The UK's first Battalion, The Royal Welsh, held a grand retirement ceremony for their regimental goat Billy, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.

英国《每日电讯报》21日报道，英国皇家威尔士军营近日为山羊比利举行了盛大的退役仪式。

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This article is the first in a series chronicling the yearlong deployment of the first Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, based in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan.

这篇文章是整个系列的第一篇文章，这一系列文章记述了第87步兵军团一营官兵在阿富汗昆都士省布防的为期一年的生活。

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Asthe men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry deployed, planeload afterplaneload, to Afghanistan this year, there was an unspoken question in the air:Who among them wouldn’t make it home?

随着87团一营的士兵们被运上飞机，一批又一批的部署在阿富汗，就有一个难以启齿的问题一直萦绕心头：他们之中谁将在阿富汗阵亡？

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That same day, I spend time with the men of the First Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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On Thursday, Second Lieutenant Lucy Horner will escort the sprigs from Belfast City Airport to the First Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, currently based at Canterbury in Kent.

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But with the bill to create the first battalion of 350, 000 jobs in the public sector now being aired in parliament, people seem to have changed their minds.

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