Watch this video of soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment practising clearing a building as part of the recent Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise with counterparts in the US Army's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. Video: Cpl Andy Reddy, MoD Crown Copyright | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Watch this video of soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment practising clearing a building as part of the recent Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise with counterparts in the US Army's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. Video: Cpl Andy Reddy, MoD Crown Copyright | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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This is the moment the 16 Air Assault Brigade arrived in Afghanistan to help get British nationals and staff back home safely, as part of Operation Pitting. 🎥 Forces News More 👉 https://bit.ly/3yQH3VP | BFBS Radio
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This is the moment the 16 Air Assault Brigade arrived in Afghanistan to help get British nationals and staff back home safely, as part of Operation Pitting. 🎥 Forces News More 👉 https://bit.ly/3yQH3VP | BFBS Radio
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Watch this archive film of troops getting themselves ready for Op MARKET GARDEN, boarding planes and gliders and jumping into action at Arnhem. It was shot by the Army and Film Photographic Unit - the forerunners of today's Army photographers. Copyright: Airborne Assault Museum, Duxford | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Watch this archive film of troops getting themselves ready for Op MARKET GARDEN, boarding planes and gliders and jumping into action at Arnhem. It was shot by the Army and Film Photographic Unit - the forerunners of today's Army photographers. Copyright: Airborne Assault Museum, Duxford | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Taking decisive action - airborne gunners of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery plan and execute the final attack on a leadership cadre, putting into practise what they have learnt. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Taking decisive action - airborne gunners of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery plan and execute the final attack on a leadership cadre, putting into practise what they have learnt. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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From care under fire, through battlefield surgery to casualty evacuation by helicopter, airborne medics of 16 Medical Regiment show off their specialist skills. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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From care under fire, through battlefield surgery to casualty evacuation by helicopter, airborne medics of 16 Medical Regiment show off their specialist skills. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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The soldiers of C (Bruneval) Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment toured the battlefield of Operation BITING, the first successful British airborne operation. The February 1942 operation saw soldiers parachute in to assault a German radar station at Bruneval, near Le Havre. The paratroopers captured radar equipment and technicians, before being picked up by the Royal Navy. The raid enabled radar countermeasures to be developed and was a massive morale boost, showing that Britain could s
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The soldiers of C (Bruneval) Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment toured the battlefield of Operation BITING, the first successful British airborne operation. The February 1942 operation saw soldiers parachute in to assault a German radar station at Bruneval, near Le Havre. The paratroopers captured radar equipment and technicians, before being picked up by the Royal Navy. The raid enabled radar countermeasures to be developed and was a massive morale boost, showing that Britain could s
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Here's some footage of the 2 PARA Battlegroup on Exercise Askari Storm in Kenya! | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Here's some footage of the 2 PARA Battlegroup on Exercise Askari Storm in Kenya! | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Paratroopers have demonstrated the firepower they can bring to bear as part of the British Army’s global response force. Support Company, 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment has fired its full range of weaponry – Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missiles, 81mm Mortars, Grenade Machine Guns and Heavy Machine Guns – on Salisbury Plain. The firing concentration came at the end of six-week long cadres to train paratroopers in the specialist weapons skills needed to serve in the company’s Anti-Tanks, Mort
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Some 3,000 soldiers from eight NATO countries were recently training in North Macedonia under the command of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team on Exercise Swift Response. The 2,000-strong British contingent was made up of the 2 PARA Battlegroup, including artillery, engineers, logisticians, medics, and signallers from 16 Air Assault BCT. Joining them was Aviation Task Force 1 with Apache attack helicopters and Chinook support helicopters from the Royal Air Force. With multiple Army and RAF toge
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Personnel from 16 Air Assault Brigade have been training with American, French, Canadian, Polish, and Belgian paratroopers as part of Exercise Pegasus International. The exercise was part of the preparation for a major airborne exercise, which will take place this summer. | British Army
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C (Bruneval) Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment execute a helicopter raid on Exercise Joint Warrior. Photos: Cpl Georgina Coupe & Cpl Steve Duncombe, MoD Crown Copyright | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Firing into the weekend like... Pathfinders! Troops from the brigade's advance force train at Merville Barracks' state-of-the-art Urban Training Facility, practising how to enter and move through buildings, clearing the enemy as they go. Pathfinders are trained to infiltrate behind enemy lines in small patrols, in vehicles or on foot, to find and relay vital information back to assist mission planning. Their core role is finding drop zones and landing zones where the main body of troops can be p
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🇬🇧🤝🇯🇵 A Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment and the Japan Ground Self Defence Force’s 5th Brigade training together to be ready to defend our shared security on Exercise Vigilant Isles💪 #16airassaultbrigade #paratrooper #airborne #strongertogether #parachuteregiment #japan #jgsdf #vigilantisles #vigilantisles25 #freeandopenindopacific #hokkaido | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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On 5 June 1944, 6th Airborne Division was getting ready to jump into Normandy to spearhead the liberation of Europe. To mark last year's 70th anniversary of D-Day, soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade took part in a commemorative jump onto a DZ near Ranville that was used on D-Day. This video shows a paratrooper's perspective on 5 June 2014 - very different to that of his predecessors 70 years before, who jumped at night and under enemy fire. Video: MoD Crown Copyright | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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From map reading to weapon handling and swimming to first aid, airborne signallers have competed against each other to be the best and earn the title ‘Super Tom’. Colchester-based 216 (Parachute) Signal Squadron held a skills competition yesterday, with some 20 signallers competing for the Corporal Steven Dunn Trophy, named in honour of a soldier from the unit killed in Afghanistan in 2010. In full battle rig, the soldiers navigated their way around an individual circuit taking in stands that te
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17 September 1944: Operation Market Garden was launched, aiming to break into Nazi Germany by a combined airborne and armoured advance and end the war by Christmas 1944. 1st Airborne Division landed by parachute and gliders near Arnhem on 17th September 1944 to capture the final bridge across the Rhine. Anticipating that they would be relieved within 48 hours, the soldiers instead held out through nine days of prolonged and brutal street fighting before withdrawing across the river on 25th Septe
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#militarylife Troops from the UK's 16 Air Assault Brigade have joined inetrnational paratroopers to train and jump together at EXERCISE FALCON LEAP 24. Pictured are UK and German parachutes over Ginkel Heath drop zone, with the poppy canopies of the UK. The exercise serves to increase interoperability between nations through shared jump experiences. The conclusion of the exercise is today's mass drops into Ginkel Heath to commemorate the 80th anniversary of OPERATION MARKET GARDEN #parachute #ar
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Airborne gunners practised finding and striking targets, while keeping mobile to avoid becoming a target themselves. Exercise Sphinx Strike tested F (Sphinx) Parachute Battery 7th Parachute Regiment RHA out on the windswept expanses of Salisbury Plain. Co-ordinated by the battery's Command Post, Fire Support Teams patrolled the ranges and used drones to find targets for 105mm Light Guns to strike. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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🤩 Incredible! 🤩A trio of A400M’s flew 16 Air Assault Brigade personnel as part of a mass paradrop in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord 🪂📍 Sannerville, France | BFBS Radio
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The 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 was marked in Colchester today. Veterans, civic dignitaries, soldiers and members of the public gathered for two services at the War Memorial on High Street to commemorate the bloodiest day in British military history. At 7.30am, troops from the town’s 16 Air Assault Brigade blew whistles to break a national two-minute silence at the exact moment when their First World War predecessors went ‘over the top’ to face German
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Back to work like... soldiers of the 3 PARA Battlegroup on a live fire trench clearance during NATO's Steadfast Defender exercise in Estonia. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Spotlight on... 16 Medical Regiment🧑‍⚕️🚑🏥 From treatment at the point of wounding to lifesaving surgery, our airborne medics are specially trained and equipped to deliver medical care by air. Find out more about their capabilities and watch them being put through their paces on Exercise Winged Serpent, and read about the training at https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/03/airborne-medics-deliver-care-by-air/ | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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The 16 Air Assault Brigade Commander leads from the front going into the ice - ❄️ Ice breaking in the High North is a leveller, it tests mental resilience but importantly develops the necessary survival skills to help troops understand the effects of full cold water submersion and how to deal with it. #readyforanything #theparas #parachuteregiment #2para #16airassaultbrigade | The Parachute Regiment
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Troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade meet members of the public at Liverpool Street Station to mark the Royal British Legion's London Poppy Day 2016. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade have taken part in Ex Falcon Leap over the skies of Arnhem alongside members of the Royal Netherlands Army and other NATO partners. Today the exercise featured a mass drop onto Ginkel Heath. On 22 September 19 a memorial service at Oosterbeek Cemetery will to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem and remember those for whom the Netherlands become an eternal resting place. We Will Remember Them. | British Army
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WATCH: An exclusive look at the advance force for 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, the Pathfinders are an elite part of the UK Armed Forces. 👊 Highly trained, can infiltrate behind enemy lines, identify Drop Zones and relay vital information back to HQ. ACCESS here 👉 https://fal.cn/3pXO4 | BFBS Radio
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🗣️“It’s very cramped, the front line is only a few soldiers wide, and you’ve got to be extra switched on…” Join 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment Battlegroup on a live fire mission to clear a 3km trench system during NATO's Steadfast Defender exercise in Estonia🇪🇪 earlier this year. Find out more: https://www.army.mod.uk/news/paratroopers-pack-a-punch-on-swift-response-1/ | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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An air defence unit has taken its first shot at working within the British Army’s rapid reaction force. 12 (Minden) Air Assault Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery has been on Salisbury Plain for Exercise Wessex Storm. The gunners deployed High Velocity Missiles to protect Keevil Airfield, which was home to helicopters flying in support of infantry units training on the ground. Apache attack helicopters, operated by 4 Regiment Army Air Corps, carried out a mock attack on the airfield so the two
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British🇬🇧 and US🇺🇸 paratroopers jump into Estonia🇪🇪 on Exercise Swift Response, testing the ability of NATO airborne forces to respond together to an international crises. | 16 Air Assault Brigade
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