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Author: Brian Hartigan

ADF Australian News 

One more COVID-19 case

27/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 54 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence added one more confirmed case of COVID-19 to its tally today – and increased the total number ‘recovered too.

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F-35A Lightning II aircraft fly in formation along the Newcastle-region coast in NSW during Exercise Lightning Storm. Photo by Sergeant David Gibbs.
Australian News Royal Australian Air Force 

F-35As to visit Canberra

27/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 118 Views 0 Comments

Two F-35A Lightning aircraft from No. 3 Squadron, RAAF Base Williamtown, will conduct diversion training into Canberra Airport on Thursday.

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A C-130J Hercules overflies a Royal Australian Navy Collins-class submarine off the WA coast. Photo by Corporal David Gibbs.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

Submarine-rescue system contract cancelled

27/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 180 Views 0 Comments

ADF has announced that a $255million contract to build a new submarine-rescue capability has been axed – in the year before planned delivery.

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Major General Roger Noble welcomes members of the Sri Lankan Navy aboard HMAS Canberra at Colombo, Sri Lanka, during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019. Photo by Leading Seaman Steven Thomson.
ADF Australian News 

Australia Day Honours – Military Division

27/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 238 Views 0 Comments

Senior ADF officers’ work in ADF foreign relations and exports for Australian industry were recognised in the Australia Day honours.

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A RAAF member of the HMAS Adelaide crew walks through the headstones of Bomana Commonwealth War Cemetery, in Papua New Guinea, during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2017. Photo by Private Roger Brennan.
Poets Corner 

New Chums

26/01/202124/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 115 Views 0 Comments

THE HUNGRY AND THE WORLD’S OPPRESSED, WE WERE THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TRAVELLING TO THIS LAND OF HOPE, FROM WARTIME’S

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Words of wisdom are offered by an instructor to Special Air Service Regiment aspirants during selection. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Leigh Cameron.
Letters to the Editor 

What happened to the innocent SAS

25/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 480 Views 0 Comments

Can anybody tell me what happened or will happen to the innocent guys from 2 Squadron SASR which has now been disbanded?

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HMAS Hobart fires an SM2 missile. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Cameron Martin.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

$1 billion for early development of advanced guided missiles

25/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 236 Views 0 Comments

The govt will invest $1 billion to commence development of advanced guided missiles to enhance Australia’s maritime security.

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ADF Australian News 

Two more COVID-19 cases ‘overseas’

25/01/202126/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 28 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence has added two new confirmed cases of COVID-19. Both new cases were added to the ‘overseas’ tally, which stands at 89.

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Poets Corner 

Fallen Warrior

25/01/2021 Lee O'Neill 87 Views 0 Comments

Your life so young, by your own hand, was taken, Because, by those who sent you, you were forsaken. When

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Placing a poppy on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial. Photo by Corporal Nunu Campos.
Poets Corner 

The Writings on the Wall

24/01/202124/01/2021 John McCosker 137 Views 0 Comments

Where is this wall we talk about, the one with all the names By a lake, in a park not

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Menin Gate at midnight – oil on canvas by Will Longstaff (1927). AWM ART09807
Poets Corner 

A Thousand Men Are Marching By

24/01/202124/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 188 Views 0 Comments

A thousand men are marching by, A glassy stare in every eye, As they pass the sky grows red, We are not the living, but the dead.

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In memory of Tanker 134 and crew, lost on 23 January 2020
Poets Corner 

ALWAYS – Tanker 134

23/01/202123/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 204 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

  Three heroes left to do their job. three did not return Every task cheating death, peril at every turn

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Officers and sailors on HMAS Adelaide's flight deck during a mental-health awareness event at Garden Island. Photo by Petty Officer Justin Brown.
Poets Corner 

R U OK

22/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 160 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

WHEN YOU STRUGGLE WITH YOUR DEMONS TRYING TO HOLD YOUR FEARS AT BAY YOU HEAR THOSE WORDS OF COMFORT “HEY

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Aussie Heart Medal composite
ADF Australian News Veterans 

Should Australia have a ‘Purple Heart’-type award?

22/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 3237 Views 36 Comments

Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal will consider recognition for members of the ADF injured, wounded or killed in service.

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The Vietnam Memorial in Canberra. Photo by Laura Larking.
Poets Corner 

A Big Adventure

21/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 274 Views 0 Comments By Bob Lange

It was all a big adventure when I went away to war. It couldn’t really be too bad, our fathers

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Core Intelligent heated undersuit by Avon Protection. Image supplied.
News Science & Technology 

Smart heated undersuit to keep divers warm

20/01/202121/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 228 Views 0 Comments

Avon Protection have announce their Core Intelligent heated undersuit that maintains a diver’s body temperature in all water conditions.

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Craig Ramsay and Nick Stokesfrom Defcon Technologies, with Lee Davis, Land 400 Phase 3 and Gary Stewart from Rheinmetall at a Team Lynx event. Photo supplied.
Australian Australian Army News Science & Technology 

Defcon Technologies joins Team Lynx

20/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 321 Views 0 Comments

Canberra-based Defcon Technologies Group have joined as intercom supplier for Rheinmetall’s Team Lynx for LAND 400 Phase 3.

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ADF Australian News 

150th COVID-19 case recorded by Defence

20/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 257 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence rounded its confirmed COVID-19 case numbers to an even 150 today by adding one more to the ‘overseas’ subtotal.

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ADF Australian News 

Here’s how Defence records its own COVID-19 cases

20/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 151 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Rather than ‘make up’ a few lines to tell you about yesterday’s new ADF COVID cases, I thought I’d show you the lack of info I actually get.

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Australian History News Royal Australian Navy 

30th anniversary Op Desert Storm

18/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 367 Views 0 Comments

AWM has marked the 30th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm, the military response to Iraq’s illegal occupation of Kuwait.

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