A reporter for the Daily Star accompanied the 1st Battalion the Coldstream Guards and the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland on live fire pre-deployment training mission in Kenya. Battling through searing 30C heat, scorpions and monsoon downpours the company marched across miles of arid Kenyan bush to take down their enemy. As well as having enemy targets - civilians were interspersed meaning that just like in a real war the soldiers had to properly identify their targets before pulling the trigger. The former commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment said: “Collective training exercises give deep capability to a battlegroup from the youngest soldier to the oldest. "All those skill sets which we foster in a team ethos and a team spirit which is brothers in arms.”

Source: Daily Mirror October 25, 2019 21:00 UTC