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	16 Air Assault Brigade - Welcome
		16 Air Assault Brigade is the most exciting formation in the Army and we are at the cutting edge of the military.
		16 Air Assault Brigade was formed on 1 September 1999 from an amalgamation of 24 Airmobile and 5 Airborne Brigades. It is a unique formation within the British Army, bringing together aviation and parachute capabilities.
		The 6,000-strong Brigade is a key part of the Joint Helicopter Command, which was formed in October 1999. The JHC has brought together the battlefield helicopters of all three services under single joint command.
	www.army.mod.uk /16_air_asslt_bde/welcome/index.htm (365 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Fact file: 16 Air Assault Brigade
		It was born from the amalgamation of 24 Airmobile and 5 Airborne Brigades, and includes a combination of air assault infantry, parachute troops and helicopters.
		In 2002, the brigade was instrumental in the establishment of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan, the United Nations-sponsored peacekeeping force deployed to provide security after the downfall of the Taleban regime.
		The brigade suffered a recent setback when the government's spending watchdog revealed that dozens of the army's new Apache Longbow attack helicopters were to be kept in storage for four years due to a shortage of trained pilots.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2677291.stm (778 words)

	16 Air Assault Brigade: Background
		16 Air Assault Brigade was formed on 1 September 1999 from an amalgamation of 24 Airmobile and 5 Airborne Brigades.
		The Brigade was commanded by Major General FAM (Boy) Browning, whose family crest inspired the Gryphons wings emblem adopted by the Brigade.
		In 1947 it became the 24th Infantry Brigade and served in a variety of roles in Kenya, Aden and Northern Ireland before returning to the UK in 1955 and reformed again as 24 Airmobile Brigade in 1988.
	www.army.mod.uk /16_air_asslt_bde/background.htm (622 words)

	British 16th Air Assault Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 16 Air Assault Brigade (16AAB) is a unit of the British Army.
		The brigade's sign is that of a light blue and maroon shield with a light blue striking eagle outlined in maroon emblazoned on it, intended to represent its offensive role.
		The brigade's units main tasks were to help rebuild the war-torn country and carry out patrol into Kabul, in the hope of reasuring the populace there, and nearby Bagram Air Base, both of which were under constant threat from Al Qaida and the Taliban.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_16_Air_Assault_Brigade (1465 words)

	16 Air Assault Brigade - ARRSEpedia
		This brigade combines parachute and aviation abilities, and is unique in the British Army for doing so.
		This brigade brings the ability to rapidly open and seize vital areas early on in a war, securing them for other soldiers to garrison.
		One of the newest additions to 16 Air Assault brigade is the Apache helicopter.
	www.arrse.co.uk /wiki/16_Air_Assault_Brigade (117 words)

	Force by force: how the military might stacks up - theage.com.au
		A brigade of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne is in Kuwait.
		Formed in September 1999, 16 Air Assault Brigade is the newest and largest brigade in the British Army with about 6000 personnel.
		It is supported by an army air defence detachment, a specialist explosives ordnance disposal team, troops to deal with nuclear or biological weapons, CH-47 troop-lift helicopters and a quick reaction support force drawn from the Sydney-based 4RAR Commando unit.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/03/22/1047749988443.html (750 words)

	2003 invasion of Iraq - Knowmore
		British officials did not dispute the document's authenticity, and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman has called the document "nothing new." The document corroborates the information in the full advice of Lord Goldsmith: "The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action.
		The British Royal Marines 3 Commando Brigade launched an air and amphibious assault on the Al-Faw peninsula during the closing hours of 20 March to secure the oil fields there; the amphibious assault was supported by frigates of the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy.
		The British 7 Armoured Brigade ('The Desert Rats') fought their way into Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, on 6 April, coming under constant attack by regulars and Fedayeen, while the 3rd Parachute Regiment cleared the 'old quarter' of the city that was inaccessible to vehicles.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/2003_invasion_of_Iraq (8476 words)

	Boeing's CH-47 Chinook helicopter - Waging the War against Terrorism [Page 1].
		Somewhere in the Gulf Region, a pair of RAF Chinooks conduct exercises with troops of 16 Air Assault Brigade.
		British forces continue to mass in the Kuwaiti desert in preparation for possible conflict with Iraq.
		Outside Kuwait City, British soldiers of 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force, look at an RAF HC Mark II Chinook of the Joint Helicopter Command as it lifts a Land Rover vehicle and its trailer during a practice air assault operation designed to capture an enemy airfield in the desert on Tuesday, 11 March 2003.
	www.chinook-helicopter.com /news/Iraq/Iraq_Operations.html (570 words)

	Airmobile: The Peak Years, 1967
		The original plan, as conceived in November 1966, called for the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division to make the parachute assault; but, much to their chagrin, they were engaged in other operations and the honor was to go to the 173d.
		While the initial parachute assault phase received most of the publicity, the subsequent tactical moves were made by helicopter and the momentum of the operation depended on this support.
		By that evening the 3d Brigade command post, the 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry, B Company of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry and C Battery of the 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery were closed and the Brigade was under operational control of the Americal Division.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/Airmobility/airmobility-ch07.html (9589 words)

	Dark Days Await Armies Gathering For The Mother Of All Showdowns Around Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Earlier, a senior British military source had said that the first of what was planned to be a series of massive US air assaults had been launched early yesterday on the three heavily armed Republican Guard divisions firmly established in a semi-circle about 30 miles to the west, south and east of Baghdad.
		Sources said British and US special forces are in or close to the "red zone" helping to identify targets for the assaults on the three divisions, half of the six that encircle the city.
		British officials said the task of the British 16 Air Assault Brigade was to continue to secure the Rumaila oilfield – where Allied officers say only seven of 500 wellheads are burning.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/874463/posts (1770 words)

	Slaughter of British Infantry at Albuera, 1811 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vistula Uhlans and the Destruction of British Brigade.
		Hoghton’s brigade, with the 57th of Foot in the centre, was just coming up, and by opening fire on the lancers shot many of Zayas’ brave Spaniards in the back.
		The severity of the British situation is clearly shown in the amount of prisoners taken and men killed and wounded.
	web2.airmail.net /napoleon/Albuera_1811.html (4030 words)

	16 Air Assault Brigade - Chain of Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		British staff sergeants are never referred to as "Sergeant", which would be reducing their rank, but are referred to and addressed as "Staff Sergeant", "Staff" or "Q" for Quartermaster Sergeants.
		In the British Army, there are two warrant ranks, Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) and Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1), which is the senior of the two.
		It was introduced in the British Army in 1928 to replace the short-lived appointment of Colonel-Commandant that had replaced the rank of Brigadier-General in 1922.
	www.16aa.com /index.php?page=coc (1183 words)

	The need for robust Special Forces
		Although the British 16 Air Assault Brigade secured the southern oilfields of Rumaila, west Kurna, Majnoon and Nehrumar, it was the US Haliburton subsidiary which, on day 14 of the war, had secured the $ 8 billion oil contract and actually reached oil sites.
		The official British war diary of that incident notes 'UK forces not involved.' The task given to them by the US-led coalition command was to secure the Al Faw peninsula earliest and prevent interference to the main advance to Baghdad from the south.
		But the most embarrassing disclosure remains the British secret dossier on Iraq's WMD which was presented in the UN and huge portions of which were lifted from a British research student's thesis.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/apr/25ashok.htm (1393 words)

	AugustaChronicle.com
		The uprising came as the British tried to gain control of Basra and relieve the city's trapped civilian population of 1.3 million, which was fast running out of food and was in danger of outbreaks of cholera and diarrhea from contaminated water.
		During the battle for control of Basra, the Iraqis were firing artillery from the center of the city at British troops, said British spokesman Col. Chris Vernon, while the British confined their artillery to the city's outskirts, trying to identify clear military targets, especially tanks, and avoid civilian casualties.
		British commanders were trying Wednesday, March 26, 2003, to establish the extent of the Iraqi opposition in the town after Tuesday night's brief uprising against Saddam Hussein's feared security service.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/032703/ira_124-4129.shtml (1142 words)

	11th Air Assault Brigade
		The brigade is trained for long range air assault operations along the full spectrum of military operations, from OOTW like disaster relief to high intensity warfare.
		Air Assault Brigade is trained in operations from the arctic to equatorial jungles.
		Given that Air Assault operations are very much ‘Sergeant Wars’ the central command does not so much keep itself busy with fighting as with making sure that all sub-units have what they need to perform well their given task.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/Europe/Netherlands/KL11AAB.htm (2652 words)

	Middle East Online
		Senior officers in the British army have been told to prepare for an occupation of Iraq lasting up to three years in the event of war and the downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government, the BBC reported Tuesday.
		It quoted Ministry of Defense sources as saying that many British troops being sent to Kuwait would probably be used for peacekeeping and "rearguard" duties, rather than in combat at the front lines.
		Plans to deploy 60 additional Royal Air Force fighter jets to the Gulf region are expected to be announced this week.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=4213 (518 words)

	40,000 British troops and 100-plus aircraft head to Gulf \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		The move, announced in the Commons by the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, is the last of the three elements of sea, ground and air power making up a force almost as large as Britain's contribution at the height of the 1991 Gulf war.
		British defence officials insist that the US has yet to provide them with a war plan.
		He said that British forces would be in the Gulf "for as long as it takes to disarm Iraq and the regime of Saddam Hussein".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,890920,00.html (848 words)

	3rd Parachute Brigade WWII British & Canadian Reenactors - RAMC
		While the exploits of Red Devils of the British Airborne in World War II are justly famous, the courageous part played by the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) units assigned to the airborne forces may sometimes be under-appreciated.
		The 16th was attached to the 1st Para Brigade and served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, and with great distinction in Arnhem.
		One orderly from 16 Para Field Ambulance used all 60 vials of morphine he had in the space of a single hour after he had made his way to Frost's 2nd Battalion holding Arnhem Bridge.
	www.6th-airborne.org /ramc.html (1471 words)

	2003 invasion of Iraq information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Approximately 100,000 United States soldiers and marines, 26,000 British soldiers and marines, and smaller forces from other nations, collectively called the "Coalition of the Willing," were deployed prior to the invasion primarily to several staging areas in Kuwait.
		During the battle an Air Force A-10 was involved in a case of fratricide that resulted in the death of six Marines [39].
		Farther south, the British 7 Armoured Brigade ('The Desert Rats') fought their way into Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, on 6 April, coming under constant attack by regulars and Fedayeen, while the 3rd Parachute Regiment cleared the 'old quarter' of the city that was inaccessible to vehicles.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/2003_invasion_of_Iraq (8471 words)

	Armed Forces - a3a6 - British Army - Formations - Army Brigades - Light Brigades - Mechanised Brigades - Armoured ...
		The Brigade capitalises on the combat capabilities of the former 24 Airmobile Brigade and 5 Airborne Brigade, including two parachute battalions with an increase in combat service support.
		This brigade is under the operational command of the JHC (Joint Helicopter Command) and could be assigned to other formations for operations.
		Each air assault infantry battalion has a personnel strength of 687 and is equipped with 12 x Milan firing posts.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /army/listings/l0013.html (649 words)

	AugustaChronicle.com
		The ground assault is designed to be a lightning movement similar to the opening of the Gulf War, with M1A1 Abrams tanks, mine-clearing vehicles and other armored forces blasting through dirt ramparts and across oil-filled trenches on portable bridges laid by combat engineers.
		The main axis of attack is expected to involve the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and 1st Marine Division, striking northward on the western side of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta toward Baghdad.
		The most likely approach is a helicopter-borne assault into the north by the 101st Airborne, one of the trickiest aspects of Franks' war plan.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/031903/ira_war.shtml (1537 words)

	Irish Regiments in Iraq -- The Wild Geese Today
		These fortifications frustrated successive British attempts to fight through to the beleaguered garrison at Kut, which was eventually forced to surrender on April 29, 1916.
		Despite this humiliating defeat for the British, the Connaught Rangers had won praise for their actions at the battles of Abu Roman and Beit Aiessa, where they had displayed the courage and dash for which their regiment was renowned.
		Arab resentment exploded in a countrywide rebellion in 1920, which the British attempted to suppress by resorting to indiscriminate aerial bombardment and the use of poison gas.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/iriraq.html (1545 words)

	British soldiers refuse to fight in Iraq war
		The two soldiers belong to the 16 Air Assault Brigade which has been involved in heavy fighting in the south of Iraq.
		Another lawyer who specialises in military affairs said of the private from 16 Air Assault Brigade that: "He told his superiors that he wasn't prepared to enter into a conflict that involved the killing of innocent civilians".
		Three British soldiers were wounded and one was killed in the incident, 35 miles north of Basra, in which two armoured vehicles were destroyed.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/brit_refuse_fight.html (810 words)

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		I thought that 16 Air Assault Brigade were penciled in for this.
		It must be the biggest brigade in the British Army.
		Considering that one of the jobs of Apaches is to take care of Air Defense sites, I'd hope that their training and doctrine would minimize the chance of some RPG carrying joker being successful.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/30-69703.aspx (1886 words)

	Longterm casualties of a policy of cut, cut, and cut again \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		The overstretching of the British military is not felt anywhere more acutely than in Afghanistan; 16 Air Assault Brigade, the core of the current British deployment to Helmand province, is under almost constant strain.
		Nonetheless, British forces in Afghanistan are doing a truly remarkable job, due in part to the presence of assets such as the Nimrod MR2 reconnaissance aircraft.
		The plane is not in danger, as it flies at high-altitude and the Taliban does not possess an air force.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /homeaffairs/story/0,,1864210,00.html (560 words)

	16 Air Assault Brigade - Total Battlefield 2 Forums
		The 16 Air Assault Brigade is always recruiting both beginners and seasoned players a like.
		Then the 16 Air Assault Brigade is the place for you.
		The 16 Air Assault Brigade is a gaming unit based on British Army structure.
	www.totalbf2.com /forums/showthread.php?t=40249 (2171 words)

	Wings of Freedom Air Show
		Replacing the Air Force's T-37 and the Navy's T-34C aircraft, which are 37 and 22 years old, respectively, the T-6A will offer better performance and significant improvements in training effectiveness, safety, cockpit accommodations and operational capabilities.
		The Black Hawk is the Army’s front-line utility helicopter used for air assault, air cavalry, and aeromedical evacuation units.
		It is designed to carry 11 combat-loaded, air assault troops, and it is capable of moving a 105-millimeter howitzer and 30 rounds of ammunition.
	www.wingsoffreedom.org /aircraft.html (1528 words)

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