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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
This year, the Gibraltar Cadets spent their first week at RAF Shawbury in the north of Shropshire. Training at RAF Shawbury is conducted by …...
Monday, 27 September 2010
Flt Lt Fortune was nominated for the award after showing courage under fire and great skill in handling a badly damaged Chinook helicopter during…...
Monday, 27 September 2010
The ‘Lions of England’, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (2 LANCS), deployed to Afghanistan on 8 July 2010 from their base in …...
Monday, 27 September 2010
The Secretary of State for Defence is the first Cabinet Minister of the new Coalition Government to visit the Kingdom and his programme included…...
Friday, 24 September 2010
To prepare for operations in Afghanistan the Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) have been conducting battlefield casualty drills using state-of-the-art s...
Friday, 24 September 2010
The crew of HMS Manchester has played a vital role in assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Igor after it passed over the British overseas territor...
Friday, 24 September 2010
131 Service personnel have been recognised for gallantry in the latest Operational Honours and Awards List....
Friday, 24 September 2010
A total of 130 members of the Armed Forces have received honours and awards in the Operational Honours List dated today, 24 September 2010....
Friday, 24 September 2010
For the first time in the history of Inter Services Rugby League, one Service has claimed a Grand Slam, with the Army emerging unbeaten against the RA...
Thursday, 23 September 2010
A new school which will educate hundreds of Afghan youngsters has been opened in Spina Kota, a village in the Bolan desert five kilometres from Lashka...
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Diamond’s captain and crew sailed past the Round Tower and into their home port for the first time yesterday morning, Wednesday 22 September…...
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Here’s a pub quiz question for you. What was the first example of aerial reconnaissance? Was it in the First World War perhaps? It’s true …...
Thursday, 23 September 2010
The ISAF mission in Afghanistan is, by its very nature, a multinational, multi-Service one. However, there are few units that embody this internationa...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Ministry of Defence personnel have been shortlisted for this year's Civil Service Awards, which recognise the very best practice across the Civil Serv...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The US-UK defence treaty has taken a key step towards ratification, following its approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee....
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The Gunners, from 51 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment with additional personnel from 2622 (Highland) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment…...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
British and American Marines have built on a relationship that goes back many decades to ensure that the handover of control of Sangin goes smoothly a...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Plans to provide troops in Afghanistan with a new generation of Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) have passed an important milestone with Force Pr...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The tradition began when a parachute training school was formed at RAF Ringway on 21 June 1940 as the Central Landing School which from 1 October…...
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Speech by Andrew Robathan, Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans....
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
The Royal Navy amphibious landing ship HMS Bulwark has been floated out of dry dock after 127 days as part of a £30m refit at Devonport Royal Dockyard...
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Before the responsibility for security in Sangin transferred from the UK to the US, Marines from the two nations joined together for some sporting rel...
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
The people of Gloucestershire have formally welcomed HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) at a glittering service in Gloucester Cathedral....
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
The little-known Gibraltar Squadron - the Royal Navy's smallest, permanent, overseas seagoing unit - is celebrating its 25th anniversary....
Monday, 20 September 2010
A brand new accommodation block has been completed at the Duke of York's Royal Military School, in Dover which it's hoped will improve life for the te...
Monday, 20 September 2010
British Lynx crews from the Joint Helicopter Force (Afghanistan), in partnership with their US colleagues and Afghan pilots from the Afghan Air Force ...
Monday, 20 September 2010
ISAF has today announced that British forces in southern Afghanistan have handed responsibility for security in Sangin to US forces...
Monday, 20 September 2010
An extra Reaper remotely-piloted aircraft has arrived in Afghanistan, increasing support to troops....
Monday, 20 September 2010
Senior royal figures, politicians and civic dignitaries joined Battle of Britain veterans and hundreds of worshippers at Westminster Abbey on Sunday 1...
Sunday, 19 September 2010
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from The Queen's Royal Lancers and a soldier from the Royal Engineers, se...