern Afghanistan from 1 to 7 January 2012. Here follows an operati...

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IN PICTURES: Falklands veteran meets Argentine pilot he shot down 30 years ago

IN PICTURES: Falklands veteran meets Argentine pilot he shot down 30 years ago

Monday, 16 January 2012

A Royal Navy veteran from the Falklands War has completed an extraordinary journey to meet the Argentine pilot he thought he had shot down and killed ...

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Royal Marines practise Olympic security on Thames

Royal Marines practise Olympic security on Thames

Monday, 16 January 2012

The Green Berets have joined the Metropolitan Police’s Marine Policing Unit for a series of training exercises on the capital’s great artery…...

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Historic RAF squadron disbands

Historic RAF squadron disbands

Monday, 16 January 2012

The squadron - which formerly trained fast jet pilots - has been disbanded following the Strategic Defence and Security Review which has resulted…...

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Navy captures 13 Somali pirates

Navy captures 13 Somali pirates

Monday, 16 January 2012

Thirteen Somali pirates were captured on a dhow in the Indian Ocean on Friday by a combination of Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary ...

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Army's top woman gives first interview

Army's top woman gives first interview

Friday, 13 January 2012

Brigadier Moffat is the highest ranked woman in the British Army. She has excelled in all kinds of things during a near 30-year career that …...

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Navy and RAF among top 100 employers of gay people

Navy and RAF among top 100 employers of gay people

Friday, 13 January 2012

The Royal Navy and RAF have both been ranked amongst the top 100 employers in Britain of lesbian, gay and bisexual people for 2012....

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Life in an Army band

Life in an Army band

Friday, 13 January 2012

The RMSM at Kneller Hall owes its creation to an unintentional yet highly embarrassing public affront to Queen Victoria. To round off a Grand…...

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Afghan children enjoy Open Day at Kandahar Airfield

Afghan children enjoy Open Day at Kandahar Airfield

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Hundreds of Afghan schoolchildren met RAF personnel at an Open Day held by the Afghan Air Force at Kandahar Airfield....

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RAF engineer wins the Churchill Medal

RAF engineer wins the Churchill Medal

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Last year the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), working in partnership with the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and …...

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