Tag: army

MoD gets in Boxxe formation

Posted on July 27, 2022 by - News

Boxxe has been scored “2022’s largest Microsoft deal in the UK public sector” with the MoD.

The  deal, worth £291 million, is a three-year contract, which Boxxe claims is the largest Microsoft deals in the UK public sector this year.  Apparently, this involves Boxxe managing the MoD’s Microsoft Enterprise Licensing agreement.

The agreement will see Boxxe use their Licence Management Platform and Microsoft resources to support and manage its operations.

British army gets its own social networking unit

Posted on February 2, 2015 by - News

article-2630396-1DE5D1E700000578-447_470x721The British Army is setting up a psy-ops unit that will fight its battles on social media “in the information age”.

Head of the Army General Sir Nick Carter said the move was about trying to operate “smarter”.

Dubbed the 77th Brigade, the unit will be made up of reservists and regular troops and based in Hermitage, Berkshire.

Apparently, it has been inspired by the Chindits who fought in Burma in World War Two and seeks “new ways of allowing civilians with bespoke skills to serve alongside their military counterparts”.

Chindits was the name given to the Long Range Penetration (LRP) groups that operated in the Burmese jungle behind enemy lines, targeting Japanese communications.

The new unit will also use the old Chindit insignia of a Chinthe, a mythical Burmese creature which is half-lion and half-dragon.

The unit recognises that the actions of others in a modern battlefield can be affected in ways that are not necessarily violent and it draws heavily on important lessons from our commitments to operations in Afghanistan amongst others.

Recruitment for the brigade, 42 percent of whose personnel will be reservists, will begin this spring.

Its members will come from the Royal Navy and RAF as well as from the Army.

 

 

Manning sues US army for sex change

Posted on September 25, 2014 by - News

AP_chelsea_bradley_manning_wikileaks_lpl_130822_16x9_992A year after having been sentenced to 35 years jail for leaking documents proving US war crimes, “Chelsea” Manning is suing the army.

In an 180-page complaint, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, who now uses the name Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, alleged having been “denied access to medically necessary treatment for her gender dysphoria”.

Since she was imprisoned August 21, 2013, she has been seeking hormone treatment; she says she feels that she is a woman in a man’s body.

The case has the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union. Manning sued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the Pentagon, alleging that her US constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual treatment, is being violated.

“The government continues to deny Manning’s access to necessary medical treatment for gender dysphoria, without which she will continue to suffer severe psychological harms,” said Chase Strangio, attorney in the ACLU Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender project and co-counsel for Manning.

“Such clear disregard of well-established medical protocols constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.”

Manning has acknowledged releasing more than 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks.

In 2010, WikiLeaks began publishing 250,000 American diplomatic cables and 500,000 classified military reports, covering both American diplomacy and the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.