🌎 Global Sitrep: A global presence
Here are some highlights of our soldiers, sailors and airmen and women around the world 👇
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Lebanon
Helping the people of Beirut 🇱🇧
Following the devastating explosion in Lebanon’s capital city, HMS Enterprise along with other British military experts deployed to support the people of Beirut.
Military experts worked with the Lebanese Armed Forces to assess the damage to the port, helping to coordinate delivery of medical equipment and air transport.
HMS Enterprise surveyed the seafloor to assess the damage, along with her crew deploying on the ground to set up temporary field kitchens and tents. The RAF was also on hand to deliver supplies, including cold storage for storing medical supplies.
Op TORAL
Afghanistan — 5,000th cadet trained🇦🇫
Dubbed ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’, the UK Armed Forces deployed in Afghanistan provides training and advisory roles within the Afghan National Army Officers’ Academy (ANAOA) and Infantry Branch School, among other Afghan institutions.
This training is integral to producing the country’s next military leaders and sees female and male officer cadets training side by side together.
This year marks the 5,000th cadet to pass-through ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’, which is an incredible testament to the impact our men and women are having in Afghanistan.
“ANAOA delivers fantastic combat leaders. They are the future and will grow and become increasingly influential in time as they promote through the Afghan National Army.”
— Brigadier Jonathan Timmis, Cheif Mentor, ANAOA
Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1)
Maritime exercise in the North Sea 🌊
HMS Mersey has recently joined one of NATO’s high readiness maritime task forces, where she will work to provide security in the North Sea and the Atlantic.
The group is known as Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1), and is made up of vessels from across the allied nations. Together they help provide NATO with maritime security on operations.
Her debut involved training with warships from Portugal and Canada in the North Sea.
Protecting UK waters against Russian warship
North Sea 🌊
The Royal Air Force has once again intercepted Russian activity but is a first for the RAF’s new P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
The sub-hunting aircraft completed its first operational mission, shadowing a Russian warship in the North Sea near UK waters.
As the Poseidon aircraft kept watch over the Russian vessel, Vasily Bykov, it was supported by Typhoon Fighter jets and the Voyager refuelling aircraft.
Cleaning up beaches
Curaçao 🇨🇼
During a routine deployment to the Caribbean, the crew of RFA Argus began a cleanup operation on the beaches in Curaçao to clear waste strewn across Turtle habitats.
They removed as much waste as possible, especially any large nets or items that can trap turtles. With the help of the Curaçao Turtle Sanctuary, the team were also shown how to identify and sort plastic waste that can be recycled.
