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Defence in the Media: 27 June 2017

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 27 June 2017 - Categories: Army 2020, Defence in the media, Equipment, Medical, Personnel, Reactive statements, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first QE Class aircraft carrier, set sail from Rosyth yesterday to commence first stage sea trials off the north-east of Scotland.

...is an enduring example of British imagination, ingenuity, invention that will help keep us safe for decades to come. She is built by the best, crewed by the best and...

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Defence in the media: 5 March 2017

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 5 March 2017 - Categories: Legacy, Medical, Reactive statements
Image shows a Royal Navy Bomb Disposal expert, detonating the German WWII SC 500lb bomb. After a long, cold night of expert and cautious work at the Brondesbury Park building site near Brent, rendering the fuse safe on the German WW2 SC 500lb air dropped bomb yesterday, the Army’s Royal Engineers were relieved to hand over the ultimate disposal of the 500lb explosive to a four-man Royal Navy Team from the SOUTHERN DIVING UNIT (2) based in Horsea Island, Portsmouth. The Royal Navy team made a controlled demolition of the WW2 ordnance at Shoeburyness Range near Southend, Essex at 1130am on Saturday morning (4 March 17). AB (Diver) Liam Boardman initiated the demolition of the bomb, supported by the Navy’s team of duty Mine Clearance Divers, led by Petty Officer Diver Craig Waghorn and including Leading Diver Matthew Smark and AB Diver Steve Lundsten who travelled up last night from their Hampshire base to assist the Army team.

...part in the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, with many receiving life-long injuries and almost 700 making the supreme sacrifice. Medical care for Service Personnel The Sun writes that more...

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Inspirational Army nurse honoured

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 8 October 2015 - Categories: Personnel

...with experience gained during operational tours in Belize, the Middle East, the Balkans, Northern Ireland and southern Africa. These were interspersed with periods on the staff that gave me the...

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Study shows dramatic improvement in survival rates for battlefield casualties

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 30 May 2015 - Categories: Personnel

...demonstrated scientifically.   This new study describes the type, mechanism and severity of injuries sustained by UK servicemen and women over 10 years of war. The study includes the numbers...

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