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I&rsquo;m always impressed by these people. They have got guts.&quot;<br><br>The Armed Forces Flag was raised in Corby yesterday to mark the onset of Armed Forces Weeks and to show support to the servicemen and women from the town.<br><br>Posted by Simon Williams<br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-19852443-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=19852443\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teams supported British soldiers in Afghanistan despite coming under rocket and machine gun attacks.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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