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Pictured: Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks during a Field Army course at the Combined Arms Manoeuvre School (CAMS).

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A soldier from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles (2RGR) watches as a Royal Air Force A400M comes into land at Keevil Airfield to conduct a Rapid Air Landing (RAL) during Exercise Wessex Storm. Exercise Wessex Storm intends to validate 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles to TL FOXTROT in order for them to assume very high readiness for their assumption of Air Manoeuvre Battle Group 1 (AMBG1). 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish are being validated for the Light Recce Strike (LRS) Concept of Employment (CONEMP) as part of the pathway to LRS FOC by 2025. Exercise to provide an opportunity for the British Army to demonstrate its Future Soldier concept

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Whilst soldiers from 1 Regt AAC Conduct their final attack of Exercise URBAN MAPLE using simulated ammunition whilst receiving blank fed fire support from 13 (EW) Regt Royal Signals (pictured), culminating in a Casevac of a Simulated Casualty. Over a 5-day period in November, elements of 1 Regiment Army Air Corps deployed to Caerwent Training Area to take part in Exercise URBAN MAPLE. The goal of the Exercise was to give the Ground Support troops the opportunity to develop new skills in the urban environment, in preparation for the implementation of the Urban Basics ITR. With many of the soldiers never having touched FIBUA before, the training was progressive, with troops starting with the basics and progressing up through dry-drills, blank firing, and then onto building clearances utilising simulation, judgemental targets, and live enemy. With the challenges posed by the urban environment in mind, the Helicopter landing sites used were designed to test both the Groundcrew and Pilots. Utilising confined landing points with limited access and a challenging defensive plan, the Arming Teams successfully occupied, operated, and defended landing sites in both day and night conditions, receiving and refuelling live aircraft in locations normally out of limits for aviation. The final phase of the Exercise was a culmination of the skills acquired throughout the week. With a platoon level attack on a final objective, the soldiers of 659 and 661 Sqns combined to receive a set of orders and clear a multi-story building with further positions in depth. The signallers among the sections were tested in their use of CCA cards and 9-Liners, utilising aviation to suppress enemy positions and extract casualties.

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