Image of the Day: 30 July 2010

A soldier from 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment takes part in compound clearance training at Camp Bastion prior to Operation TOR SHEZADA. The operation was launched this morning to clear insurgents from Sayedabad to the south of Nad 'Ali in Helmand province and prevent them from being able to use the area as a base from which to launch attacks. See this and other Defence images on the MOD Flickr channel. [Picture: Corporal Barry Lloyd, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]