Archive: Soldier

ESRC: Soldiers who desecrate the dead see themselves as hunters

Modern day soldiers who mutilate enemy corpses or take body-parts as trophies are usually thought to be suffering from the extreme stresses of battle. But, research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) shows that this sort of misconduct has most often been carried out by fighters who viewed the enemy as racially different from themselves and used images of the hunt to describe their actions.

BASC: Christmas comes early for soldier wounded in Afghanistan

IET: RAF engineer named as Churchill Medal winner

An RAF engineer, whose work has resulted in a reduction of casualties from improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, has won a prestigious engineering award.

Blind Veterans UK: Tarts for Troops

Join the Military Wives Choir and host a party to raise funds for Blind Veterans!