Posts Tagged ‘Salisbury Plain Training Area’
Thousands of troops have been involved in one of the largest military training exercises to take place on the Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA): Exercise Wessex Storm. Exercise Wessex Storm takes place multiple times a year and involves approximately 1,500 to 2,000 troops from the army, and sometimes personnel from the ...
Work at Salisbury Plain Training Area has uncovered an Anglo-Saxon burial site during an archaeological dig. The team of military veterans, archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology and the DIO has unearthed a large bone and antler comb and some iron shears, in what they describe as the richest grave uncovered this year. ...
Soldiers at Perham Down are benefitting from a new sports facility including an all-weather pitch, which has been delivered by Aspire Defence for the Ministry of Defence’s Army Basing Programme (ABP). The ABP is a joint army and Defence Infrastructure Organisation programme that is providing the facilities the British Army needs to live, ...
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