Battlefield Study participants examining Longues-sur-Mer Battery. (Crown Copyright MOD 2024) I recently had the honour of taking part in a DIO battlefield study in Normandy, focused on the monumental events...
...been increasing in recent years, according to the STEM Women Whitepaper 2024, there is still a low representation of women in STEM within Higher Education that then impacts the workforce...
...population of 30,000. It enjoys a strategic location at the western entrance to the Mediterranean, where the straits between Europe and Africa are only 14 km wide. Today marks the...
...help training troops practise techniques to attack and breach the German defences across Western Europe. The original Atlantic Wall was a series of armouries, bunkers and both natural and man-made...
...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...
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...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...
Volunteers from Operation Nightingale have uncovered secrets from a former US military site. MOD Crown Copyright 2024. Defence Infrastructure Senior Archaeologist Richard Osgood led an Op Nightingale Dig at a...
...in December 2024. In 2020, I was made the Lead Project Manager for the Soldiers’ Centre at Pirbright. The new build project which was officially handed over in January 2025...
...academic research by Professor Simon Denny of the University of Northampton, whose reports in 2021, 2023 and 2024 validate the positive impact of cadet participation. Colonel Rob Guest, Colonel Cadets...
...the Western Front during the First World War. Remarkably, these practice trenches still survive in the woodland and are in pretty good condition. With the help of the City of...