Sister ships HMS Iron Duke and HMS Richmond returned home to Portsmouth today, 28 July 2011, where they were met by cheering crowds of families and friends, having spent more than six months at sea.

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The final phase of the MOD's pelvic protection system will be issued to troops on the front line in Afghanistan in the next few months along with a new Personal Clothing System.

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A new memorial to the fallen gunners of the Royal Artillery was dedicated at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, last week.

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Communications specialists based at Royal Air Force Leeming have spent ten days in the field preparing for their forthcoming role in support of operations in Libya.

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Two Royal Engineers are currently bringing the wealth of their vast military experience to southern Afghanistan, to help Helmand's civilian population build for its future.

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An RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) team yesterday helped rescue a woman who plunged towards a cliff edge in Cornwall in her car. Report by Lorraine McBride.

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Having arrived off the coast of Libya this weekend, HMS Sutherland has already conducted a boarding operation under the auspices of UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.

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A Gurkha soldier who received a Mention in Dispatches (MID) for bravely holding off an insurgent ambush on an Afghan National Police (ANP) patrol two years ago is back in Helmand once again.

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Units from 12 Mechanized Brigade have been training at BATUS (British Army Training Unit Suffield), on the prairies of Canada, in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan in early 2012.

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Company C, 3rd Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment, Task Force Falcon, is a medical evacuation unit, performing patient transfers from one base to another and picking up patients from the point of injury, which in this case usually means the battlefield.

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