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[h=2]1 RHA demonstrate capability and fire power[/h]
Soldiers of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery have completed a live firing demonstration on the Salisbury Plain Training Area, in Wiltshire. The Joint Fires and Targeting in the Combined Arms Battle demonstration, which lasted five hours, was broken down into themed areas of capability and joint integration, culminating in a live firing demonstration; Crown copyright.
[h=2]D Company, 5 RIFLES: A day in images[/h]
These iconic images tell the story of a typical day for the ‘Delta Dogs’ of D Company in Nahr-e Saraj. The stunning pictures, taken by Sgt Wes Calder, show how the soldiers of the Company prepare and conduct their daily patrols.
They give exclusive insight into the area in which the soldiers work and some of the different terrain they have to cover.
These operations to deter the insurgents and support the local population are typical of what the British Army are doing every day across Central Helmand.
You can see the soldiers on patrol, conducting vehicle checks and interacting with the locals.
The local children freely speak with the soldiers and a boy points out where he has seen some insurgents.
They give exclusive insight into the area in which the soldiers work and some of the different terrain they have to cover.
These operations to deter the insurgents and support the local population are typical of what the British Army are doing every day across Central Helmand.
You can see the soldiers on patrol, conducting vehicle checks and interacting with the locals.
The local children freely speak with the soldiers and a boy points out where he has seen some insurgents.
[h=2]1 Royal Welsh on vital mission specific training[/h]
More than 300 soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (Royal Welch Fusiliers) have carried out a five-day, live-firing exercise on the Castlemartin ranges in Pembrokeshire .
The exercise tests the combined arms firepower and put soldiers through their paces in the most demanding and realistic scenarios available outside of theatre.
Soldiers of B Company, 1 R Welsh, were on the platoon level ranges firing at ‘live’ targets, working with military vehicles and practicing their casualty drills. The Fusiliers also took part in drills to counter IEDs.
The exercise was conducted in preparation for a six-month tour to Afghanistan in 2012 as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) – 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] February 2012
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The exercise tests the combined arms firepower and put soldiers through their paces in the most demanding and realistic scenarios available outside of theatre.
Soldiers of B Company, 1 R Welsh, were on the platoon level ranges firing at ‘live’ targets, working with military vehicles and practicing their casualty drills. The Fusiliers also took part in drills to counter IEDs.
The exercise was conducted in preparation for a six-month tour to Afghanistan in 2012 as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) – 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] February 2012
©MOD/Crown Copyright 2012
[h=2]British Soldier survives two Taliban gunshots[/h]
A British soldier has twice narrowly avoided serious injury in Afghanistan after being shot at on two consecutive days by Taliban gunmen.
Lance Corporal Denis Larubi, from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (2 MERCIAN), was twice shot at by insurgents while on sentry duty at Checkpoint Langar in northern Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province.
The first shot struck ballistic glass in the guard tower right in front of his face, but did not penetrate the toughened window. The next day he was shot at again, but this time the bullet ricocheted off his weapon and hit the shoulder of his body armour. The insurgent shooter was spotted using deserted compounds to conceal his movements, but he was tracked by surveillance assets and was later targeted by a precision strike.
Lance Corporal Larubi, aged 30, known as 'Rubes' by his colleagues, lives with his partner and their daughter at the 2 MERCIAN barracks in Holyrood, Belfast.
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Lance Corporal Denis Larubi with a bullet tear clearly showing on the left shoulder of his body armour
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Lance Corporal Denis Larubi in the body armour which saved him from a bullet fired by an insurgent gunman
[Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
Lance Corporal Denis Larubi[Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
Lance Corporal Denis Larubi, from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (2 MERCIAN), was twice shot at by insurgents while on sentry duty at Checkpoint Langar in northern Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province.
The first shot struck ballistic glass in the guard tower right in front of his face, but did not penetrate the toughened window. The next day he was shot at again, but this time the bullet ricocheted off his weapon and hit the shoulder of his body armour. The insurgent shooter was spotted using deserted compounds to conceal his movements, but he was tracked by surveillance assets and was later targeted by a precision strike.
Lance Corporal Larubi, aged 30, known as 'Rubes' by his colleagues, lives with his partner and their daughter at the 2 MERCIAN barracks in Holyrood, Belfast.
Full Story:
Lance Corporal Denis Larubi with a bullet tear clearly showing on the left shoulder of his body armour
[Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
Lance Corporal Denis Larubi in the body armour which saved him from a bullet fired by an insurgent gunman
[Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
Lance Corporal Denis Larubi[Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
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[h=2]British Army Combined Arms Demonstration Day[/h]
[h=2]British Army Combined Arms Demonstration Day[/h]
The Combined Arms Demonstration Day was held by 4 Rifles and the 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancasters Regiment at Sidbury Hill, Tidworth on the 09th February 2012. The demonstration was to enhance understanding of combined arms contribution to the Light Infantry and Mechanised Infantry in the deliberate defence. Units within the Brigade were split down into groups to conduct a round robin on all of the display stands. The display stands consisted of a model exercise, equipment being displayed and shown by the soldiers and a final attack on the area.
Crown Copyright. Photo: Corporal Kellie Williams
Crown Copyright. Photo: Corporal Kellie Williams
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British military armored vehicles try to rescue an armored vehicle after it was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED), killing six British soldiers in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. It is the biggest single loss of UK life at one time in Afghanistan since a Nimrod crash killed 14 soldiers in 2006.
My sincere condolences to these brave mens families..
A combination photograph released by Britain's Ministry of Defence in London March 8, 2012, shows the six British soldiers who were were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosion in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on March 7, 2012. Pictured (clockwise from top L) are Sergeant Nigel Coupe, Corporal Jake Hartley, Private Anthony Frampton, Private Daniel Wilford, Private Daniel Wade and Private Christopher Kershaw.
British military armored vehicles try to rescue an armored vehicle after it was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED), killing six British soldiers in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. It is the biggest single loss of UK life at one time in Afghanistan since a Nimrod crash killed 14 soldiers in 2006.
A combination photograph released by Britain's Ministry of Defence in London March 8, 2012, shows the six British soldiers who were were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosion in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on March 7, 2012. Pictured (clockwise from top L) are Sergeant Nigel Coupe, Corporal Jake Hartley, Private Anthony Frampton, Private Daniel Wilford, Private Daniel Wade and Private Christopher Kershaw.
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Exercise EAGLE SAPPER has tested the skills of Woodbridge-based 23 Engineer Regiment (Air Assault).
The training has seen troops challenged to break out of the Afghanistan mindset and return to their core role of providing engineering support to airborne forces. This has meant swapping working with vehicles and living in permanent bases to living out of rucksacks and operating with engineering equipment designed to be dropped by parachute and manhandled.
During the exercise, which has taken place across East Anglia, troops have polished their infantry skills on the ranges at Thetford and practised their core engineering abilities, while living out in the field and marching more than 40 miles carrying rucksacks weighing up to 100lbs.
On Wednesday, (7 March), 51 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers was at Waterbeach Barracks, near Cambridge, after an overnight tab – a fast march carrying rucksacks – from Ely. The sappers built a water point capable of supplying the daily needs of 1,500 people, built a bridge capable of carrying a Challenger 2 main battle tank and repaired simulated bomb damage to an airfield.© MOD / Crown Copyright, 2012.
Exercise EAGLE SAPPER has tested the skills of Woodbridge-based 23 Engineer Regiment (Air Assault).
The training has seen troops challenged to break out of the Afghanistan mindset and return to their core role of providing engineering support to airborne forces. This has meant swapping working with vehicles and living in permanent bases to living out of rucksacks and operating with engineering equipment designed to be dropped by parachute and manhandled.
During the exercise, which has taken place across East Anglia, troops have polished their infantry skills on the ranges at Thetford and practised their core engineering abilities, while living out in the field and marching more than 40 miles carrying rucksacks weighing up to 100lbs.
On Wednesday, (7 March), 51 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers was at Waterbeach Barracks, near Cambridge, after an overnight tab – a fast march carrying rucksacks – from Ely. The sappers built a water point capable of supplying the daily needs of 1,500 people, built a bridge capable of carrying a Challenger 2 main battle tank and repaired simulated bomb damage to an airfield.© MOD / Crown Copyright, 2012.