Surveillance video shows a sailor who was shot near the Fort Detrick Army base in Maryland entering a business and pleading for help while covered in blood. The footage sheds new light on what happened in the moments after Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a 38-year-old Navy hospital corpsman, shot and injured two sailors at a business … Read more
Surveillance video shows a sailor who was shot near the Fort Detrick Army base in Maryland entering a business and pleading for help while covered in blood. The footage sheds new light on what happened in the moments after Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a 38-year-old Navy hospital corpsman, shot and injured two sailors at a business … Read more
Green berets: Climate change ‘firmly a defence problem’ says army chief in new report that recommends the Armed Forces ‘take transformative action’ to become more eco-friendly Lt General Richard Nugee led the Climate Change and Sustainability Review He said that climate change was ‘changing the way our military fight’ The report, released today, suggests military … Read more
Former Army Lance Corporal, 47, who sent email to Alastair Campbell threatening to shoot him in the back of the head avoids jail Lee Gould, 47, emailed Campbell to say: ‘I would happily put one in…your skull’ Gould sent the email during a mental health crisis, his prosecutor told the court He was sentenced to … Read more
More than 100 Royal Air Force planes and helicopters are to be scrapped as part of a defence revolution which will see most manned aircraft replaced by drones. The radical move to ground 114 fighter jets, intelligence and transport aircraft and helicopters last night raised questions over the UK’s ability to launch large-scale military operations. The … Read more
More than 100 Royal Air Force planes and helicopters are to be scrapped as part of a defence revolution which will see most manned aircraft replaced by drones. The radical move to ground 114 fighter jets, intelligence and transport aircraft and helicopters last night raised questions over the UK’s ability to launch large-scale military operations. The … Read more
What’s in the Defence Command Paper? Changes are set to include: Additional investment for ‘intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance’ as well as for electronic warfare Additional £3billion funding for the British Army The National Cyber Force will be expanded New Space Command to co-ordinate military and commercial operation Royal Navy will get a new Multi Role Ocean … Read more
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and committee chairman Tobias Ellwood in texting war over Army cutbacks Mr Wallace used private text message to tear into defence committee chairman Mr Wallace appeared to accuse Mr Ellwood of a ‘Ladybird book’ approach earlier Rows are latest sign of Tory tensions over tomorrow’s defence command paper By Brendan Carlin … Read more
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and committee chairman Tobias Ellwood in texting war over Army cutbacks Mr Wallace used private text message to tear into defence committee chairman Mr Wallace appeared to accuse Mr Ellwood of a ‘Ladybird book’ approach earlier Rows are latest sign of Tory tensions over tomorrow’s defence command paper By Brendan Carlin … Read more
A British Army soldier hanged himself after being told to ‘man up’ when requesting time off to look after his daughter during lockdown, an inquest heard. Rifleman Mitchell Matthews, 24, was given time off to care for his then four-year-old as his nurse wife Katy worked on the NHS frontline during the pandemic. But in … Read more