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“It s logical that the military are brought in at a time of national need.” East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust paramedics training soldiers from the 1st Queens Dragoons Guards during the coronavirus pandemic. - Credit: UK Ministry of Defence 2020 He added: “The military is quite prepared to do whatever the nation asks, whether it is to deploy on overseas operations or counter insurgency or equally we always understand that military aid to the civilian authorities is part of our duties. “If the nation requires us to do stuff at home we will do stuff at home in an enthusiastic fashion. It is all part of the service.” ....
Died: December 1, 2020. AT A very early stage in his working life Michael O’Mahony, who has died at the age of 78, joined the Fire Brigades Union. He rose to become the Chairman of D Division within Strathclyde FBU and a leading light in the 1977 national firefighters’ dispute. As the union itself has remarked, the Labour government of the time never really believed that the dispute would happen, but it did. And for nine weeks in the midwinter, striking firefighters huddled round braziers outside fire stations, putting the case for improved conditions of pay and other important aspects of what is, after all, a dangerous profession. All of this was driven by need not greed. Soldiers equipped with Green Goddesses – Civil Defence tenders – responded to many fires. ....