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IN CHARGE We Meet Philip Hammond As He Becomes the New Defence Secretary Combatbarbie NANAVIGATORVIGATOR BASTION MOT: KEEPING ThE wheelS Turning IN hElMAND DefenceFocus Royal Navy | Army | Royal Air Force | Ministry of Defence | issue #257 NOVEMBER/11 IN ChArGE We meet Philip Hammond as he becomes the new Defence secretary combatbarbie NANAVIGATORVIGATOR FINE TUNING: how CIVILIANS keep vehicles BATTLE worThy IN hELMAND p8 p18 Camera, aCtIon Regulars Army and RAF photo competitions p5 In memorIam p22 sIng oUt Tributes to the fallen Gareth Malone on his military wives choir p16 verbatIm p24 ross kemp Head of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary TV presenter returns to Afghanistan p26 my medals p31 CHrIstmas gIveaway WO2 James Palmer looks back Win a selection of HM Armed Forces toys p30 pUZZLES p24 Crossword, chess and sudoku Exclusives p10 Hammond at tHe Helm We talk to the new Defence Secretary p13 prIde of brItaIn Acting Sergeant Pun wins award p22 p14 a MOTHER’s TOUCH p31 Maternal healthcare in Helmand NOVEMBER 2011 | ISSUE 257 | 3 EDITOR’SNOTE DANNY CHAPMAN involvement in the liberation of Libya, DefenceFocus delivered by Chief of Joint Operations, I feel like I often comment, “what a month” Air Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, at a press For everyone in defence on this page. But for this edition I need a few briefing on 27 October. Published by the Ministry of Defence more exclamation marks. Not only have we Much more convenient for our Level 1 Zone C seen the fall of Gaddafi but a new Secretary magazine production deadlines was the MOD, Main Building of State for Defence has, suddenly, arrived. timing of the arrival of the new Secretary of Whitehall London SW1A 2HB I’m writing this on the day we go to print State for Defence, Philip Hammond. So he’s General enquiries: 020 721 8 1320 (as per usual), just hours before an expected made me happy already (I’ll gloss over the announcement from Nato that operations in fact that changes at the top kept my out-of- EDITOR: Danny Chapman Tel: 020 7218 3949 Libya are to end next week. 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Document Services Ltd on 100 per cent on Twitter. www.ukforcesafghanistan.wordpress.com recycled paper 4 | WWW.MOD.Uk/DEFENCEINTERNET/DEFENCENEWS | NOVEMBER 2011 inmEmoriam DEATHS ON OPERATIONS - 26 September to 26 october 2011 Rifleman Vijay Rai The Royal Gurkha Rifles in Brunei after completing basic training in Catterick in Rifleman Vijay Rai, from A (Amboor) September 2009. Company, 2nd Battalion The Royal Rifleman Vijay Rai soon established Gurkha Rifles, was killed in Afghanistan himself as a leading light within 2 Platoon, on Saturday 15 October 2011. A (Amboor) Company and it quickly Rifleman Vijay Rai was killed by a became apparent that this was a young gunshot wound when the checkpoint man who epitomised the very finest that he and his team were protecting qualities of a Gurkha Rifleman. Nowhere alongside the Afghan Uniform Police was this more apparent than on the sports in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand field where his endearing personality province came under insurgent small came to the fore. He was always at the arms fire. heart of any social gathering or function, Aged 21, from the Bhojpur District, strumming his guitar or treating everyone Deaurali, in the East of Nepal , Rifleman to his latest rendition of a Nepali folksong. Vijay Rai enlisted into the British Army on The youngest of five, he leaves behind 21 December 2008, joining 2nd Battalion his family who are very proud of him. HumbleD by tHe sAcrifice BrigADier eD DAvis, CoMMANDer of 3 CoMMANDo BrigADe, PAYs triBute to tHe trooPs of HerriCk 14 AT A London press briefing, following them that the opportunity for a better life were now supportive. The suppression his Brigade’s return from a six month was through a different route to becoming of the summer fighting season was a key deployment to Afghanistan, Brigadier an insurgent.” factor in this change of mindset. Ed Davis paid tribute to the Service From the start of the tour 3 Commando “We moved away from the personnel who have served as part of Brigade’s approach was to build on the psychosis of what you can and can’t do HERRICK 14 (April -October) saying: “It previous Task Force Helmand concept of during a summer fighting season; you has been humbling to see the sacrifice Shape, Clear, Hold and Build operations, to can do a lot more than just fight... you and the professionalism of our people. what was going to be needed for the future can progress the campaign,” said the Their humanity and their desire to reach – the transition of authority to the Afghan Brigadier. out to the people of Helmand and their National Security Forces (ANSF) and the In comparison to previous years, insatiable desire to make a difference national government. across their area of operations the has been inspiring.” “And that’s exactly how it played out,” Brigade experienced a 45 per cent Brigadier Davis talked of the said Brigadier Davis. “The tipping point was reduction in insurgent attacks against campaign in Helmand province as being 20 July when we handed over lead security ISAF and ANSF forces, a reduction of 86 very much on track thanks to the efforts authority for metropolitan Lashkar Gah to attacks a week. made during 3 Commando Brigade’s the ANSF. That really lit the touch paper “There were some spikes in tour and the hard work and sacrifice for Afghan appetite and confidence to seize activity, but that was as a direct result of ISAF and Afghan troops on previous back their sovereignty. of us taking the fight to the opposition deployments. ”As the tour progressed, the measure which completely unhinged them,” said “Increasingly the progress is of success switched from looking at how Brigadier Davis. Afghan-led. The Afghans have developed well the battle group reacted to being At the end of their tour, 3 an appetite to seize back sovereignty attacked, to looking at how successful they Commando Brigade leave behind a from the insurgent,” he said. were in connecting with the people through protected community about a third Putting local people first was one shuras. We also shifted from partnering of the size of Dorset, with 450,000 of the principles that guided the work the ANSF with us in the lead to enabling and inhabitants, which is around 65 per cent done by the Brigade over their tour, said mentoring them with them in the lead.” of the area identified as the target for Brigadier Davis.
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