Congratulations to Lt Col L Giles who has been awarded an Honorary degree from Exeter University where she works as New College Commander.
Lt Col L Giles oversees the leadership development of officer cadets on the Regular Commissioning Course through a programme of academic study, military exercises and physical training.
“I’m completely humbled and amazed to receive such an amazing honour from my university,†she said.
“I think day-to-day you don’t think you are doing anything particularly special.â€
Lt Col Giles is the first female College Commander in The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst’s 200-year history.
She joined the Army in 1992 after studying Biology at Exeter and enjoying University Officer Training Corps.
Early regimental duty included a year in Germany, followed by tours of Bosnia and in South Africa. On gaining her majority, she was posted to 5 Airborne Brigade with tours to East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Bosnia again.
Lt Col Giles commanded 47 Air Despatch Squadron Royal Logistic Corps enabling operations in Iraq and Afghanistan before joining Headquarters Directorate Royal Logistic Corps. This was followed by another command tour at a training regiment and a teaching appointment at the Joint Services Command and Staff College.
She gained her Masters in Military Studies with Cranfield University and her PGCE with the University of Southampton.
At the inaugural Women in Defence event, Lt Col Giles was given the Inspirational Award and the Woman of the Year 2016 Award. She is an ambassador for First Women UK and was in the Times 500 People of Influence 2016.
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Congratulations to the Womens Cross Country Ski Team. 1st Reserve Team and 2nd Overall Team in the 7.5k skate race. 🥇🏆🏴@RHQ_The_RLC @RlcSports @101_Log_Bde
Congratulations all. Some of the RHQ RLC staff were fortunate enough last week to try this food in a dress rehearsal for the competition - superb!
Our first result @IKAolympics and it is a Silver for our Regional Cold Table. A fantastic result for a team that have been working together for less than a year.
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Clearly worked and inspired a regional cold table silver. Up the tempo and help them to a gold.
Great to see #RLC #Corpsofdrums showing support for the @CulinaryMoD team @IKAolympics
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The Royal Logistic Corps
Over 4-5 March a team of 12 from 3 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps will pull a 4-tonne VW van as far as they can in 24 hours. The event will take place at Blenheim Palace and will raise money for ABF The Soldiers' Charity and Mind as well as supporting the #ArmyConfidence recruitment campaign.
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RLC Chefs, Cpl Grahame Wickam and LCpl Richie Godden, as part of the Combined Services Culinary Arts Team are going for Gold at the 2020 Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart. The event takes place 14-19 Feb and attracts 2000 civilian and military chefs from across the globe.
At a final practice held at Food Services Wing Worthy Down last week, the team prepared an amazing three course meal for 120 covers. Based on that they have a great chance of a medal. Good luck. ... See MoreSee Less
On 5 Feb the Army’s Apprenticeship Launch took place in support of the National Apprenticeship Week.
The successful nominees for the upcoming Army Apprenticeships Awards were present. The Colonel RLC said how extremely proud he is of the work the soldiers have put into completing their awards and congratulated them on progressing to the Army Apprenticeship Finals on 11 Mar.
The Colonel RLC's aspiration to secure an apprenticeship for all direct entry RLC soldiers, was furthered during the week at a visit to 17 Port and Maritime Regiment RLC, Marchwood to confirm if Mr K Foster, CEO of the Workboat Association and Mr M Ince from the RLC's service provider Pearson would support the aspiration for RLC Mariners to be enrolled on the L2 Workboat Crew Member Apprenticeship. WO1 Styles on behalf the Regiment and staff from 73 Squadron were on hand to ask questions. #WeAreTheRLC Army Jobs ... See MoreSee Less