Thirty members of the the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment, were hard at work last week packing military helmets for the troops in Ukraine.
Working from morning until night, the Cottesmore based troops operated from a huge stores warehouse at MOD Donnington in Shropshire, where the surplus supplies have been shipped from military stores from across the UK.
The task includes physically stripping the helmets of any British Army webbing or identifying badges and packing them in crates each holding 100 of the life-saving pieces of headgear.
Sergeant Oliver Church, a platoon sergeant from A Company, who co-ordinated the mission on the ground to sort, pack and despatch the helmets on time, said: “The lads are more than happy to help the cause – hopefully what we are doing will be going to help our military counterparts in Ukraine providing them with the vital protection they really need at the moment”
The slick logistical operation saw the helmets collated and processed by Team Leidos staff employed under Defence Equipment and Support’s Logistics and Services Transformation (LCST) programme.
The soldiers processed up to 12,000 helmets a day packing the 100 helmets into giant cardboard boxes ready for Team Leidos to transport to Poland for onward distribution to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
They are currently the United Kingdom Standby Battalion (UKSB) ready to deploy at short notice to anywhere in the world they are needed.
