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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Whilst Team GB were setting records at the London Olympics, the RAF Search and Rescue team of 'C' Flight, 22 Squadron, based at RAF Valley, reached th...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Sailors whose courage kept supply routes open to the strategically vital island of Malta during the Second World War have been honoured with a lasting...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Larkhill Post Office has become the UK's first to have its postbox painted gold in celebration of Captain Heather Stanning's Olympic gold medal win in...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Clyde-based minehunter HMS Blyth recently led NATO operations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea after leaving her home port of Faslane at the end of ...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
A £25m new complex for Royal Marines landing craft and assault boats in Devonport is well on the way to completion....
Monday, 13 August 2012
Footballer David Beckham became the latest in a string of high-profile personalities to show his appreciation for the Armed Forces today when he visit...
Monday, 13 August 2012
The Ministry of Defence today welcomed a donation from Olympic security provider, G4S, which will be used to support Armed Forces’ sporting and welfar...
Monday, 13 August 2012
The Ministry of Defence has welcomed a donation from Olympics security provider G4S which will be used to support Armed Forces' sporting and welfare o...
Monday, 13 August 2012
Ms Avril Dibbens, one of the longest-serving, current, full-time Ministry of Defence civil servants, is today celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of ...
Monday, 13 August 2012
The great and the good as well as stars of Team GB have thanked the British forces who helped provide security at the London 2012 Olympic venues, repo...
Monday, 13 August 2012
A squadron of cavalrymen have swapped their Challenger 2 tanks for Warthog armoured vehicles as they support the Afghan security forces in Helmand pro...
Monday, 13 August 2012
Portsmouth-based warship HMS Westminster returned home today from a deployment to the Middle East which included a £14m drugs bust....
Friday, 10 August 2012
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has delivered the final cabin in a major project to improve accommodation for Royal Navy personnel in Co...
Friday, 10 August 2012
It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from 30 Armoured Engineer Squadron, 26 Engineer Regiment, was killed ...
Friday, 10 August 2012
It's all change in the Gulf with the arrival of two new ships and two new crews to sustain the Royal Navy's long-term mine warfare force in the region...
Friday, 10 August 2012
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is making significant progress on hitting Government targets to green its operations and procurement - helping combat cl...
Friday, 10 August 2012
An Army reservist is one of a team of military personnel who has been carrying out personal, luggage and vehicle screening at Eton Dorney, one of the ...
Friday, 10 August 2012
A Gurkha Engineer is leading the British Army's Victory Ceremony flag-raising team which salutes Team GB's Olympic medal wins....
Friday, 10 August 2012
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from 3rd Battalion The Rifles has been killed in Afghanistan....
Thursday, 09 August 2012
The Ministry of Defence is investigating reports that forensic material belonging to Service personnel killed in action has been retained beyond the t...
Thursday, 09 August 2012
RAF personnel played an important role in the Lee Valley White Water Centre in Hertfordshire being awarded the title of best Olympic venue....
Thursday, 09 August 2012
A fresh focus is being put on fighting in metropolitan areas as the British Army prepares for operations beyond Afghanistan....
Thursday, 09 August 2012
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has taken time out from her busy schedule supporting London 2012 Olympic events nationwide to visit members of t...
Thursday, 09 August 2012
Army reservists from Wales are thinking like Taliban bomb-makers in order to build a realistic improvised explosive device (IED) search facility to tr...
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, visited Armed Forces personnel based at Hainault, Essex, this morning to thank them for their ...
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
HMS Sutherland has relieved her sister ship HMS Westminster in the Indian Ocean after some final boarding party training in Crete and passage through ...
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, and LOCOG Chair Lord Coe visited Armed Forces personnel based at Hainault in Essex this mornin...
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
Survey ship HMS Echo has become the first Royal Navy ship to visit Libya since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi....
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
A staff sergeant serving with Headquarters 43 (Wessex) Brigade, based in Tidworth, is now on our TV screens as a line judge for the Olympic indoor vol...
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
Military working dogs provide valuable capability to British patrols on the front line. But procurement by DE&S begins many miles from Afghanistan....