Defence in the Media: 23 July 2016

...headquartered in Scotland will be the first in the UK to offer ground close combat roles to women. According to the article, the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry (SNIY), based...
...headquartered in Scotland will be the first in the UK to offer ground close combat roles to women. According to the article, the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry (SNIY), based...
...constant review. ARMY TRAINING The Sun and Mirror report that a second solider collapsed during a Brecon Beacons march on the hottest day of the year. Both papers suggest the...
Major Dean Murch MBE, Officer Commanding, The Rifles Company, 1st Infantry Training Battalion, Infantry Training Centre, said:
Today's media includes further reporting on the death of a soldier in Brecon.
...The safety of our personnel is our absolute priority and, while deaths in training are rare, any death is a tragedy. As well as a police investigation, a Service Inquiry...
Today's Defence news is dominated by last night’s vote in the House of Commons in which MPs voted overwhelmingly to renew our continuous at sea deterrent. Trident The renewal of Trident is widely covered by broadcasters this morning following the result of last night's vote, …
This morning’s broadcast news focuses on today’s Commons debate on Trident. Trident
With media today focused on news of an attempted coup in Turkey overnight, of note for Defence news is an interview with the outgoing Chief of the Defence Staff, and the appointment of a new Armed Forces Minister. CDS The Daily Telegraph carries …
...for the Royal Navy to retain a nuclear deterrent permanently at sea. The Herald, The Daily Record and The Scotsman all report that the UK government has signalled that it...
The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was one of the defining events of the First World War. The British Army assumed a major role in what was intended to be the main Allied effort on …
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