THE SECRETARY of State for Defence visited Tidworth soldiers on Friday ahead of an upcoming NATO exercise in Eastern Europe.
The Right Honourable Michael Fallon MP, pictured, met The King’s Royal Hussars as they conducted preparations to deploy on Exercise Black Eagle in Poland from late October.
It was an opportunity for the MP to be introduced to vehicles such as the Challenger Two Main Battle Tank and the KRH crews who operate them.
He also met personnel from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh who are also based in Tidworth, and operate with the Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle.
Exercise Black Eagle is a UK and Polish exercise and is a demonstration of the UK’s support and NATO’s Immediate Assurance Measures.
Approximately 1,300 personnel, 100 armoured vehicles and 250 other vehicles will be deployed to Poland as the UK’s biggest armoured deployment in Eastern Europe since 2008.
1 R Welsh, which is providing personnel and vehicles to the exercise, is the leading armoured infantry battalion in the British Army.
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