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The British garrison is centred around RAF Mount Pleasant (the Mount Pleasant Complex) and includes commitments from all branches of the British Armed Forces, most notably; No. 1435 Flight RAF (4 x Typhoon FGR4), No. 1312 Flight RAF (one Voyager and one Airbus A400M Atlas), HMS Forth, and 1,000 British Army personnel.
Around 2000 personnel of the British Army, primarily from the 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, are stationed at the various sites of Brunei Garrison in the sultanate of Brunei Darussalam (the United Kingdom's largest remaining east of Suez deployment), [309] under the control of British Forces Brunei (BFB).
At the invitation of the UK Government, the United States has had military forces (known as US Visiting Forces) permanently stationed in the United Kingdom since the Second World War. The 1951 NATO Status of Forces Agreement and the Visiting Forces Act 1952 , along with other bilateral acts, establishes the legal status of the USVF in the UK.
It forms part of British Forces South Atlantic Islands and aims to reassure the inhabitants of the region and maintain British sovereignty. HMS Forth (P222) has been permanently assigned to the task since November 2019. [12] Forth uses the deepwater naval base facilities of East Cove Military Port at Mare Harbour, East Falkland.
Approximately 200 personnel work at the site. Djibouti: Camp Lemonnier, CSL Chabelley: Camp Lemonnier is the largest U.S. base in Africa with more than 4,000 military personnel. [101] Kenya: Camp Simba: Second largest U.S. base in Africa. Over 600 U.S. military personnel work at Camp Simba. [102] Seychelles: United States drone base in Seychelles
[46] [47] [48] Today, the British Army is the only Home British military force (unless the Army Cadet Force and the Combined Cadet Force are considered), including both the regular army and the forces it absorbed, though British military units organised on Territorial lines remain in British Overseas Territories that are still not considered ...
Pages in category "Military installations of the United Kingdom in other countries" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Telecommunications Research Establishment moved into Duke in 1946 (renamed in turn the Radar Research Establishment, the Royal Radar Establishment and the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment) and is now a QinetiQ research site. HMS Dundonald I, Holding and training base for RN Beach Commandos, Gailes Camp, Auchengate, Troon, Ayrshire