We are so back...

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#WinTheMindWinTheDay
#WeAreEverywhere
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Another meeting and another memorial this time The Royal Marines memorial on the Mall by Admiralty Arch

This picture was taken by Captain Evans of the Army Film and Photographic Unit from the deck of LCI(S) 519 as they approached Sword Queen Red beach. The time is 0840 and the landing craft is about to touch down on schedule.

Keeping my reps honest. 😅🥂

Ellie Kildunne (9) scored more tries in this Six Nations than Wales (7) or Scotland (8).

Great game Twickenham Stadium for #bigsummerkickoff . 🃏 🥂

#COYQ #HARvNOR

Very interesting two weeks at Defence Academy on the Defence #HumanSecurity Advisor Cse. 🥂

For England and St George, arguably the greatest amphibious raid of all time, the Raid on Zeebrugge 23rd April 1918. Mounted by two thousand men of the 4th Battalion Royal Marines and Royal Navy, 8 Victoria Crosses were awarded, including 2 #RoyalMarines

royalmarineshistory.com/post/the-raid-…

Great to see. 🥂

Remembrance is not having to pay to visit a memorial.

Remembrance is not walking along a path to see tap and go card readers asking for money.

Remembrance is not having cheap plastic buckets on the floor next to a memorial asking for money.

Remembrance is not walking around a…

Thoroughly recommend ‘Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets’. Very interesting podcast on Cdr Lionel Crabb. 🥂

Ellie Kildunne World Player of the Year 2024

Just come across Liz Truss saying “I hadn’t gone into politics to deal with floods or fix prisons.” Why not? Wouldn’t politics be much better if she felt her job was to fix such things? This is a fundamental problem with our system ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩ unherd.com/2024/04/why-li…

'Hello... er Lynn, I've been locked up by some bad people, please could you send me £5000 from the party donors fund?'

'I know is 3.15am, but it's a matter of life and death'

Point for debate:

Gaza and Ukraine have shown that information warfare can have potentially decisive strategic effect.

If UK Defence are going to increase spending anywhere, it could be best spent on turning 77 Brigade into 77 Division.

Discuss.

Andrew Fox I would start by creating a J10 staff branch in line with NATO across all Defence. I would then make a new capbadge in line with that staff branch. Then I populate it with young officers transferring in from other branches of the Army (the RN/RAF could do differently) … /1

'The information environment is not distinct from any operational environment.'

(video is actually from Chile, it was just most recently used as disinfo re:Texas)

Aggregate scores this season:
⁃Saracens 90 Harlequins 17
⁃Bordeaux 100 Saracens 27
Obviously Harlequins turn over Bordeaux. Silly sport. Will Porter is magic. Fin Baxter and Will Collier unreal.

Yes! #coyq 🃏

fill your boots Decent housing has to be a basic right for our armed forces