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Nov 9, 2024 | 
forcesnews.com | Alex Walters
Just over a month ago two Armed Forces veterans with below-knee amputations set off to Bhutan to take on the world's toughest trek. After 28 challenging days and one of the team, unfortunately, having to pull out, former British Army captainRich Potter completed the trek and arrived back in England to the warm embrace of his family.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
forcesnews.com | Alex Walters
The Duchess of Gloucester has attended the official opening of the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey, representing the Queen, who is currently unwell with a chest infection. Standing in, the Duchess laid the Queen's personal Cross of Remembrance alongside the hundreds of veterans who travelled from across the country to plant a poppy.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
forcesnews.com | Alex Walters
The battlefield is changing, and to ensure the Army is combat-ready thousands of troops and hundreds of vehicles have been deployed to Germany to take part in Exercise Cerberus 2024. The aim of this year's iteration of the biennial exercise is to ensure the Army's warfighting armoured division – 3 Div – is ready for anything an enemy can throw at it. This includes drone warfare, which has come to define the war in Ukraine and elsewhere.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
forcesnews.com | Alex Walters |Laura Skitt |Briohny Williams |Claire Sadler
Prince William's words of support for military families and veterans bereaved by suicideHe penned a foreword for a series of guides for military veterans and their loved ones, saying: 'Please know that you are not alone'.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
forcesnews.com | Alex Walters
An Armed Forces veteran has battled through the "hardest thing he's ever done" and achieved a world first completing Bhutan's Full Snowman Trek – contouring one of the most challenging terrains. Former British Army CaptainRich Potter, who has a below-knee amputation, became the first amputee to complete the 310-kilometre trek across the rugged and unforgiving terrain of the Himalayas.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
forces.net | Alex Walters
"Foot after foot after foot" is the motto for two Armed Forces veterans, living with below-knee amputations one week into their attempt to conquer the Full Snowman Trek in Bhutan. Thanks to the satellite phone of their local guide Ugyel, RAF Corporal Rich 'Dickie' Davies could tell BFBS Forces News how "monumental" their Day 7 of the challenge dubbed 'most difficult trek in the world' went and how the pair were now a day ahead of schedule.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
forcesnews.com | Alex Walters
31 days of wild camping, altitudes of around 5,900m and temperatures as low as -25°C now face two Armed Forces veterans, living with below-knee amputations. Former British Army CaptainRich Potter and RAF Corporal Rich Davies have credited the military for their resilience as they begin their attempt to conquer the Full Snowman Trek in Bhutan – dubbed the most difficult trek in the world.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
forces.net | Alex Walters
Two Armed Forces veterans, living with below knee amputations, are ready to reset the limits of what's possible for amputees. Former British Army CaptainRich Potter and RAF Corporal Rich Davies are all geared up and prepared to conquer the Full Snowman Trek in Bhutan – dubbed the most difficult trek in the world.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
forces.net | Alex Walters
Chief of the General Staff General Sir Roly Walker was the first out of the A400M's door leading the UK's participation in a special parachute jump into the Netherlands. Hundreds of Nato military personnel parachuted into Ginkel Heath to commemorate the 80th anniversary of The Battle of Arnhem, known as Operation Market Garden. The CGS said he was "very honoured and humbled" to make the jump.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
forcesnews.com | Alex Walters
The LGBTQ+ Defence Awards are back for 2024 and the finalists have been revealed. After a successful launch last year, the awards continue to showcase the achievements, success and innovation of LGBTQ+ professionals across the entire aerospace, defence and security industry. This unique awards programme was formed following the then Prime Minister's formal state apology to the LGBTQ+ community for the so-called "gay ban" in the Armed Forces which ended in 2000.
