{"id":96778,"date":"2018-10-19T15:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=44aa40a0aba6f73e735c497d74f41e2f"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:51:32","slug":"press-release-uk-troops-touch-down-in-norway-following-epic-road-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=96778","title":{"rendered":"Press release: UK troops touch down in Norway following epic road move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Hundreds of British Army troops have successfully completed an epic road move to Norway, where they will now begin training with allies ahead of NATO Exercise Trident Juncture.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Forces Minister Mark Lancaster:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">With the Arctic and Far North becoming increasingly militarised, it is now more important than ever for the UK and our NATO Allies to train across a range of challenging environments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This exercise will truly test our ability to deter any aggression we may face in an era of intensifying threats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the course of the next 10 days Army personnel will integrate with fellow troops from Denmark and Poland \u2013 sharing equipment, drills and personnel to form a multinational, combat-ready brigade.<\/p>\n<p>Once complete British infantry and armoured reconnaissance vehicles, Danish main battle tanks and Polish armoured fighting vehicles will then conduct a week-long live exercise alongside brigades led by Germany and Italy against a fictitious invading enemy in defensive and offensive operations.<\/p>\n<p>In total there will be 2,700 UK Armed Forces personnel as well as six Royal Navy ships, 480 vehicles and Royal Air Force Hawk aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>With some 150 aircraft, 40,000 participants and 10,000 vehicles, Exercise Trident Juncture is the largest collective defence exercise NATO has seen in over a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of British Army troops have successfully completed an epic road move to Norway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}