...they’ve felt excluded, or indeed where they have made a particular effort to include someone. It’s proven to be a great way to raise awareness while bringing us closer together....
![Challenger 2 tank crews training at BATUS. [Crown Copyright/MOD2014]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/05/45158850-1024x420.jpg)
...team, work through how to face fear and operate in challenging situations - all important abilities when they move into live operations. To have experienced a minor part of what...
...winner in the family, so I suspect that her influence shaped how I thought about the male: female role relationship and where my place in this was. I also went...
...enjoy the opportunity to take a break and often dial into the conversation while going for a walk to help get me away from my desk and out in nature...
...in the planning stages where I really get down into the detail. I have to check all traces, all written instructions and make sure that all the plans that are...
![The Ancient Akrotiri Project team excavating one of the Roman buildings at Dreamer's Bay. [Crown Copyright, MOD 2017]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/01/Akrotiri-blog-2.jpg)
...project using archaeological excavation, survey, geo-morphology and marine archaeology to get to grips with how the peninsula has been formed and exploited over several thousands of years. The Ancient Akrotiri...
![A Gurkha trainee, wearing full uniform including helmet and body armour, and carrying his weapon and a bergen, kneels in an area of young, growing trees. A mature wood is in the background. [Crown Copyright/MOD2018]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/IMG_1599cropped-copy-e1544028628324-1024x681.jpg)
...spent a few years in Scotland and elsewhere working as a forestry contractor, before heading to forestry college. I was lucky enough to get a placement working in MOD forestry...
![Jacqui Rock, DIO Commercial Director [Crown Copyright, MOD 2018]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/03/Rock-bio-e1543582792339.jpg)
...to provide existing and potential suppliers with information on how to do business with the MOD, introduce DIO and its commercial vision, and talk about some of the upcoming opportunities...
...a technical building qualification which was needed to get into a technical role and undertook training with a mentor which covered areas from waste water to contaminated land to carbon...
![Reservist Ben Lolley on the upper deck of the Danish warship HDMS Absalon. [Crown Copyright, MOD 2017]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/10/20171027-Lolley_Pic1-1-1024x768.png)
...Forces and to share individual experiences. If you fit either of those categories and would like to know more or get involved then please get in touch at DIO-ReserveForcesAdvocate@mod.uk ...