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Friday, 08 June 2012
A yachtsman, overcome by stormy weather in the Atlantic, has been rescued by the Royal Navy's Cornwall-based Search and Rescue squadron....
Friday, 08 June 2012
A report out this week shows that the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force have put numeracy and literacy skills at the heart of their development pro...
Friday, 08 June 2012
Private sector bidders for the largest-ever UK military training estate contract have begun a nationwide tour of key training areas and facilities und...
Friday, 08 June 2012
Trooper Emmanuel Nartey, from the First Royal Tank Regiment, has been selected to represent Ghana in judo at the London Olympics....
Friday, 08 June 2012
Recently returned from Helmand, Brigadier Patrick Sanders says the years of effort and sacrifice are producing results....
Thursday, 07 June 2012
A new physical recreation training centre has been officially opened by HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire....
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Soldiers who fly and maintain the Army's Apache attack helicopters have been presented with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal on their return from ope...
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has discussed the key considerations behind the role of the Army in Future Force 2020....
Thursday, 07 June 2012
On Friday, 1 June 2012, five Victoria Cross recipients came face-to-face for the first time with the guns from which the Victoria Cross is struck....
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Prince William has passed the tests that now see him qualified as a Search and Rescue Operational Captain....
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Royal Engineers who have been helping to build a more secure Afghanistan have received their richly deserved 'Herrick' campaign medals at Chetwynd Bar...
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Speech by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence...
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Royal Naval Officer Lieutenant Pete Reed and Army officer Captain Heather Stanning have been officially selected to compete for Team GB at the 2012 Ol...
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
From escorting the Royal Barge and conducting a flypast over The Mall, to gun salutes and mounted processions, the Armed Forces have had a central rol...
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Being thousands of miles from home hasn't stopped British forces celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in Afghanistan....
Tuesday, 05 June 2012
The main Diamond Jubilee events took place in London today with over 1,000 members of the Armed Forces involved in ceremonial roles....
Sunday, 03 June 2012
Service personnel were out in force on London's River Thames today as part of the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant....
Sunday, 03 June 2012
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment was killed in Afghanistan today...
Friday, 01 June 2012
The Royal Navy’s aviators have revealed their spectacular flypast formation for the finale of the Thames River Pageant....
Thursday, 31 May 2012
The Ministry of Defence has appointed a new Chief Scientific Adviser to oversee its science and technology programme, to ensure battle-winning technol...
Thursday, 31 May 2012
The MOD has announced today that Professor Vernon Gibson will be appointed as its new Chief Scientific Adviser....
Thursday, 31 May 2012
The father of a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan began the final leg of a 2,460-mile (3,960km) charity cycle ride around the UK this week....
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Thousands of members of the UK's Armed Forces across all three Services will be taking part in ceremonial duties at various events this weekend to cel...
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Royal Navy minehunters HMS Shoreham and HMS Atherstone set sail this week for three-year deployments to the Gulf region....
Thursday, 31 May 2012
The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) honoured more than 160 soldiers recently returned from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan with a parade and ...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Royal Marines of 42 Commando at Bickleigh near Plymouth marked the completion of their newly-built medical and dental centre with a ceremonial opening...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Service personnel from RAF High Wycombe have paraded through the Buckinghamshire town of Princes Risborough with 'swords drawn, bayonets fixed, colour...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
A soldier who was almost paralysed by a gunman whilst serving in Afghanistan is to row in the historic Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames thi...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Troops from No 1 Company of the Irish Guards have been conducting public order training to prepare them for their upcoming role as part of the UK's co...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Over 150 paratroopers from the UK and the United States have parachuted together onto Salisbury Plain as part of an annual exchange programme called E...