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Atlantic, Caribbean & USA
15:33 GMT - 18 June 2013
Atlantic, Caribbean & USA
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Royal Naval Presentation Team
Welcome to the Royal Navy Engagement Team's website. Our eight members are a collection of Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel who tour the country talking with an assortment of people, including various communities, businesses and politicians.
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We deliver up to 100 presentations each year, educating an increasingly diverse audience about the work that the Royal Navy does on behalf of the UK and its citizens. Our fast-moving, multi-media presentation uses a combination of video footage, interviews from the Fleet and personal accounts from our Team members, all who have first-hand experience of recent operations, to deliver a highly-engaging insight into what your Royal Navy does.
COMMANDING OFFICER
Andy Jordan
- RANK:
- Commander
- JOINED:
- 1992
- SPECIALISATION:
- Warfare
- PREVIOUS UNITS:
- Iron Duke, Brecon, Ramsey
Military experience
After graduating from the University of Exeter, Andy Jordan joined the Royal Navy in 1992 as a full career warfare officer. He followed the conventional route to Principal Warfare Officer Course via watchkeeping and navigating officer appointments in Frigates, Destroyers and in HM Yacht Britannia.
He then completed a Principal Warfare Officer/Operations Officer appointment in HMS Cornwall, which included a global deployment as Group Ops Officer for a TG of 9 ships.
Selected for sea command and promotion to Lt Cdr in 2000, he firstly commanded HMS Brecon in the Northern Ireland Squadron 2001-02 and then HMS Ramsey 2002-03, which included deploying on Op Telic 1.
Selected for further promotion to Cdr and also sea command in 2004, he firstly commanded HMS Iron Duke 2005-2007 and then HMS Sutherland 2007. Immediately post command, he spent 9 months as Staff Operations Officer to UKMCC Bahrain, with responsibility for the day to day operations of up to the RN ships and submarines in theatre.
Joining PJHQ J7 in 2008 as SO1 Joint Mission Preparation, he had responsibility for setting and assuring the delivery of training for Ops Herrick,Telic and Calash. He joined Cap EP in Oct 2010 as the desk officer responsible for Maritime and C4ISR issues, in the development of the Equipment Plan.
He graduated from ACSC in 2004.
He is married to a Naval Lynx observer and has 3 daughters
UNIT DIARY
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Joint Intelligence Committee14/06/12
A civilian organisation which works closely with the military the JIC were a very engaging audience of 17 who, although working with the military, were appreciative of a refresh on the current roles and capabilities of the Royal Navy. The team also gave out some of our new ‘key message’ business cards.
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Foreign Ambassadors visit Portsmouth13/06/12
Hosted in Portsmouth the Foreign Ambassadors were just the kind of event that the RNPT is seeing more of, the 18 Ambassadors were from a broad variety of countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Peru and Japan and they were very interested in what the Royal Navy provides for the UK and how it operates with other countries.
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Framlingham Rotary Club29/05/12
On 29 May the Team presented at Framlingham Rotary Club to an audience of 36, who were all extremely welcoming and were from a cross section of local organisations.
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RFCA Scotland - Dunbarton Chamber of Commerce25/05/12
On 25 May the team were on the 3rd leg of a 3 day swing through Scotland, having already addressed senior Leadership at Hewlett Packard in Erskine and Civil Servants at the Scottish Parliament in the two days previous. The 40 strong audience were all from local businesses, small and large, and were impressed to see the way the Royal Navy is vital to them.
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HMS Ocean open to visitors - Grenwich07/05/12
5000 local residents turned out to visit HMS Ocean in Greenwich. The Navy’s largest ship was conducting exercises and other preparation for her role later in the year supporting the Met Police led Olympic security operation.
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