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Dear Member,
welcome to this March newsletter from Forces Reunited.

 

 

Navy News

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HRH Prince Michael of Kent swaps tales with ITV News presenter at the SSAFA Forces Help stand at Crufts

On Friday 10th March 2006 at 11am, ITV Central News Presenter - Phillippa Tomson and her fabulous Tibetan Terrier “BG” were joined by His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent GCVO at the SSAFA Forces Help stand as their guests.  They shook paws with hero dog Buster as well as Elliott, Skeet and Kevin - Army Veterinary Corps dogs. “BG” rubbed noses with everyone!

SSAFA Forces Help Chairman, Lieutenant General Sir Robin Ross also visited the SSAFA Forces Help stand on Friday 10th March.

SSAFA Forces Help Chief Executive, Major General Andrew Cumming said: "I was surprised but delighted when I learnt that SSAFA Forces Help was the official human charity of Crufts because our work is focused towards people, not dogs!  However, as we support Service personnel working alongside military dogs our paths do cross. We have many new four legged friends from the Royal Army Veterinary Corps including Buster at our stand."

Stand  3 - 50 SSAFA Forces Help

The stall was also supported by the RAF Dog Demonstration Team. Everyday there was an instant win tombola including a star prize, deluxe prizes and lots of doggy prizes and treats. All week they were giving away paw stamped cards for children who visit the stand and met Buster and the other Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dogs.

Buster Information

Buster the Springer Spaniel won the Dicken Award for Gallantry, the highest award for animals aiding British and Commonwealth forces, when he discovered hidden weapons for use against the armed forces in Iraq, April 2003.  The stash he uncovered included weapons explosives and cocaine.  The day after the find explosions and attacks in the village of Safwan stopped.  Buster joined the army in 1999 and after training became an AES Dog, (Arms Explosive Search Dog).  Buster served in both Kosovo and Iraq and last year he won “Hero Dog of the Year” at Crufts.

Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dogs

Elliott – Black Labrador
Skeet – English Springer
Kevin – Chocolate
Labrador

SSAFA Forces Help would like to thank the following companies for their generous prize donations: John Lewis Partnership, K9 igloo designs, Pascoes, Millie & George, Snoozzzeee Dog, Crazee Pets, HMV, Barking Bags and Peugeot Export. A genuine thank you to the Kennel Club for making SSAFA Forces Help their human charity.

 

 

 


 

 

Latest Military News.

The Pingat Jasa  Malaysia  (PJM) Medal
Trailwalker UK 2006
Who is "Commander in Chief’" of UK Forces??

Click Here to read more.

 

 


 

 

Do you know any of these people?

Name ServiceYear
tiny last Army 1978
Nigel Rowlands Army 2006
John Bacon Army 1962
Barry Cross RAF 1957
Lawrence NEIL Jackson Navy 1949
Douglas Lynd Navy 2006
2006
Betty Gray (nee Wilson) RAF 1949
Eric Price Army 2006
craig milbourn Navy 1980

If you recognise any of the names above and are in contact with them, please let them know a friend on Forces Reunited is looking for them.

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Members Websites.

Some of our members have been busy creating websites in our new feature Members Web at http://membersweb.forcesreunited.org.uk, a couple of them are listed below.
 

Rifleman Axtell - Army Days
A.C.C St.Omer Bks - Army Catering Corps St. Omer Barracks 1986-1988


Think you can do better? If you would like to create a website and see it listed here, please Click Here now.

 

 


 

 

Other Forces Reunited Websites

Forces Jobs

Announcing our latest site to join the Forces Reunited community of websites, Forces Reunited Jobs!

If you're looking for a job or looking to promote a job Forces Reunited Jobs is all you need.

With over a quarter of a million ex-forces in our community we have a big draw for jobs and candidates.

Take a look now and see what we can do for you!

http://jobs.forcesreunited.org.uk
 

Forces Reunited's Members Web

Ever wanted to create your own website but didn't know where to start?

Well now you can with the help of Forces Reunited's Members Web.

You don't need to know how to program or have any HTML knowledge, simply give your site a name and a few descriptive details, add some content in a word style editor for the pages and hey presto you have a website on the world wide web!

You can tell the world about yourself, your time in the forces, your pets, your business, whatever you like!

What's more the first month is completely free!

After that it's just £4.99 a month or less if you choose to pay yearly.

What are you waiting for get yourself a site on the World Wide Web Click Here Now!
 

Forces Reunited Dating

Whether you're looking for love or just friendship Forces Reunited Dating has something to offer.

With thousands of members already there's bound to be someone looking for you.

Click Here to join for free now and find that special someone.

 

 

 

 

Full Membership

Don't forget there's many ways you can subscribe to Full Membership.

We accept Credit Cards, Switch/Maestro, Pay-Pal, Cheques, Cash and even foreign cash such as US or AUS Dollars!

Don't leave that holiday money lying around doing nothing when you can use it to pay for your Full Membership of Forces Reunited!

By making a small donation of just £7.50 you will become a Full Member which entitles you to access all the features not available to basic members.

That's just 14 pence a week for a whole year's Full Membership! Get Full Membership Now!

It only takes a minute to become a full member and you'll get all the benefits below :-

  • Video chat rooms - FREE video phone calls!
  • Contact Friends you have found through Forces Reunited.
  • Post messages on the Forums and Bulletin Boards. Find old friends and meet new ones.
  • Use the Forces Reunited Chat Room. Join our growing community of chat room users and get involved in debates every evening.
  • Post memories or memorials in the Memories and Remembrance areas. Leave messages for loved one's or just post your old memories on the site.
  • Add your own questions to the Forces Reunited Inter Services Quiz. See if others can answer your questions correctly.
  • Personnel Records. Full information on how to go about retrieving personnel records.

PLUS LOTS MORE ....

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Friends Recommendations

Would you believe that there are many people out there who STILL don’t know about Forces Reunited?  Perhaps you will be kind enough to let all your friends know about Forces Reunited.  

The site is growing all the time, thanks to members like you.  There is so much more to the site than they can imagine.

As you know, being a member has many advantages.  There are hundreds of new ideas and interesting things happening on the site, some of which you can contribute towards yourself.  You can post a message on the Bulletin Boards, join in on the great discussions in the Forums and even air your ideas or thoughts in the Chat Room.

Recommend us to your friends!   When you next e-mail or text someone, tell them about us!  They’ll be glad you did.

 

 


 

 

Online Shop.

Our online shop not only sells Genuine Army Surplus but also brand new military items such as gloves and boots.

Have a look in our online shop now, you may be surprised at what we do sell!

Don't forget all Basic Members get 2.5% off everything in-store and all Full Members get a whopping 10% off absolutely everything in-store!

What's more, we offer a Price Match Guarantee so that if you can find the same item cheaper elsewhere we'll beat the difference by £1 or 10% (see terms)!

We have lots of cold weather items in-store such as these
Thinsulate - Gloves  just £5.99!

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Can you help promote the site?

Could you spare the time to help spread the word about Forces Reunited, by displaying a poster in your local Legion, Library, NAAFI or pub?

There are quite literally millions of ex-service men and women out there who don’t, as yet, know about us, and would probably like the opportunity to get in touch with their old buddies.

Help them to find their friends by spreading the word where you can.

You can grab our poster in pdf format HERE or Word format HERE.

If you don't have a printer and would like to display some posters, let us know and we'll send some to you.

 

 


 

 

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Once again, we do hope you enjoyed this latest newsletter.

We look forward to writing the next one!

Regards
The Forces Reunited Team
http://www.forcesreunited.org.uk