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  • Vets’ health pledge

    VETERANS AND their families are to receive improved and targeted healthcare, the Government has revealed, as the UK continues to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

  • VE 80 Day

    ONLOOKERS CHEERED as the Red Arrows soared over Buckingham Palace during the 80th anniversary commemorations for Victory in Europe Day, which marked the beginning of the end of WWII.

  • Crew View

    THE JOINT Force Communications and Information Systems (Middle East) is a Tri-Service unit with personnel based across the Middle East.

  • Boxers hitting their peak

    SERVICE BOXERS are swapping three-minute rounds in the ring for the National 3 Peaks Challenge to raise funds for RAFA later this month.

  • Lifesavers

    MEDICS PRACTISED some of the lifesaving skills they will need in responding to international humanitarian crises, from the RAF’s biggest base.

  • Falcons Fall In

    DAREDEVIL PARACHUTISTS from the RAF Falcons officially launched their season with a display above their Oxfordshire home.

  • Rock and Awe

    AWESOME CLIMBING skills graced the Awesome Walls venue in Sheffield as the Mountaineering Association held its annual Festival of Climbing Championships.

  • Red Sea drone factory blitzed

    TYPHOONS DROPPED Paveway IV precision-guided bombs on a suspected Houthi drone factory in a joint operation with US forces, according to details just released.

  • P-8 U-boat drill

    UK MARITIME surveillance crews are honing their sub-hunting skills alongside the German Navy as Nato prepares to swell numbers of its Poseidon P-8 fleet.

  • Bros in arms bridge the Gulf

    BROTHERS˜IN˜ARMS ANDREW and Alex Warry joined Forces in the Gulf this month as Brize Norton-based Atlas crews flew in supplies to HMS Lancaster in Bahrain.

  • Hebrides memorial

    A SHACKLETON crew who died when they crashed into a Scottish hill have been remembered 35 years on.

  • Licence to drill

    PERSONNEL LED a simulated aircraft crash exercise to test response rates and procedures at Valley.

  • Typhoon on a Rolls

    A £563 million contract for Rolls-Royce to maintain the RAF’s fleet of Typhoon fighter jets has been announced.