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Lesley, an RAF Reservist, is currently on a training exercise in the Ascension Islands: This Reserves Day I'm one of the UK’s Reservists who are serving on operations or training exercises overseas.
Reserves Day was also celebrated yesterday at an event hosted by the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, at Admiralty House in London.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has appeared on Sunday's BBC’s Andrew Marr show, while there is widespread coverage of a daring rescue during a Red Devil parachute display.
Foreign and defence affairs lead several papers today, including picture spreads from yesterday’s Trooping of the Colour.
This month the Ministry of Defence published the most detailed analysis ever of British casualties from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
Items of Defence interest this morning include news that HMS Bulwark arrived back in Italy this morning after rescuing hundreds of migrants this week. The migrants are said to be fleeing Libya. Yesterday the crew of HMS Bulwark helped Italy's coastguard rescue …
Defence related news coverage today focuses on the Queen’s speech as well as further coverage of ISIL, including the story that jihadists have unleashed a wave of suicide attacks targeting pro-Government forces in western Anbar, a day after Baghdad began a …
With the eyes of the world on Westminster, the professionalism and pageantry of the Armed Forces were on show for all to see today as they escorted Her Majesty The Queen from BuckinghamPalace to the House of Lords.
It’s one month to go until Armed Forces Day and plans are well advanced for a spectacular array of events up and down the country.
As the Republic of Ireland votes to legalise same-sex marriage in a historic referendum, Commander Land Forces (CLF) Lieutenant General James Everard writes about the Army's latest LGBT conference.