The British Army in Brunei comprises an Infantry Battalion and a Bell 212 Helicopter Flight of the Army Air Corps. The climate of Brunei is well suited to jungle operations and the Training Team Brunei run jungle warfare courses for all members of the British Army. The Infantry Battalion is supported by the small British Garrison, which provides all logistic and administrative support. The Training Team Brunei is the Army’s jungle warfare school. It runs […]
Army 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 […]
Hundreds of teenagers were put through their paces during a passing-out parade in Harrogate today. More than 400 Junior Soldiers marched off to a new career with their chosen regiments after graduating from the Army Foundation College in Penny Pot Lane. Some 22 Junior Soldiers were presented with prestigious trophies by the Army’s Adjutant-General, Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Berragan, while the remaining 435 held their heads high after gaining educational qualifications to set them off […]
Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade, the British Army’s rapid reaction force, have practised the skills needed to seize an airfield as they prepare for a major training exercise in America. Exercise Red Prepare saw the paratroopers of 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment assault an airfield on the Stanford Training Area in Norfolk, with close air support from two Apache attack helicopters from 3 Regiment Army Air Corps. Once it was secured, 23 Engineer Regiment […]
