Black Watch Regimental Sergeant Major Brian Cooper also criticised the shortage of nuclear, biological and chemical protection suits and equipment.

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Strap on a mask and fins, and share the sea with schools of trumpet fish, black and white sergeant fish, small sharks and, of course, green turtles.

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Charles Quinn, a former regimental sergeant major with the Black Watch, who is part of the Black Watch Association, said it was supporting the retention of all Scottish regiments.

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At the Metropolitan Police stores, Sergeant Knox shows me a horn from a black rhinoceros, brutally hacked away from the animal's head.

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Sergeant Joseph Murphy, a 58-year-old black veteran of the Korean war, the oldest.

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