{"id":157,"date":"2010-02-24T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?157"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:38:24","slug":"norfolk-soldier-receives-mbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/norfolk-soldier-receives-mbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk soldier receives MBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warrant officer class 2 Paul Shipley has received an MBE from the Queen for his amazing work in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Norfolk soldier, who has served her Majesty for 17 years, visited Buckingham Palace a couple of weeks ago to collect the accolade, the Norwich Evening News reported.<\/p>\n<p>He was awarded the honour while stationed at Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood, Middlesex, which is the UK military&rsquo;s headquarters and where overseas operations are planned.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I never expected to receive such an award. It took a while for it to sink in &ndash; when I realised it was true, I was shocked. It&rsquo;s a great honour,&quot; he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>His commanding officer put him up for the prize for his work in coming up with solutions to operational problems.<\/p>\n<p>Another troop to be honoured by the Queen with an MBE is warrant officer class 1 Anthony Hobbins, who has served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan as well.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Samantha Thompson<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-19634029-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=19634029\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Shipley, who has served her Majesty for 17 years, has been given an MBE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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