16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team
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16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team is @BritishArmy's🇬🇧 #GlobalResponseForce, trained and equipped to deploy by parachute🪂, helicopter🚁 and airlanding🛬.
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Paratroopers past, present and - possibly - future came together to celebrate TheParachuteRegiment's family spirit. Red Devils🪂 jumped in to a families day at Merville Barracks as troops look to a summer break: but even when on leave, they are ready to respond to global crises...
👏British Army 🇬🇧 is No.1 apprenticeship employer! 3 PARA chef Private Edlon Camille is on a Level 2 Production Chef #apprenticeship. 🗣️“I trained as a chef, I’m learning on the job about cooking in the field, and my apprenticeship is teaching me to be a professional caterer."
From food to music, the Nepali culture of QG SIGNALS Gurkhas in the ranks of 216 (Parachute) SIgnal Squadron was celebrated. In true #airborne style, fitness was a focus as troops ran a 2km race carrying a 15kg doko as a taster of a key test in the arduous Gurkha selection.
Great work by the Reservists of 4th Bn TheParachuteRegiment on United Nations #peacekeeping duty in Cyprus
Great work by our The Royal Irish Regiment Rangers☘️ - passing on their skills so that Defense of Ukraine soldiers can #ClearTheWay! 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini #StandWithUkraine
🪂(🇬🇧+🇺🇸)=💪 Wishing a happy National Airborne Day to our US paratrooper colleagues in XVIII Airborne Corps & Fort Liberty, All American Division, 11th Airborne and 173rdAirborneBrigade! The day marks the first US Army parachute jump on 16 Aug 1940: today, as then, we stand ready to jump into action together.
Airborne cavalry: able to deploy by air🛬 or road🚘, 1st Bn The Royal Irish Regiment boosted the Brigade's mobility🛞, firepower💥 and reconnaissance🔭 capabilities as its Light Recce Strike role was further developed on #SteadfastDefender24 in Estonia.
🪂🤿Airborne underwater: construction, demolition, survey, recovery and search are the #engineering capabilities that 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment #diving team provides underwater. Seen here surveying the port facilities at Padilski, Estonia during #SteadfastDefender24.
As British Army 🇬🇧 works towards flying FPV drones on one-way missions to find and strike the enemy, #airborne soldiers’ skills as pilots were put to the test. Read more: army.mod.uk/news-and-event…