Plex technology gives me the decisive edge and the new security review of increasing risks we have obviously things like so great we have only going. To tax us through 3 years old and I was primed. To see. We still hold ours. Generals Nick Carter has been appointed chief of the defense. Head of the Army since 2014 and will take over from Chief peach this summer show the Banks joins me now for more on this story what do we know about general called his background generals and the college with 51 years old he was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets in 1978 as a junior officer and he says to Northern Ireland during the troubles in Cyprus with the UN and many during the Cold War in the mid $9980.00 reached the rank of left when it comes to playing to buy both now and Kosovo in 2004 now Brigadier Carter was commanding 20th all made Brigade a role which still him deploy as the commander of British will sit. He will say completed repeated tours of Afghanistan between 222013 in 2009 by now a major general he commanded the 55000 NATO troops in Regional Command South which included Kandahar and Helmand where most British troops were based He put temptresses on avoiding civilian casualties deployed forward to key towns and villages in the halls of the counterinsurgency effort in 2011 as commander of the field he was the main architect of the Army 2020 concept he was permitted to full general in 2014 and made chief of the general staff that year and since then he's been instrumental in trying to mold and eyes the Army recruit people from minority backgrounds and he also has 14000 followers on Twitter what is the defense secretary said about the appointment look Affan Williamson's released a statement saying he's delighted. General conses being an exceptional C.G.S. At a time of rapid change and Prime Minister to resign has said that she's looking forward to working with him General Carter will take up his new paste. Sees the R F is at the forefront of efforts to counter increasing Russian hostility according to the head of the Air Force and Chief Marshall says Stephen Hellyeah was speaking at the Royal Aeronautical Society ahead of the centenary of the R F This Sunday Bonnie has the details as she says Stephen Healy branded Russia's cyberspace actions as criminal seaven said that no one expected every 10 to the potential state based conflict I'm threats from Russia including the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Seoul is very the bombing of civilians in Syria and the illegal an accession of Crimea the post-war consensus that has provided the basis for the rules based international order is being challenged and undermined we must respond collectively with our NATO and other partners to counter hostile acts by Russia says Steven also used his speech to touch on Armed Forces spending he said we can no longer accept that better technology can only come at ever greater cost than solutions on the answer to tearing I want complex technology which gives me the decisive edge and I want the mass has also announced an investment of over $2000000.00 pounds in resources and activities to help inspire young people from all backgrounds to sign up to the Air Force we aim to reach 2000000 students and their teachers in every corner of the U.K. Providing free educational support and subjects crucial to future workforce this stain ability within our you have context says Stephen revealed that the already is the busiest It has been and at least a generation undertaking the most sustained period of high intensity war fighting since the 2nd World War The US forces. And here's the Government's had failed the security shakeup amid concerns that the threat from Islam is terrorism may increase in the next 2 years the prime minister says Britain's enemies should be in no doubt that every capability in the country's disposal will be used to defeat them Adam Gilchrist has more details a review of Britain's security looks at the threat from terrorists inspired by Islamic states but also state sponsored threats from Russia Iran and North Korea trees amaze as the Soulsby nerve agent attack underlines the need to make better use of financial cultural and diplomatic clout as well as military force is the security minister Ben Wallace We're going to fuse together the ability of our intelligence services that people a store if you might have thought just focused on countries such as Russia the buzz phrase being used is fusion doctrine we're going to bring in the National Crime Agency to bring in some of their international network we're going to bring across local government so we can deal with organized crime groups where they are active on the ground in their own communities the idea is that in dealing with any threat to national security every part of government every agency plays its part even combating false information for instance 20 different stories of come out of Moscow since the souls pretty attack his security minister Ben Wallace again the different strategies the government have contests strategy for terrorism series organized crime strategy national cybersecurity strategy all of those are incredibly solid pieces of work that have produced amazing results but they need to be brought together to some extent review confirms that the annual national security budget is set to rise from 56 to 60000000000 pounds V.C.S. Forces ratio full season decision to release the serial sex offender John will boys has just been have a ton by the high courts he was due to be released last 10 years in prison that sparked outrage from his victims to have him mounted a legal challenge on doing that the original decision by the parole board was fundamentally flawed and national memorial service for the French police officer who was killed off offering himself an. Exchange for a hostage last week is being held in Paris on about Tom's coffin has been taken to the streets to the traditional resting place for France's military heroes where present is to speak in tribute to him if you can tell it will take place in Liverpool later the comedian died earlier this month at the age of 90 big screens have been put up as hundreds of people are expected to attend to pay their respects . To force radio. The government's revealed plans for a new charge on plastic glass and metal drinks containers in England to tackle pollution subject to consultation the new scheme will put a deposit on bottles and cans which will get back when you take them back environment believes it could be a game changer. To deal with the toy of plastic that's. The only way in which we can deal with this effect of a. Critical part of that is having a deposit returned the. 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But the main objective is that you have fun and you don't hurt you so that's always a good move I guess the way it will be heading off to know if. Liam Payne a Rita Ora on certainly connected Forces Radio Yes from center log in Germany with myself Chris Pierce and keep the look alike pictures coming through to you connected at the F.B.I. Still call me if you just take a moment to look around the office where you are the workshop school maybe even home where you got a member of the family who looks like someone famous maybe they know it maybe maybe they don't know and maybe they should and this could be a good way of doing that by e-mailing a picture of them to connected at the F.B.S. Talk on the latest to appear Caroline candle in the who works in beta field in Germany and apparently her friends always compare it to Barbra Streisand you can check. 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Standing in and looking after the show. Good Friday trucks you don't normally hear kids they are basically too long but they are amazing. To wrap around those on The Long Good Friday all the way through the day. Back with my last week on the show before I hand over to. Number Ones all the way through the day now but number ones all day long here are some of the best number ones from the past. Music specials coming your way here on Forces Radio B S B S over the next few days we're going to be heading off in just a moment. Meeting the crew from one regiment Army Air Corps flying the wild. Party continues after. She's. She's on my 9th Chris. Man on 106.8 F A mean Seoul's pretty plane he's on again tomorrow morning from 6 o'clock this well recently he ventured down the A 3 o 3 looking out for the speakers by Stonehenge and just as you approach able to visit the station there the Naval Air Station all this week we're getting to know the Army's new Wildcat helicopter and how it's going to change soldiering in the air over the coming years Chris has been able to meet some of the crew who fly and operate the new aircraft many of the personnel have transferred from the Lynx the machine that preceded the Wildcats so. On the cream and from 61 squadron Army Corps. Aviation crewman What is your job so on in the cabin working as a part of 3 crew concept and basically what we do is we keep an eye out for a croft on getting into confined areas and we also appreciate the weapon systems on the aircraft. Yeah sure so we didn't have a geisha as well help with an avocation as well at the same time so you came from the links to the won't catch all of the difference is that you found butt. So from my personal experience when I was on links I was doing medical emergency response in Kenya so now we've come a go see we're on the Walcott you focusing more on reconnaissance and. Part of our comes with the protection aircraft which is operating systems big shell for me. After you've been with it for a while. So a lot of things in the cabin for a start with a seat us number one but then also all another patient systems and ever since just a lot more modern and. Easy makes life a lot easier for us all of think this is a real 21st century flight. Definitely a lot capabilities I think going along with all of the more noise actionable equipment on the aircraft and obviously looking forward to getting stuck in traveling around going overseas with. 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Take part rather in adrenalin choke on the stocks in training when I was 7 say I've had 3 operational tools and a few postings in detachments loads of experiences really I think we've all been building up to this I think that after all the places are being the brilliance of jobs are done this is probably the biggest challenge him on everything I've done and has been building up to this I think teaching is going to be very exciting less long time employment in the British army Royal Air Force or more maybe in the last 5 years then you can apply for the new 40000 times government bursaries to retrain as a teacher it's part of the Department of Education's commitment to the armed forces come in and make the transition to the classroom and share your expertise with the next generation find out how to apply by searching online protections and to teach it it's really difficult when you just want to get on with the job but this was stress just having a view. Really helped us knowing that it was someone named to help me out when you're going through a difficult place conflict the army mediations that is the day when you need them most mediation is them please take to play to resign if workplace conflicts these inexperienced independent media agents in a confidential environment it's independent of the chain of command and it's available to friends any time they help me avoid a long formal service complaint process I didn't have to get the chain of command share. And Miss Perfect which sounds like a statement but is just statement of fact US That's what the songs called when we had the recent visit in Germany from the. Megastar that works alongside him the whole time these days that is Mr Blunt James Blunt he was talking about said every song you wish you wrote because he's working closely with us and the songs of his that you wish you were and he said that one perfect is your sort of James Bond so when it released for you to choose one thing I want if you did the dish with Dash recently there's another charity run coming up in your part of the world counter-example club which used just up the road from Forces Radio B F B S on home road alongside 2 of the World's Fair supporting. The charity 5 K. Run they're doing on Sunday 15th April it's a dog friendly 5 K. Race in aid of 3 to refit causes including hounds for heroes find out more by visiting the Catterick Saddle Club they'll give you all the information and get the date in your diary Sunday 15th April silly your partner or 2 junior soldiers from the Army Foundation College an hour ago I've been raising money for a military charity by tackling one of the toughest obstacle races in the country adrenalin shock in North Yorkshire is a 10 kilometer well run that culminates in the crypt in fact are still a soul course Chris K. From the encounter Rick watched the event which was happening in aid of the Soldier's Charity. Battle together in groups of 8 these race participants are performing synchronized squads the event hasn't even begun and their legs are being. On a windswept hilltop only ask enrichment but warm up is under way. To get the full sun that. Is that. This is definitely not a typical Sunday morning for cheating a soldier Kelly mooning. Understandably there are a few know about what's to come. Course has been designed by. The route is much more diverse because of the hard the ground is going to be pretty tough go in. But the main objective is that you have fun and you don't hurt you so as the race gets underway the runners have to navigate by rivers. Other. Calls to the tree like Crowd. Almost by. Feeling particularly pleased with himself as he recalls the fastest time for the A.F.C. Her. Captain John Donnelly is delighted by their performance and hopes his. Experience sense of achievement. Different. From interacting with the local community. Forces. Radio big F.B.S. In Richmond. Italy. Forces phrase. a. Call. Never One of hundreds being celebrated this Sunday 1st of April here on the Forces Network at 10 o'clock in the morning U.K. Time on Forces Radio B F B S The history of the Spitfire and how she became a symbol of victory 1 o'clock in the afternoon U.K. Time here on the radio the Vulcan documentary The world's 1st bomb come an amusing look at the Majestic Afro Vulcan including an interview with Mohsin Withers who flew the thing of course on the famous mission in the Falkland Islands from Ascension on a 7 o'clock U.K. Time on Sunday evening we have tea with a national treasure one of the 167 Spitfire girls who ferried aircraft from the Supermarine factories to various bases and who enroll after the after 8 o'clock U.K. Turn as we celebrate 84 Squadron in Cyprus all of that coming up this weekend on forces from the. Soccer things happening on forces T.V. To including the most. Performing at the Royal Albert Hall on Easter Sunday in the festival of music live on foresees T.V. 3 o'clock in the afternoon you cater to morrow on the show we're going to be chatting with. Involved in a new one here on social economic. Which continues live from Germany with myself