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Medics tested on training exercise

Around 130 Army medics, both Regular and Reserve, have been training together in freezing Cumbrian temperatures; assessing and treating casualties in conditions designed to look and feel like a real-life conflict zone. Exercise Burton Fell was the first time 3 Medical Regiment’s Regular and Reserve soldiers had worked together on such a scale. The arrangement is an example of the Army’s new integration concept – where full time and Reserve soldiers train together and then […]

British Reservists leave for Sierra Leone

The first UK reserves and 100 regulars departed for Sierra Leone where they will help to tackle the Ebola outbreak. The regular and reserve personnel from across the three Services departed from RAF Brize Norton alongside members of the Canadian military. Once in Sierra Leone, personnel will take over from clinicians attached to 22 Field Hospital, who have been deployed since October, manning the 12 bed facility reserved to treat healthcare workers with Ebola. Julian […]

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