Managing the Overseas Estate: the importance of local staff
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...62 years of service. Africa Moving to Africa, in Kenya we have 135 LECs, who are responsible for providing a safe place to train for light forces, and elements of...
...62 years of service. Africa Moving to Africa, in Kenya we have 135 LECs, who are responsible for providing a safe place to train for light forces, and elements of...
...as DIO and represents real recognition of the work we’ve been doing on promoting a health and safety culture within the organisation. Varied and challenging When many people think of...
...classed as key workers could work from home. We’ve maximised the use of technology including Skype to promote wellbeing activities such as virtual coffee-catch ups and quizzes. This has helped...
...areas relevant to new starters, such as the Civil Service Code and military equivalent, and DIO’s history and vision. The session was interactive, including presentations, videos, exercises and quizzes, which...
...of the year wearing a suit for a 16 hour plane journey (someone had told me there was a dress code – there isn’t and everyone else was sensibly dressed...
...October 2017 and consider myself very lucky to be on my third overseas posting in a row. I was posted to Kenya as a second tour senior infantry Quartermaster (QM)...
...personnel and their families evacuated from overseas training bases. In total, 132 Service families were re-homed in the UK from Nepal, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and other African countries, as well...
...from serving at the British Army Training Unit Kenya. Early in the pandemic, the team also rose magnificently to the challenge of supporting 150 families repatriated at very short notice...
...FM community. Looking after the training estate in Sennybridge, Wales [Copyright Landmarc Support Services Limited, 2018]We provide hard FM for the Army Training Units in Belize, Canada and Kenya. Unusually...
...stepped in to guard sites to free up police officers for other duties. Responding to bad weather Probably the most common reason for military assistance is in response to adverse...