Talks Continuing Over Allowing Women To Join Gurkhas
It comes as 340 new Gurkha trainees were recruited after an adapted selection process due to COVID-19.
Hannah King has been with BFBS over a decade. Starting as our North of England correspondent chasing new Gurkhas across training areas, she now specialises in features, with a particular interest in health and medicine. She’s deployed all over the world, from South Sudan and Somalia to New Zealand and the Falkland Islands. When she’s not out filming for us she can usually be found racing dragon boats and eating cake (not at the same time).
It comes as 340 new Gurkha trainees were recruited after an adapted selection process due to COVID-19.
Service personnel have administered the final coronavirus tests and local authorities are now in charge of the programme.
Steve Craddock, a former Royal Engineer, has devoted 12 years of life to raising money for service personnel and veterans.
The centre, known by some as 'Glasshouse' or 'Colly', puts the emphasis on correction and has a low reoffending rate of 10%.
The best stem cell donors are often young, fit males - a demographic similar to much of the military community.
Exercise YorkNite 2020 is providing Swiss pilots with half the night-flying hours required for an entire year's training.
Alma Company 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment will head out to Germany in the New Year to play adversary for the Mercians.
The soldiers are now back in North Yorkshire after a deployment to Kabul amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Adaptations are being made to the selection process, with uncertainty over whether the iconic doko race will go ahead.
The unit is on Exercise Cypher Spear in Otterburn in preparation for its deployment to Estonia next year.
It means for the first time, all three of The Yorkshire Regiment's battalions are in Yorkshire.
The founder of Trafford Veterans said despite the generosity of local communities, more support is needed.
The soldiers spent three weeks training on Otterburn ranges ahead of a multinational exercise in Kenya.
It is the first time the Army Championships have been held at the school in more than 20 years.
The service is putting increasing focus on developing the minds of troops, as well as physical training.
The recruits volunteered for the 'wet gap crossing' during training in Otterburn, Northumbria.