This post is combined from a variety of articles, posts and news articles so not my original work, but, all together, they deserve a much wider audience than just in Gibraltar. In sweltering tropical conditions members of the Gambian Armed Forces are being trained for a peacekeeping deployment to Darfur […]

In these days of Political Correctness this story from Japan gives me a strange sense of hope. Whether he is right or wrong (and I don’t know much about Japan) we should all be pleased that someone in his elected position felt free to say something like this out loud. […]

I’m specifically avoiding a “It’s This Long” comment based on the photograph because Lord Ashcroft (who is the world’s biggest collector of VC’s. That’s slightly due to our current government’s contempt for our armed forces which force grieving spouses to have to sell them on) has published a book called […]

The time-zone my job has just taken me to and also the out-of hours work I’m doing now means that I’m horribly late blogging about something I care about enormously. James Cleverly posted the picture which I snaffled and there are, I’m delighted to see, tens of thousands of other […]

It’s typical, isn’t it. Jonathan Woss and the bloke we’ve never heard of before are all over the news, while things like this barely get a mention. L/Cpl Matthew Croucher is only one of 20 living recipients of the medal, awarded for acts of extreme heroism. The marine dived onto […]

In 2006 the Malaysian Government introduced a new medal, known as the Pingat Jasa Malaysia for British veterans and others who served in operations in Malaya/Malaysia between August 1957 and August 1966. I’m trying to help a friend (RFM Norman McNeill of the Royal Ulster Rifles) who is technically (*cough*) […]