Royal Navy Media Archive
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Medical Assistant Sasha Noakes at work on-board HMS BULWARK. Picture: LA(Phot) Arron Hoare
CHESTERFIELD MEDICAL ASSISTANT READY FOR SEA KHANJAR - 29/09/13
It is one of the Armed Forces biggest operations testing the might of the UK Response Force Task Group and Medical Assistant (MA) Sasha Noakes from Chesterfield is playing her role onboard the Fleet Flagship HMS Bulwark.
The ship is about to embark on a major exercise called ‘Sea Khanjar’ which will be played out over several days in waters, and desert, around the United Arab Emirates. The Task Group – comprising four warships and five support ships – left the UK in August for a deployment called ‘Cougar 13” and has already carried out a number of successful exercises and operations with various allies. The first in Albania for Exercise Albanian Lion and more recently with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Exercise Red Alligator which took place in the Red Sea.
Working in the Medical department of HMS Bulwark is 29 year old MA Sasha Noakes from Chesterfield. Sasha who attended Brookfield Community School joined the Royal Navy on 1 Mar 2009 after seeing a recruitment poster in her local Job Centre.
MT130082
Medical Assistant Sasha Noakes at work on-board HMS BULWARK. Picture: LA(Phot) Arron Hoare
CHESTERFIELD MEDICAL ASSISTANT READY FOR SEA KHANJAR - 29/09/13
It is one of the Armed Forces biggest operations testing the might of the UK Response Force Task Group and Medical Assistant (MA) Sasha Noakes from Chesterfield is playing her role onboard the Fleet Flagship HMS Bulwark.
The ship is about to embark on a major exercise called ‘Sea Khanjar’ which will be played out over several days in waters, and desert, around the United Arab Emirates. The Task Group – comprising four warships and five support ships – left the UK in August for a deployment called ‘Cougar 13” and has already carried out a number of successful exercises and operations with various allies. The first in Albania for Exercise Albanian Lion and more recently with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Exercise Red Alligator which took place in the Red Sea.
Working in the Medical department of HMS Bulwark is 29 year old MA Sasha Noakes from Chesterfield. Sasha who attended Brookfield Community School joined the Royal Navy on 1 Mar 2009 after seeing a recruitment poster in her local Job Centre.