Hoon sparks fury with army regiment shake-up
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The Black Watch army regiment, which lost seven soldiers during a recent mission in Iraq, is to be merged with other units as part of a major military overhaul, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon revealed.
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THE Black Watch today moved towards Baghdad in response to the US plea for help. The Ministry of Defence said today that soldiers from the Scottish regiment were leaving their base in the southern city of
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Britain's military is at the limit of its capacity and can barely cope with the demands placed on it, the head of Britain's army told The Guardian in an interview published in the newspaper's Monday edition.
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An Army unit that had been scheduled to go to Iraq is being sent instead to Afghanistan, where fighting has increased and the U.S. troop level is at its highest of the war.
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Scottish MPs launch a bitter attack on plans to axe one Scottish battalion and merge the other five.
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The British Army marked another shift toward erasing military reminders of Northern Ireland's 30-year conflict on Friday with a parade to mark the disbanding of the Royal Irish Regiment.
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Increasing numbers of soldiers are deciding not to join the Army National Guard after they leave active duty, a trend so troubling that the Guard is hiring 1,400 more recruiters to reverse it.
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Britain has received a request from Washington to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq from their current base in the southern city of Basra into restive US-held areas but is still considering a response, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told parliament.
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UK forces are to undertake an evacuation of British nationals from the west African state of Ivory Coast. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said a company of the Royal Gurkha Regiment is &quot;pre-positioning&quot; in the
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As it exits Basra, the Army deals with disillusionment, inside and out.
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Â· General Dannatt calls for homecoming paradesÂ· Alarm at growing gulf between army and nation
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon will set out details of wide-ranging and controversial changes to the structure of the British Army today.
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under fire over the way his government is handling a US request to redeploy 650 British troops in Iraq.
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The head of Britain&#39;s elite Special Air Services regiment has resigned from his post, British newspapers reported on Tuesday, though it was unclear whether he resigned of his own accord, or if he was forced out.
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Britain&#39;s Defense Secretary Geoffrey Hoon leaves No. 10 Downing Street, London Thursday Oct. 21, 2004 after attending a cabinet meeting where they discussed the deployment of 650 soldiers of the Black Watch to a US-controlled sector in Iraq.
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Bertie Ahern was challenged in the Dil this week by Sinn Fin's Caoimhghn Caolin about the fact that there are more British soldiers in the Six Counties than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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In Iraq, a new strategy pushes soldiers out of large bases and into communities.