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Monday, 25 June 2012
Communities across the country are getting behind the Armed Forces Covenant to improve the lives of Service personnel and their families....
Monday, 25 June 2012
A delegation from the Libyan Navy recently visited HMS Raleigh and Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) for an insight into the methods used by the Ro...
Monday, 25 June 2012
Territorial Army (TA) soldiers from the Royal Wessex Yeomanry have recently honed their skills on one of the most sophisticated military vehicles in t...
Friday, 22 June 2012
A Royal Marine who survived major brain tumour surgery and a Royal Navy student nurse, who is raising money for charity in honour of troops killed in ...
Friday, 22 June 2012
British paratroopers have been training alongside the Royal Army of Oman over the last two weeks to hone the infantry skills of both armies' soldiers....
Friday, 22 June 2012
Royal Navy frigate HMS St Albans has spent the past week in Germany where members of the ship's company paid their respects to the fallen at the Commo...
Friday, 22 June 2012
The Royal Air Force has won this year's Inter Services Twenty20 Cricket Tournament which was held at Lord's cricket ground in London earlier this week...
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Defence Minister Peter Luff has today visited Europe’s biggest Defence Vehicle Demonstration (DVD) in Millbrook, Bedfordshire, where he saw the unveil...
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Personnel at North East England's naval reserve unit HMS Calliope have been paid a visit by honorary Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve B...
Thursday, 21 June 2012
The British Army's new Foxhound vehicle has been unveiled for the first time since its arrival in Afghanistan....
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Afghan warriors and British soldiers recently bridged a canal while under enemy fire as part of an operation to bring security to a troubled area of H...
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Three serving and ex-serving members of the UK's Armed Forces will compete in the London 2012 Paralympic Games sitting volleyball events it was announ...
Thursday, 21 June 2012
The MOD has marked the 10th anniversary of its award-winning educational programme that equips students from deprived backgrounds with valuable lifelo...
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Speech by Sir Nick Harvey, Minister for the Armed Forces....
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Speech by Peter Luff, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology....
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Armed Forces personnel recently returned from Afghanistan paraded through Westminster yesterday and attended a reception at the Palace of Westminster....
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The Chief Inspector of Prisons has heaped praise on the Military Corrective Training Centre (MCTC) in Colchester in his report published today, 20 Jun...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
A government-backed initiative providing ex-Service personnel with the tools they need to get into business has now helped nearly 3,000 people over tw...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The Band of the Irish Guards along with the Welsh Guards' poster boy Garrison Sergeant Major William Mott helped to unveil giant Olympic Rings at Heat...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
A Royal Marines Band and representatives from all three Services launched Armed Forces Day 2012 in Scotland today at MOD Caledonia in Rosyth....
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Afghan policemen accompanied by British troops recently cleared an insurgent hot spot to the east of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province....
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Two military cadets were among a select group of youngsters who recently met Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the virtues of volunteering....
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Two MOD scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) were among those to be granted state honours this weekend by Her Majesty ...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Over 100 Service personnel from 904 Expeditionary Air Wing and their coalition partners based at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan donned pink T-shirts...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Sailors from the Royal Navy warship HMS Sutherland have rescued a deer from Plymouth Sound....
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Speech by Adrimal Sir Mark Stanhope, First Sea Lord....
Monday, 18 June 2012
The MoD has awarded Rolls Royce a £1.1 billion contract to produce new reactor cores for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines and upgrade the plant whe...
Monday, 18 June 2012
Deployed dads across Afghanistan's Helmand province received a welcome morale-boost yesterday when they opened Father's Day cards from their sons and ...
Monday, 18 June 2012
The MOD has secured a supplier to produce new reactor cores for the Royal Navy's nuclear submarines and to upgrade the plant where they will be built....
Monday, 18 June 2012
It has been announced that RAF Scampton is to remain the base for the RAF Aerobatic Team (RAFAT) - also known as the Red Arrows - and the RAF's Air Su...