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Category: Exercises

Exercise Pashtun Dawn 17 took place between the 14th August and 3rd of September 2012 on Salisbury Plain.
The pre-deployment ex was to prepare 4th Mechanized Brigade for their deployment 'HERRICK 17' in October 2012 to replace 12th Mechanized Brigade on a six-month tour as the lead formation of Task Force Helmand.

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Category: Exercises

In September 1960, the Junior Leaders Regiment - Royal Corps of Signals came up with the Ten Tors challenge for 200 youngsters and used it as a logistics exercise.
1986 saw the event handed over to 43 (Wessex) Brigade, the regional HQ for the Territorial Army in the Southwest.

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Category: Exercises

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The Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF) was set up to provide a primary reinforcement capability to compliment the full time personnel in the RAF.
The RAuxAF, or RAF Reserves, consist of volunteers who give up 27 days of their year to their squadron.

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Category: Exercises

Exercise Pashtun Dawn was 20 Armoured Brigade's FTXs (Final Training Exercises) on Salisbury Plain which ran from 24th July until 21st August 2011. Pashtun Dawn was supported by an exercise running simultaneously called Pashtun Jaguar which was run by JHC (Joint Helicopter Command). Rick Ingham Photography followed the exercise from start to finish...

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Category: Aircraft In Focus

Belize is the most northern country of Central America, neighbouring Mexico and Guatemala. Guatemala has claimed the territory of Belize is theirs but is now currently an independent Commonwealth Realm which recognises Queen Elizabeth II as its Head of State. The British forces have been in Belize to prevent a Guatemala invasion for many years and led to establishing a Garrison and bringing in a flight of Harriers in the event Belize was invaded.

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Category: Aircraft In Focus

The Royal Air Force placed an order for 15 Boeing Chinook CH-47B helicopters in March 1967, which was later cancelled in a defence spending review in November 1967.
In 1978 a new requirement to replace the Westland Wessex resulted in a new order of 30 Chinook CH47C helicopters which entered service at RAF Odiham in December 1980 at over $200,000,000.

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Category: Aircraft In Focus

The 11th March 2011 saw the Royal Navy retire the Jetstream T.2 from service. An aircraft that well and truly earnt it's retirement with 38 years service under it's belt. Rick Ingham Photography sent two days at RNAS Culdrose to say goodbye.

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Category: Aircraft In Focus

The Royal Air Force’s Boeing Chinook helicopters have been used in every conflict since they entered service in 1981 including Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, the Gulf War and the Falklands. It’s no surprise then that the fleet are starting to show signs of age.

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Category: Exercises

 Pashtun Dagger (named after the Royal Marine's Dagger symbol) provided several scenarios that the 6000 soldiers might come across in Afghanistan during their imminent deployment. This includes searching for IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices), using Close Air Support (CAS), securing an aircraft crash site and dealing with casualties.

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Category: Aircraft In Focus

On the 19th October 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron revealed the SDR (Strategic Defence Review) and announced the decision to retire the Harrier due to spending cuts. 44 Years after the Harrier's first flight, on the 15th December 2010. 16 aircraft flew a diamond formation over local airfields before returning to RAF Cottesmore in Rutland for the final time. Rick Ingham Photography takes a look back on the jet's service and it's last moments of service.

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Category: Aircraft In Focus

The Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire has contained many secrets over it's thousands of years. The mysterious Stonehenge and even the Big Cats of Edington. But if someone said that a Russian helicopter, flown by Afghan crew and tutored by a New Zealand pilot was calling Salisbury Plain home, you would be right to laugh. I spent 2009/2010 documenting the two elusive aircraft and finding out exactly what they were up to...

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