'Like Being Back In Platoon': Army's Lewis Bean Discusses Life In Professional Rugby
The Glasgow Warriors player talked about juggling military life and professional sport.
The Glasgow Warriors player talked about juggling military life and professional sport.
Flight Sergeant Dyfan Pierce was speaking after his first game in charge of the UK Armed Forces men's football team.
"If there was a competition for the military in the 21st century, this is it," one of the contest's organisers said.
Petty Officer Wesley McGuinness is the first military member to compete at an IPF World Championship.
The match on 29 September will be the team's fifth since 2015, and the players are looking for their first win.
A 55-3 loss to the Cornish Pirates in Penzance was the Royal Navy's first match since the COVID-19 pandemic.
A defeat against a talented Hampshire team for the Army ahead of the Inter Services.
Afghanistan veteran Jaco van Gass won two gold medals, a bronze, and broke three world records during his two weeks in Tokyo.
The two winners were out of 670 male and female soldiers who took part in the British Army Warrior Fitness competition.
The League v Union battle returns on Sunday 12 September on the BFBS Sports Show YouTube channel.
Paige Bellerby won two rounds of the UK Supernational Rallycross Championship.
Two big RAF v Army matches have been announced after the Navy withdrew from the competition.
They lost the first ever Super League southern area final 30-26 to the Cardiff Demons.
The historic win is Great Britain's first Paralympic medal in wheelchair rugby.
The Army veteran beat his sixth place performance in Rio and fourth place at two Commonwealth Games.
It was a third medal, and second gold, in three days – marking an exceptional Paralympics debut for the former Paratrooper.