...place. British soldiers have trained there for over a century and still use it today. Recently, particularly in the cold and wet, serving soldiers helped plant almost 50,000 native trees...
![Soldiers with the Royal Wessex Yeomanry onboard a Challenger 2 main battle tank during a training exercise at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. [Crown Copyright/MOD2013]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/07/45156642-1024x682.jpg)
...acquired in the mid-1930s and training stepped up with the looming clouds of war. A Crusader II tank in the Western Desert, 2 October 1942. [© IWM (E 17616)]During the...
Hello, I’m Richard McCarthy, Chief Executive of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). Today is my first day in this role under DIO’s new strategic business partnering arrangements. Richard McCarthy, DIO...
...II aircraft. Countless individuals in the U.S. and U.K. militaries and governments have worked tirelessly ever since to make this vision a reality, and today we marked a new milestone...
A Mitie engineer at work. [Ed Robinson/OneRedEye] Today is a day many people in DIO have been working towards for several years. It is the start of a new contract...
...to delivering efficient and effective hard facilities management services across the Built Estate, as existing contracts come to an end. That journey continues as, today, new FDIS contracts have been...
...has been sold to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. They took delivery of their first PC-24 in November 2018 in their Western Operations area. They now have three...
...involves working with local communities and partner organisations to promote safe and responsible public access to our training areas. An excellent example of this was our recent support to a...
...largest weapons storage facility in western Europe. It can also handle the high volume of ammunition needed for the surface fleets. We’re refurbishing the jetty as it’s reaching the end...
![Left to right: Alex Sotheran, DIO archaeologist; Sam Fairhead, Wessex Archaeology; Stewart Bowman, veteran participant; Dickie Bennett, Breaking Ground Heritage. [Crown Copyright / MOD 2017]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/09/L-to-R-Alex-Sotheran-DIO-archaeologist-Sam-Fairhead-Wessex-Archaeology-Stewart-Bowman-veteran-participant-Dick-1024x683.jpg)
...where the ground was too wet to dig a full depth trench. Instead of digging a deeper trench as was done in other parts of the Western Front, a shallower...