In Pictures

Picture 1: HMS Tireless's crew take the air after the submarine surfaced through the Arctic ice [Picture: PO (Phot) Terry Seward]

Picture 2: The explosion that destroyed the Al Jameat Police Station in Basrah on Christmas Day 2006 [Picture: Cpl Russ Nolan RLC]

Picture 3: Sappers take a welcome lunch break whilst shading from the sun at the hottest time of the day [Sergeant Will Craig]

Picture 4: RAF Search and Rescue winchman, Flight Sergeant Chris Scurr, winches a terrier dog onboard his RAF Sea King search and rescue helicopter from a house in Gloucester [Picture: RAF]

Picture 5: Getting through: mail arrives at Lashkar Gah camp aboard a Chinook helicopter [Picture: Cpl Jon Bevan]

Picture 6: Soldiers from 10 Division the Iraqi Army on parade as Maysaan Province is transferred to Provincial Iraqi Control [Picture: Cpl Andy Benson, RAF]

Picture 7: Surgeon Lieutenant Bryony Southorn is one of a team of dentists seeing up to 200 people a day [Picture: Cpl Russ Nolan RLC]

Picture 8: Some shelves, at the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency, LLangennech, reached by lifts, are nearly 40 feet (12 metres) above the ground [Picture: Allan House]

Picture 9: Captain Mackenzie Green, Officer Commanding 10 Troop, sends a situation report during the initial breech (entry) into enemy compounds during Operation VOLCANO, Afghanistan [Picture: LA (Phot) Gaz Faulkner]

Picture 10: Children in the Falkland Islands watching the firework display that marked the 25th anniversary of the conflict [Picture: Harland Quarrington]

Picture 11: British troops return to the Contingency Operating Base following the handover of Basra Palace to the Iraqi palace protection force [Picture: Cpl Follows]

Picture 12: Yeoman Warder Moira Cameron [Picture: Max Coope, newsteam.co.uk]

Picture 13: Multi-National troops take part in Operation SILICON, the ISAF mission launched on Monday 30 April to remove the Taliban from the southern province of Helmand [Picture: Corporal Adrian Harlen RLC]

Picture 14: HMS Endurance surveying in the Erebus and Terror Gulf, North Eastern Antarctic Peninsular [Picture: LA (Phot) Kelly Whybrow]

Picture 15: The four Household Cavalry Members show their Gallantry Awards [Picture: POA (Phot) Flo Foord]

Picture 16: An Apache flies to the Taliban stronghold with Marines strapped to the side 'wings' [Picture: MOD]

Picture 17: Astute under construction at BAE Systems [Picture: BAE Systems]

Picture 18: An RAF Typhoon from Number XI Squadron shadowing a Russian Bear-H aircraft over the North Atlantic Ocean on 17 August 2007 [Picture: RAF]

Picture 19: Signs belonging to units that have served in Bessbrook Mill have now been removed for storage [Picture: MOD]

Picture 20: The barrel of Private Hale's General Purpose Machine Gun smokes from the heat created by the thousand rounds he has just fired [Picture: Cpl Jon Bevan RLC]

Picture 21: HRH Prince Harry conducts a practice dive in the diving training tank [Picture: LA (Phot) Emz Tucker]

Picture 22: Royal Marine Commandos from 11 Troop, M Company, 42 Commando conduct room clearance of Taliban insurgents through the compounds of the village of Barikju during Operation VOLCANO [Picture: PO (Phot) Sean Clee]

Picture 23: Two recruits, born of the same dame Izzy, but a different sire Sioux Warrior who won Best of Breed at Crufts in 2006, will be trained to the highest police dog standards [Picture: Paul Kemp]

Picture 24: Dannielle Beardshaw, aged 12, greets her father Lance Sergeant Chris Beardshaw with her hand-made banner [Picture: Cpl Russ Nolan RLC]
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