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News story: British and Portuguese marines train together 27 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
The 38 Portuguese marines received a demonstration of the equipment used by the ship’s Royal Marines assault squadron as she sailed from Lisbon, including the ‘rapid beach profiling system’ used by th...
News story: Nominate now for the Millies 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
The Millies have become a key fixture of the military calendar, offering the British public the chance to pay tribute to the men and women of our Armed Forces and highlighting specific brave deeds. A...
News story: Stirling to host Armed Forces Day 2014 27 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
Plans will soon be underway to create a spectacular national event on 28 June 2014 in the historic city, enabling the local community to lead the nation in honouring UK Armed Forces personnel past and...
News story: Sailors sit GCSEs at sea 23 Aug 2013 | 07:18 pm
Despite being almost constantly on operations and working 6-hour-on, 6-hour-off ‘defence watches’, around 10% of the ship’s crew have managed to study for and take some of the 13 qualifications availa...
News story: New accommodation for Scottish naval base 23 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
The investment will provide new accommodation for personnel working and serving their country at the Faslane base, which is the largest employment site in Scotland, supporting 6,700 military and civil...
News story: The RAF's first female Air Vice-Marshal 23 Aug 2013 | 01:58 pm
Air Vice-Marshal West will take up the role of Director of Projects and Programme Delivery at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. She will lead the way in programming and delivering multi-million...
News story: Nominations welcome for the Millies 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
The Armed Forces and the public have until the end of Monday, 9 September 2013, to nominate individuals and units for an award at this year’s Millies. Last year’s winners were all equally inspiration...
Guidance: New Employment Model components 21 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
The New Employment Model (NEM) is the most thorough review of service personnel terms and conditions of service (career structures, pay, accommodation, training, etc.) in a generation. This document ...
News story: Task Force Helmand HQ leaves Lashkar Gah 19 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
The move, which was completed on 9 August, has been hailed as probably the most complex headquarters move on operations ever undertaken by the British Army. Task Force Helmand (TFH) headquarters has ...
News story: UK hosts largest European military graduation parade 19 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
Some 700 Junior Soldiers from Cambria, Peninsula and Burma companies marched onto the parade ground at Uniacke Barracks in front of over 6,000 relatives and friends. Major General Tim Radford inspect...
