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Defence in the Media: 19 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 19 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

Of note for Defence news today includes reporting around the situation in Libya, and the role of Daesh in the conflict. Libya The Sunday Times reports that as many as 20 British jihadists are fighting in Libya with Islamist groups, including Daesh. …

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Defence in the Media: 18 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 18 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

In today's Defence media there is reporting on flights for widows of servicemen killed in the Falklands conflict.

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RAF WWII hero's final resting place identified after almost 75 years

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 17 June 2016 - Categories: Commemoration

...service on 16 June in Schiermonnikoog Cemetery, The Netherlands, the grave of Sgt James Bent was rededicated in his name during a moving service attended by surviving members of his...

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Defence in the Media: 17 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 17 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

...slavery. HMS Somerset (foreground) and the Chinese Ship Xiangtan move through the Dover Strait earlier this week. Follow us on Twitter and don’t forget to sign up for email alerts....

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Defence in the Media: 16 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 16 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media, Events, Operations

...16 Air Assault Brigade some 2,000 troops are taking part, the largest British contingent to deploy on a NATO exercise in 2016. The joint force includes 3 PARA Battlegroup, including...

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Defence in the Media: 15 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 15 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media
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...coverage this morning in The Daily Telegraph as well as online on Sky News, Mail Online and the Express speculates how UK troops might be deployed to Eastern Europe under...

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Defence in the Media: 14 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 14 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

...list. Iraq BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme included a report about the current ground offensive to liberate the Iraqi city of Fallujah from Daesh control. The report highlighted that while...

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Defence in the Media: 13 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 13 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

There are stories on the Queen’s birthday honours list and comments from senior French admirals on an EU Army in today’s Defence-related media. 

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Defence in the Media: 12 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 12 June 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

...invested £660million in service housing over the last six years. Since April, the Government’s Decent Homes standard has been applied to service family accommodation (SFA) and no properties which fail...

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Defence in the Media: 11 June 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 11 June 2016 - Categories: Commemoration, Defence in the media, Events
Almost fifteen hundred soldiers from the Household Division were on parade to mark the Queen’s Official 90th Birthday on 11th June 2016 on Horse Guards Parade, at the ceremony known as Trooping the Colour. All the Royal Colonels accompanied Her with The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, and The Princess Royal also riding on the parade. This year, the Colour being trooped in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen is that of Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards. The Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, Lieutenant Colonel James Thurstan, Coldstream Guards, commanded the Parade. The Soldiers were on parade in their traditional ceremonial uniforms of the Household Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery, and Foot Guards. The musicians in the Household Cavalry Band and the Drum Majors were in their priceless Gold Coats. There was more than 300 horses on parade, and musicians from all the Household Division Bands & Corps of Drums marched and played as one. The famous Drum Horses of the Household Cavalry Band carrying priceless antique solid silver drums weighing 80lbs each were also on parade.

Today's media is dominated by previews and coverage of the Trooping of the Colour ceremony, including a flypast by military aircraft. TROOPING OF THE COLOUR The Daily Telegraph is running...

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