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The Scheme runs annually and gives an insight into military life for all three Armed Services, Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force. [2] The minimum commitment is 15 days over a 12-month course. [3] Its aim is to improve the quality of debate on military issues by exposing its members to first-hand experience of the service. [1]
The Armed Services Committee has jurisdiction over defense policy generally, ongoing military operations, the organization and reform of the Department of Defense and Department of Energy, counter-drug programs, acquisition and industrial base policy, technology transfer and export controls, joint interoperability, the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, Department of Energy nonproliferation ...
Great Military Battles. London: Spring Books. ISBN 9780600016526. Firth, C. H. (1898). "Royalist and Cromwellian Armies in Flanders, 1657–1662". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. pp. 67–119. Firth, C. H. (1972) [1902]. Cromwell's Army: A history of the English soldier during the civil wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate ...
Lieutenant Colonel Tobias Martin Ellwood VR (born 12 August 1966) is a former British Conservative Party politician and soldier who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth East from 2005 to 2024.
Sir Francis Knollys (also the oldest ever sitting MP) was first elected as MP for Oxford in 1575 at the age of around 25 and was MP for Reading at the time of his death in 1648, a period spanning 73 years, [8] although there were eight periods, amounting to 27 entire years (1590–1592, 1594–1596, 1599–1600, 1602–1603, 1605–1613, 1615 ...
Andrew Robert George Robathan, Baron Robathan, PC (born 17 July 1951) is a British Conservative Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire (previously Blaby) in Leicestershire as well as a government minister.
Decorated with the Military Cross (MC) in 1972 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1996 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 2009 The Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links: Conservative: 32nd Signal Regiment (2003 – 2006) 3 Signaller: The Lord de Mauley: Conservative: Royal Wessex Yeomanry ...
Under the Representation of the People Act 1981 any MP sentenced to over a year in jail automatically vacates their seat. For certain types of lesser acts of wrongdoing, the Recall of MPs Act 2015 mandates that a recall petition be opened; if signed by more than 10% of registered voters within the constituency, the seat is vacated.