For the run-up to Christmas, the MOD online news team has once again picked out the images that best represent our defence news coverage over the past year.

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The Royal Navy's duty helicopter Search and Rescue team from HMS Gannet were called out to Ayr Golf Course last weekend to evacuate a teenage sledging casualty whose winter fun took a turn for the worse.

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Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has just completed a visit to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where he thanked UK troops based there for their hard work supporting operations in Afghanistan.

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While there had been substantial progress in 2010 in Afghanistan the gains are not irreversible and there is much to be achieved in 2011 senior British military and civilian officials said yesterday.

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To give the servicemembers a night to relax and know that Americans back home appreciate the sacrifices they are making, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston sponsored his seventh United Service Organizations' Hope and Freedom Tour at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Dec. 17.

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He's a calm individual. His voice is barely above a whisper. Maybe because waiting for the enemy to attack in a hastily built fighting position in the Hindu Kush Mountains makes everybody whisper. Maybe because he doesn't get that excited anymore.

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Ambush, the second of the Royal Navy's new class of powerful nuclear-powered attack submarines, was officially named last week during a ceremony at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness.

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For the run-up to Christmas, the MOD online news team has once again picked out the images that best represent our defence news coverage over the past year.

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It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from 216 Parachute Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals, was killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, 21 December 2010.

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The most complex military sales case the UK has undertaken with the US Air Force for the last 70 years is well under way.

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