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Thursday, 21 October 2010
As a ceremony took place this morning on HMS Victory to mark the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the most important day in the Royal Nav...
Thursday, 21 October 2010
HMS Ocean assisted the Italian-registered 'Grand Guinea' last week when one of the crew members was struck down with an acute case of suspected append...
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox, and Foreign Secretary William Hague met with their Polish counterparts today, Defence Minister Bogdan Kli...
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Check Point Kartelegan is a key base for the Afghan National Police in Helmand’s provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. It has been extended and…...
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Members of the Afghan National Army in Helmand have launched Operation OMID CHAR, described as their most significant operation yet....
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
The Reception, Staging and Onward Integration (RSOI) training is mandatory for all soldiers entering Afghanistan. It is their last chance…...
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
The government has today agreed funding for Defence of £33.8bn in 2011-12, £34.4bn in 2012-13, £34.1bn in 2013-14 and £33.5bn in 2014-15. This settlem...
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
The outcome of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), which sets out how the Government will deliver the priorities identified in the Natio...
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Personnel from 854 and 857 Naval Air Squadrons have been serving at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan since June 2009 where they have been providing…...
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Helmand villagers recently told British soldiers who stopped by to hold a shura that a school built by ISAF forces three years ago is now thriving....
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
The termination of the Defence Training Rationalisation (DTR) project and the Metrix Consortium's appointment as preferred bidder has been announced b...
Monday, 18 October 2010
Group Captain van den Berg, formerly Commanding Officer of 903 Expeditionary Air Wing, took over the role of Commander Bastion on Wednesday …...
Monday, 18 October 2010
In 2000, HMS Ocean played a pivotal role in Operation PALLISER, mounted to provide salvation for the beleaguered Freetowners when rebel forces…...
Monday, 18 October 2010
The six-wheeled Wolfhound joins Coyote and Husky as the biggest of the tactical support vehicle family. Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox said:…...
Monday, 18 October 2010
The Government has published its National Security Strategy, 'A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty', today, which outlines our reappraisal of Bri...
Monday, 18 October 2010
RAF Lyneham's Corporal Gareth Scutt and his patrol dog, air dog Argin, were last week crowned the winners of the Royal Air Force Police UK Military Wo...
Friday, 15 October 2010
An ex-Para who was involved in the capture of Goose Green during the Falklands conflict has rejoined the military as a RAF paramedic and has just retu...
Friday, 15 October 2010
Prime Minister David Cameron met International Security Assistance Force Commander General David Petraeus at 10 Downing Street in London yesterday, Th...
Friday, 15 October 2010
Royal Marines descended on the Tower of London this week to launch a major fundraising campaign for serving and retired Royal Marines and their famili...
Friday, 15 October 2010
Medics in Camp Bastion, along with a few colleagues, have recently completed a gruelling 24-hour stretcher-carry around the base in Afghanistan to rai...
Friday, 15 October 2010
The Royal Navy warship HMS Manchester stalked a trio of drug traffickers through the Caribbean night and literally caught them napping!...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Speech by Lord Astor of Hever DL, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State....
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Lindy Cameron, who has recently returned from Afghanistan where she headed up the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team, spoke yesterday about recent...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
The UK is boosting the number of personnel dedicated to developing the Afghan National Security Forces by more than 320, Secretary of State for Defenc...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Volunteer medics from 207 Field Hospital have been conducting their final pre-deployment assessment before they take over the British military hospita...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Prime Minister David Cameron announced the appointment of Colonel Jim Morris of the Royal Marines as his new military assistant yesterday, Wednesday 1...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
The Royal Navy warship HMS Montrose prevented a gang of suspected pirates from entering the Indian Ocean to attack merchant ships yesterday, Wednesday...
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
At the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' 11 Training Battalion, young engineers are trained to ensure that the equipment troops are ...
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
The finest photographers in the Royal Air Force gathered in London yesterday to find out who had won the top awards in this year's photographic compet...
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Major Mark Suddaby was one of around 400 soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS) who have been in Afghanistan for…...