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A new website focussing on the Armed Forces Covenant website has been launched.
It's aiming to help service personnel and all other people who benefit from the covenant to find the information they need in plain English and online.
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Serving personnel, service leavers, veterans and their families will all be able to access support from the Armed Forces Covenant via the new website. Read more.
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Denice is an instant hit in the Army Reserve
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Life has moved at lightning speed for 25-year-old schoolteacher Denice Webb, of Bournemouth, since she joined the Army Reserve by signing on with Dorchester-based C Company, 6 RIFLES.
Two days after the Tuesday parade night when she was attested – the formal Army legal process under which she became Private Webb – Denice received a telephone call from her unit, who knew about her prowess in martial arts.
Just 48 hours after that, she reported ready for action at the Army Martial Arts Association Championships, where the very newest of new recruits met with immediate success – a middleweight silver medal in the Brazilian jiu-jitsu event.
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Denice, originally from Coventry, moved to Bournemouth 18 months ago to teach at Somerford Primary School, Christchurch. Read more.
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Dorset information security firm signs up to Armed Forces Covenant
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A Dorset company, specialising in ICT system engineering, professional technical services and cyber security, has marked ten years in business by signing the Armed Forces Covenant.
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Lieutenant General Nick Pope welcomed Matt Horan, Security Director of C3IA Solutions Ltd, to Army Headquarters at Andover for a joint signing of the Covenant.
The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise from the nation that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. The programme is promoted and delivered in the South West by Wessex RFCA. Read more.
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George is flying high as a Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset's Cadet
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George Timms has enjoyed many highlights since joining 2182 (Dorchester) Squadron of the Air Training Corps five years ago.
They have included flying on a new RAF Voyager transport aircraft as part of the Queen’s birthday flypast at the Trooping of the Colour in 2013.
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Now he is one of the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset’s Cadets, assisting Her Majesty’s representative in the county, Angus Campbell, on official engagements.
Most recently, George was ‘on duty’ when the Lord-Lieutenant welcomed HRH the Princess Royal to Dorset. Read more.
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Leila hits the high notes with Army Reserve band
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Of the thousands of men and women who serve in the Army Reserve, 24-year-old Leila Jones, a law graduate from Paignton, is proud to claim a unique distinction – as the only person recruited solely for her talent as a singer.
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Musician Jones parades with HQ Company, 6 Rifles, at Wyvern Barracks, Exeter, which is also the base for The Rifles’ Salamanca Band and Bugles.
While she’s happy to help out the instrumentalists by playing the cymbals occasionally, her specialist role is up front, performing at ceremonial engagements or singing her favourite soul at less formal occasions. Read more. To see and hear Leila in action, click her photograph above.
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Somerset Armed Forces Covenant
Update March 2016
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Welcome to the Somerset Armed Forces Covenant update. The Covenant is not just about grants; it is also and perhaps more importantly about the integration of our Armed Forces into our communities, reaching out to those that may need help.
The aim is to increase awareness within the wide range of services that may come into contact with armed forces personnel, young and old, serving and retired and their families from education to housing,
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hospitals to employers, adult and children social care to parishes and voluntary organisations. Read more:
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Falmouth sea cadet celebrates achieving the advanced seamanship qualification
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Sea Cadet Harry Avard, from Falmouth, has become one of only 16 cadets out of 14,000 nationally, to achieve the challenging Advanced Seamanship qualification this year.
Harry’s achievement is part of a new national partnership with Carnival and Sea Cadets. Carnival Corporation, parent company of P&O Cruises and Cunard, is supporting the sea cadets' seamanship qualification which enables cadets aged 10 to 18 to broaden their career options in the maritime industry.
The qualification tests cadets on their knowledge of rope work, rigging, splicing and whipping, canvas work and
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decorative rope work. Practical tests include working in a team to rig equipment such as sheer legs, gyns and derricks. Read more.
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Heroic actions of Devon Army Reservist help with rescue of drowning pensioner
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Army reservist and Asda worker Terry Wotton didn't hesitate when he was told that a man had jumped into a freezing South Devon river. Though he was just walking into town with his wife and five-year-old son, Terry clambered down into the icy water when he saw the man in his 60 lying with his head in the water.
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The man suffered potentially critical injuries and was being treated in Torbay Hospital after the incident. Read more.
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The Sea Cadets April newsletter is now available. For news about the Sea Cadets throughout the country click here.
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