Army

Reserve Battalion Returns From Uganda

Soldiers from 4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment have returned home from Uganda after helping prepare hundreds of African troops for their next assignment in Somalia.
 
Nearly 30 soldiers spent Christmas training almost 1,600 Ugandan troops at a base near the country's capital, Kampala
 
Based in Wolverhampton, they are the Mercian Regiment's Reserve Battalion. 
 
Jessie Aru-Phillips reports.

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