MoD investment drive
UK-BASED DEFENCE firms will be prioritised for government investment under a new defence industrial strategy to boost economic growth, employment and national security.
UK-BASED DEFENCE firms will be prioritised for government investment under a new defence industrial strategy to boost economic growth, employment and national security.
5-goal final period fightback makes it three in a row for titleholders
Nicole is poster girl of World Cup on Instagram
HUNDREDS OF guests joined military top brass and some of the UK’s best-loved celebrities at the glitzy Healing Military Minds fundraising ball – netting more than £35,000 to help fight PTSD and support thousands of veterans and serving personnel battling mental health problems.
Tributes to airman, 21, found dead at Lossiemouth
AIR-TO-AIR REFUELLERS took 50 giraffes to Africa to raise thousands of pounds for sick youngsters.
Reservist pilot returns to flying after ordeal
RAF High Wycombe’s Officers’ Mess hosted members of Invictus Team UK who will compete in the first-ever hybrid games in February in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
Deadlift gold for Sqn Ldr Vicky at Commonwealth Championships
THE RAF’s skateboarders produced three top-eight finishes at the recent Tri-Service Skate Jam event in Pitt Street Skatepark, Portsmouth.
SERVICE FOOTBALL’S Over-55 team paid its respects to former RAF and England star David Salkeld with a clash against England Veterans Over-60s.
RAF FIGHT pro Cpl Brad Axe has started his own gymnasium to spread the boxing gospel.
A PILOT who crashed a helicopter during training but later won the DFC during the Kosovo campaign has signed on at Cranwell’s Wall of Honour.
THE NAAFI fund has pledged £500,000 to improve facilities in the UK and 15 other countries across the world.
MEDALS WON by the last Great Escaper to be executed by the Gestapo have been returned to their RAF home.
A BRONZE statue of a Spitfire hero famed for downing Hitler’s V1 rockets has been completed 80 years after the World War II pilot’s death
Rivet Joint eyes 'enemy' forces during invasion drill
PUMA CREWS completed their final festive flight ferrying Father Christmas around 43 schools in Oxfordshire.
AS1 MEGAN Davenport blasted a double win at U52kg in the Bench-only Commonwealth Championships and Full Power Commonwealth Championships in South Africa.
Sqn Ldr Samantha May “I WAS a doctor, an athlete and captain of the women’s athletics team. I lost all of that in five seconds, so I lost my identity to a point. Invictus has given me part of that back,” said Sqn Ldr Samantha May.
IN 1928, 18-year-old Geoffrey Stephenson joined the RAF alongside Douglas Bader – years later he was held as a prisoner of war with Bader in Colditz.
GUNNERS DEPLOYED to Florida to practise their combat skills with allies.
STORAGE CHIEFS are hoping to pack in the punters – by displaying a vintage RAF Vampire T11 at their latest branch.
A WWII veteran enlisted a trio of Hollywood hearthrobs to help her celebrate her 103rd birthday.
TWO TYPHOON jets intercepted the Qatari Amir’s aircraft as it entered UK airspace to deliver a welcome radio message in Arabic.
SERVICE FOOTBALL stalwart Cpl Rachael Howes has a new target to aim for – cancer charity fundraising – after she was diagnosed with the disease earlier this year.
THE NEW-LOOK UKAF rugby league squad featuring 12 RAF stars has been announced for the 2025 season.
Injuries end Inters hopes
IT WAS a men’s and women’s double for the RAF at the UK Armed Forces Bouldering trials at the Project Climbing Centre in Poole.
Shores was the writer behind definitive World War II aerial ‘kills’ book Aces High
THOUSANDS OF military personnel are set to receive retention bonuses to tackle the long-term decline in numbers staying on.
HUNDREDS OF junior personnel at Marham are to be rehoused as work begins on the second of four Single Living Accommodation blocks on the station.
ONCE AGAIN, I would like to wish all the personnel in the RAF a very Merry Christmas.
All eyes are on Nevada