Armed Forces personnel are being sent into war zones without proper training because of costcutting the Conservatives have claimed.
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31 Dec 2008
2009: New Years Honours for Service personnel and defence civilians
Over 120 UK Service personnel have been granted State honours by Her Majesty The Queen in her annual New Years Honours list.
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29 Dec 2008
Winter offensive against the Taliban in Helmand leads to scores of British casualties
In eight weeks of fighting 16 soldiers and marines have been killed and around 60 have been wounded in central Helmand.
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Royal Marine who died on Christmas Eve is named
A soldier who died in Afghanistan on Christmas Eve was leading his men from the front as they fought off Taliban insurgents in a prolonged firefight the Ministry of Defence said.
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British troops open their Christmas Thanks!
Armed Forces personnel serving across the world received around 20 different gifts each on Christmas Day this year courtesy of uk4u Thanks!
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28 Dec 2008
Army could allow 'Fat Camp' recruits to tackle staffing shortage - Telegraph
Army could allow 'Fat Camp' recruits to tackle staffing shortage - Telegraph: "
Army could allow 'Fat Camp' recruits to tackle staffing shortage
The Army is considering lowering its entry requirements to allow more overweight applicants and those with criminal records or visible tattoos."
Army could allow 'Fat Camp' recruits to tackle staffing shortage
The Army is considering lowering its entry requirements to allow more overweight applicants and those with criminal records or visible tattoos."
Winter offensive against the Taliban in Helmand leads to scores of British casualties - Telegraph:
"Winter offensive against the Taliban in Helmand leads to scores of British casualties
A major winter offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan has led to scores of casualties among British troops.
"Winter offensive against the Taliban in Helmand leads to scores of British casualties
A major winter offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan has led to scores of casualties among British troops.
27 Dec 2008
Ministry of Defence | Defence News | Military Operations | Lance Corporal Benjamin Whatley RM killed in Afghanistan: "Lance Corporal Benjamin Whatley RM killed in Afghanistan
A Military Operations news article
26 Dec 08
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It is with deep sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Lance Corporal Benjamin Whatley, from Lima Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, was killed in Afghanistan on 24 December 2008.
Lance Corporal Whatley
A Military Operations news article
26 Dec 08
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It is with deep sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Lance Corporal Benjamin Whatley, from Lima Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, was killed in Afghanistan on 24 December 2008.
Lance Corporal Whatley
Battlefield death rates cut in half - Telegraph
Battlefield death rates cut in half - Telegraph: "Battlefield death rates cut in half
British battlefield casualties have been almost halved by radical new changes implemented by medics, the Daily Telegraphhas learned.
By Thomas Harding Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 9:04AM GMT 27 Dec 2008
The latest Ministry of Defence figures show that the death rate on the front line in Afghanistan has dropped from almost a quarter dying from their wounds to one in eight.
The massive improvement in survival rates has been put down to 'miracle bandages', a new tourniquet and the use of trauma consultants on board evacuation helicopters.
Lt Gen Louis Lillywhite, the Surgeon General, said that a 'significant number' of troops had been saved as a result of the advances. He added: 'That series of innovations has resulted in a survival rate that is better than anybody has previously achieved.'
Scientists at Porton Down laboratory have investigated the benefits of radical new American and Israeli bandages over the last five years. Military medics are now all issued with the QuickClot and HemCon bandages that immediately cauterise wounds preventing major blood loss.
Every soldier is now issued with a Combat Application Tourniquet and told to apply it first before a field dressing.
But military chiefs believe the use of large Chinook and Merlin helicopters carrying an anaesthetist or emergency medical consultant plus four medics are the key factor.
With most journeys in Helmand involving a two-hour round trip, the doctors can effectively set up a trauma station in the back of the helicopter keeping the patient alive until they reach the field hospital in Camp Bastion.
Previously between 22 and 24 per cent of those seriously wounded died, but in the last two years this figure has dropped to 12 or 13 per cent.
'It's looking as though it's certainly saving at least a third more lives than previously,' said Lt Gen Lillywhite."
British battlefield casualties have been almost halved by radical new changes implemented by medics, the Daily Telegraphhas learned.
By Thomas Harding Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 9:04AM GMT 27 Dec 2008
The latest Ministry of Defence figures show that the death rate on the front line in Afghanistan has dropped from almost a quarter dying from their wounds to one in eight.
The massive improvement in survival rates has been put down to 'miracle bandages', a new tourniquet and the use of trauma consultants on board evacuation helicopters.
Lt Gen Louis Lillywhite, the Surgeon General, said that a 'significant number' of troops had been saved as a result of the advances. He added: 'That series of innovations has resulted in a survival rate that is better than anybody has previously achieved.'
Scientists at Porton Down laboratory have investigated the benefits of radical new American and Israeli bandages over the last five years. Military medics are now all issued with the QuickClot and HemCon bandages that immediately cauterise wounds preventing major blood loss.
Every soldier is now issued with a Combat Application Tourniquet and told to apply it first before a field dressing.
But military chiefs believe the use of large Chinook and Merlin helicopters carrying an anaesthetist or emergency medical consultant plus four medics are the key factor.
With most journeys in Helmand involving a two-hour round trip, the doctors can effectively set up a trauma station in the back of the helicopter keeping the patient alive until they reach the field hospital in Camp Bastion.
Previously between 22 and 24 per cent of those seriously wounded died, but in the last two years this figure has dropped to 12 or 13 per cent.
'It's looking as though it's certainly saving at least a third more lives than previously,' said Lt Gen Lillywhite."
26 Dec 2008
NEWS - UKNDA calls for tri-service solidarity against the defence cuts - UKNDA - The UK National Defence Association
NEWS - UKNDA calls for tri-service solidarity against the defence cuts - UKNDA - The UK National Defence Association: "Strong defence coffers
It’s not the Ministry of Defence that is mad but the government that has caused the “black hole” in defence funding over 10 and more years of default and neglect of our armed forces.
The Royal Navy’s long-promised carriers are now to be delayed again, as will be the planned fleet tankers. The army’s programme for new armoured vehicles is also being cut and delayed. Billions (if not trillions) of pounds are being manipulated (some would now say “printed”) by the government to bail this country out – but to what effect if our armed forces are rendered ineffectual?
We run a Support Our Armed Forces campaign – maybe we should change that to Save Our Armed Forces. The chief of the defence staff and all three of the service chiefs should now jointly and publicly protest this further weakening of the nation’s defences, and do so as an overwhelming show of tri-service solidarity.
Commander John Muxworthy, CEO, UK National Defence Association, Chilbolton, Hampshire"
It’s not the Ministry of Defence that is mad but the government that has caused the “black hole” in defence funding over 10 and more years of default and neglect of our armed forces.
The Royal Navy’s long-promised carriers are now to be delayed again, as will be the planned fleet tankers. The army’s programme for new armoured vehicles is also being cut and delayed. Billions (if not trillions) of pounds are being manipulated (some would now say “printed”) by the government to bail this country out – but to what effect if our armed forces are rendered ineffectual?
We run a Support Our Armed Forces campaign – maybe we should change that to Save Our Armed Forces. The chief of the defence staff and all three of the service chiefs should now jointly and publicly protest this further weakening of the nation’s defences, and do so as an overwhelming show of tri-service solidarity.
Commander John Muxworthy, CEO, UK National Defence Association, Chilbolton, Hampshire"
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