The British Army’s Global Response Force (GRF) is being put through its paces with demanding training on Salisbury Plain Training Area, the British Army’s website reports. As the GRF, 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team (16 Air Asslt BCT) demonstrates a more agile, integrated, lethal and expeditionary Army. The Brigade has gained additional artillery, engineer, and logistic sub-units to create a third battlegroup built around its existing Royal Gurkha Rifles battalion; while 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (1 R IRISH) joined as light recce strike infantry.
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| Exercise Wessex Storm, which is taking place in Wiltshire, sees the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles (2 RGR) and 1 R IRISH being challenged to prove their readiness to respond to international crises (Picture source: British Army) |