Well done the Sunshine Commando
Apr 2, 2019 9:44:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 9:44:01 GMT
There is a lot of good work carried out by the Armed Forces, and it doesn't always get the publicity in deserves in the UK....
"A month-long Caribbean mercy mission by Royal Marines earned them the military’s highest humanitarian award – for an unprecedented fourth time.
The men and women of 40 Commando have received the Firmin Sword of Peace – recognition for providing life-saving aid, assistance and security to communities across the Caribbean when a succession of ferocious storms battered the region in the autumn of 2017.
The commandos, based at Norton Manor near Taunton, were among the first people on the ground in Anguilla, the British Virgin and Turks and Caicos Islands in the wake of devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.
They delivered food and fresh water, set up makeshift medical centres, cleared roads, restored power supplies, helped local authorities maintain law and order – the prison in the Virgin Islands was damaged and 141 inmates escaped, while looters armed with machetes plundered stores – patched up homes, secured an airport so flights could resume, rescued stray dogs and cleaned schools of debris so classes could resume."
40 Commando humanitarian mission
"A month-long Caribbean mercy mission by Royal Marines earned them the military’s highest humanitarian award – for an unprecedented fourth time.
The men and women of 40 Commando have received the Firmin Sword of Peace – recognition for providing life-saving aid, assistance and security to communities across the Caribbean when a succession of ferocious storms battered the region in the autumn of 2017.
The commandos, based at Norton Manor near Taunton, were among the first people on the ground in Anguilla, the British Virgin and Turks and Caicos Islands in the wake of devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.
They delivered food and fresh water, set up makeshift medical centres, cleared roads, restored power supplies, helped local authorities maintain law and order – the prison in the Virgin Islands was damaged and 141 inmates escaped, while looters armed with machetes plundered stores – patched up homes, secured an airport so flights could resume, rescued stray dogs and cleaned schools of debris so classes could resume."
40 Commando humanitarian mission