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September 2006
64 Pages This Issue
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Commencing operations on Anzac Day last year, the Al Muthanna Task Group, with its 40 ASLAVs (Australian Light Armoured Vehicles) , rolled into the southern Iraqi province to provide a secure area of operations for a contingent of Japanese military engineers. Less than 18 months after its inception and with its assignment successfully complete, the Al Muthanna Task Group will be broken up and replaced by a new battlegroup based in southern Iraq. Words Brian
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On the ground in Iraq, US soldiers give us an insight into their equipment - what works and what doesn't. Words Ian
Bostock |
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Less than three years after the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) began - and seemed to be going so well - large parts of Honiara were razed in a mob rampage that also left more than 30 peacekeepers injured and a peace-starved community scarred anew. In this feature, Commissioner Mick Keelty - a man better positioned than most to view the big picture in our region - explains why it is important for Australia to get its hands dirty in our region. Words Brian
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While Honiara smoulders, Dili flares up! As mere observers, we can but shake our heads in disbelief at the cycle of mayhem in our neighbourhood in the recent past - earthquakes, tsunami, cyclones - bombings, riots and civil unrest - what the hell is going on? Words Brian
Hartigan |
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Airfield Defence Guards - resilient, innovativeopen-minded and armed to the teeth, but "definitely not special forces" - that's what you'll find if you take a closer look at the Royal Australian Air Force's Airfield Defence Guards. Far from being a typical 'guarding' entity, patrolling a base and checking IDs at the front gate, Airfield Defence Guards - or ADGies as they are affectionately known - are very much a mobile, outside-the-wire fighting force of considerable capability. Words Brian
hartigan |
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Hardening the Australian Army - the Abrams M1A1 AIM main battle tank is on time and on target and on its way to the Aussie outback - and we get a sneek preview. Words |
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After
several months in Somalia, the 1RAR Battalion Group had begun to extend
its activities to some of the more remote parts of its area of operations.
Intensive peace-enforcement operations in and around the inland city of
Baidoa had managed to quellmuch of the lawlessness and mayhem that had
beset the region before the arrival of the Australians. the taming of
Baidoa and its surrounding villages had allowed the Aussies to look further
afield to where organised tribal militia had retreated. Words Wayne
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