The Army has announced the launch of its first Reserve Military Working Dog Squadron as part of the major restructure under Future Reserves 2020. The new 101 Military Working Dog Squadron will form part of 1st Military Working Dog Regiment and will be based at St George’s Barracks, North Luffenham. This is the first time that reservists can train to become dog handlers, and men and women aged between 18 and 50 are invited to […]
Counter-IED specialists to train PeshmergaArmy trainers are heading to Northern Iraq, along with 1,000 bomb detectors. The specialists drawn from across the Army, will be based in the Kurdish capital Erbil. So far more than 1000 Kurdish Peshmerga have completed training and the UK will lead the Coalition’s counter-IED training programme, which is due to start this month. Troops will train Kurdish Peshmergas to use Vallon metal detectors, which were central to counter-IED efforts in Afghanistan. “playing to […]
The Light Dragoons lead light cavalry chargeThe punch packed by The Light Dragoons, a light cavalry regiment tasked to provide the Army’s eyes and ears on the battlefield, has been tested. Exercise WESSEX STORM has seen the unit carrying out live fire training on the rain-lashed STANTA ranges near Thetford, close to their base at Swanton Morley in Norfolk. Deploying on Jackal 2 and Coyote armoured vehicles, the soldiers are training alongside 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, 21 Engineer Regiment and […]