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April 2025

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Army Photographic Competition 2025

This year’s contest didn’t disappoint – here are the winning shots from hundreds of entries

Bulford court centre, brick building with trees in front

Court martial results go public

Disgraced troops who are stripped of their careers after being convicted at court martial will be named online and in this magazine from now on.

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Sergeant Major swap

The Service’s new senior soldier brings an airborne flavour to the role and says he is relishing the prospect of representing troops at the top.

JPA offline for 2 weeks

Lung buster

Global SITREP

Baptism of fire

Germany

A stern initiation test awaited future British officers in Bavaria as cadets from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst completed their final drills.

Mercians bed in

Estonia

Soldiers from the 1 Mercian Battlegroup are settling into their stint on Operation Cabrit.

Powder pros

Japan

The remote peaks of Hokkaido’s Tokachi Volcanic Group formed the backdrop to the ski touring exped of a lifetime for 14 personnel from Army HQ.

Proud moment

Cyprus

British peacekeepers marked the end of a six-month Tosca mission in style as they were presented with their UN campaign medals by senior officers.

Female soldier climbing up blue ropes

Army boss lays bare the challenge of stamping out misogyny and training recruits who arrive at camp already holding negative views of women

Leaders must play their part in expelling those guilty of sexual misconduct from the Service, the chief of the general staff has told MPs.

Princess Power

The Princess of Wales brought smiles to the faces of personnel when she visited the Irish Guards in Wellington Barracks, London, for St Patrick’s Day.

Abortion findings will help create change

Around a third of Servicewomen have chosen to end a pregnancy, according to the first study of abortion in the UK Forces.

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Bowel Cancer - know the signs

Soldiers are being urged to check their downstairs region amid warnings from health professionals that bowel cancer cases may be increasing in younger people.

The next generation of RSMs are being trained to a different standard in 2025

Role models - could they help stamp out unacceptable behaviour?

Service kids support

The truth on pregnancy

As leaders exchange frank views, NATO exercises in the frozen east — on the border of a hot war zone

A training package took place in a frosty political climate amid diplomacy to resolve differences between Europe and the US over the path to peace in Ukraine.

Dan Cope Brecon running

Dan's the man

Military discipline boss WO1 Dan Cope (WG) has been pounding out the miles in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund – taking on the Brecon to Cardiff ultramarathon.

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