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Author: Posted by Brian Hartigan

Editor's Vlog 

Bathroom vanity – part 3 – drawers

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1444 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

Here’s a boring little video for you – making a drawer for the bathroom vanity unit. I know it’s boring –

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Stranded tourists board a RAAF C-130J Hercules at Noumea’s Magenta Airport for repatriation to Australia following violent unrest in New Caledonia. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Adam Abela.
News Pacific Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF flies stranded Aussies home from New Caledonia

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1972 Views 1 Comment New Caledonia

Around 70 Australians and foreign nationals boarded a Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules for the first ADF repatriation flight

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Royal Australian Navy sailor Able Seaman Dillan Ackerman oversees 3D printed engineering parts at Fleet Support Unit – South East, Sydney. Photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvihill.
News Royal Australian Navy 

New technologies could solve Navy’s spare-part problems

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1477 Views 0 Comments

Sailors from Fleet Support Unit (FSU) are developing tools that will ensure ships and submarines never run out of spare

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Royal Australian Navy EC-135 Aircraft from 723 Squadron conduct a fly past during the 723 Squadron Graduation Ceremony held at HMAS Albatross in Nowra. Story by Sub Lieutenant Jess Gould. Photo by Leading Seaman Ryan Tascas .
ADF News 

ADF helicopter-pilot training increased 50%

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2113 Views 0 Comments

After substantially increasing flying hours over the past two-and-a-half years, 723 Squadron has increased its graduate output by 50 per

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Australian Army officers and soldiers from 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment march in the streets of Airlie Beach while exercising their Freedom of Entry Parade. Photo by Trooper Dana Millington.
Australian Army News 

3CER exercise Freedom of Entry at Airlie Beach – finally

22/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1515 Views 0 Comments

In a first for the Whitsunday region, members of the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (3CER) conducted a freedom-of-entry parade at

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Australian Army soldier Private Lachlan Parker from the 5th Brigade on patrol during Exercise Tasman Reserve 2024.
Australian Army New Zealand News 

Aussie infantrymen integrated into major Kiwi reservists’ exercise

22/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1747 Views 0 Comments

Biting cold and demanding sub-alpine conditions of the Waiouru Military Training Area in New Zealand’s north island were among the

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Royal Australian Navy Able Seaman Shannae Fiddyment, Petty Officer Eric Duthie, Able Seaman Grace Fox and Able Seaman Henrietta Bradford prepare communication equipment for a Remus 100S autonomous underwater vehicle during Exercise AUKUS at Pittwater, New South Wales. Photo by Able Seaman Lucinda Allanson.
Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

Royal Australian Navy investing heavily in AI

22/05/202422/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1539 Views 0 Comments

Artificial intelligence (AI) predicting and countering undersea threats, and AI-enabled drones conducting surface and sub-surface missions, are happening now through

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An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams fires its 120mm cannon during a live-fire serial for the Coral Balmoral Cup 2024 at the Puckapunyal Military Area, Victoria. Photo by Corporal Johnny Huang.
Australian Army News 

School of Armour ready for exciting future

22/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2171 Views 0 Comments School of Armour

Australian Army’s School of Armour is not just where the school holds its history, but where the future of mounted

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Willie Apiata VC addresses attendees at his a ceremony in which he was promoted to the honorary rank of Warrant Officer Class One (WO1) at Papakura Military Camp. During the ceremony, WO1 Apiata was also appointed as Special Representative to the New Zealand Defence Force. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Veterans 

Willie Apiata VC promoted to NZDF Special Representative

22/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2012 Views 0 Comments Willie Apiata VC

New Zealand’s only living recipient of the Victoria Cross, Willie Apiata, has been appointed a Special Representative to the New

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A New Zealand soldier observes a Ukrainian Army training activity in England. Photo by (ADF) Corporal Jonathan Goedhart.
New Zealand News 

NZDF pivots in training package for Ukraine

22/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1520 Views 0 Comments Ukraine

New Zealand Defence Force personnel deployed on Operation Tīeke in the United Kingdom have marked the departure of the latest

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The Joint Australian Training Team-Philippines (JATT-P) Mobile Training Team (MTT), supported by the ADF Warfare Training Centre, deliver two Joint Warfighting Planning Foundations Courses to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for the first time.
ADF Asia News 

Inaugural warfighting courses delivered in Philippines by mobile training team

21/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1707 Views 0 Comments

Two Joint Warfighting Planning Foundations courses have been delivered to the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the first time.

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Republic of Korea Navy Commander Dae-Joong Lee shakes hands with Commanding Officer HMAS Hobart, Commander Tina Brown during an official welcome meeting in Busan, Republic of Korea as part of HMAS Hobart's regional presence deployment. Photo by Leading Seaman Matthew Lyall.
Asia News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Hobart visits South Korea

21/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1777 Views 0 Comments South Korea

Royal Australian Navy guided missile destroyer HMAS Hobart has deepened ties with the Republic of Korea Navy, receiving a warm

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Australian Army Colonel Anthony Chambers from 2nd Health Brigade, at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, NSW. Photo by Corporal Johnny Huang.
ADF People Australian Army 

Bondi-stabbing victims saved by dual-life surgeon

21/05/202421/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1683 Views 0 Comments

Anthony Chambers had just finished removing a patient’s appendix at St Vincent’s hospital when every phone in the operating room

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An Australian Army soldier at the School of Infantry conducts an obstacle crossing during a patrol at the Singleton Military Area, NSW. Photo by Corporal Johnny Huang.
Australian Army News 

Infantry training at Singleton (?)

20/05/202421/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2056 Views 0 Comments

The 16 weeks of training for Royal Australian Infantry soldiers at Kapooka [sic – though CONTACT is pretty sure the

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Private Kieran Findlay in the United Nations Command Honor Guard at an Anzac Day Dawn Service at the War Memorial of Korea.
ADF People 

Soldier honoured to join international guard

20/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1443 Views 2 Comments Korea

An Australian soldier deployed to the Korean peninsula on Operation Linesmen has joined the multinational United Nations Command (UNC) Honour

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Members of the South Australian branch of the Air Force Association stop in front of a Jindivik target drone at the officers' mess, during a visit to RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia. Photo by Leading Aircraftwoman Annika Smit.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Veterans rekindle decades of memories at RAAF Base Edinburgh

20/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1343 Views 0 Comments

Royal Australian Air Force veterans who served at RAAF Base Edinburgh from as far back as the 1950s recently returned

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Editor's Vlog 

Fitting a bathroom vanity – part 2

18/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1296 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

After carefully sanding the vanity top for hours and hours – all the way to 400 grit – it’s now time

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HMAS Anzac prepares to berth alongside HMAS Stirling, the ship's home port, for the final time before decommissioning, on 18 May 2024. Photo by Rikki-Lea Phillips.
News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Anzac decommissioned

18/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5082 Views 0 Comments HMAS Anzac

The Royal Australian Navy’s First Lady of the Fleet, HMAS Anzac (III), has been farewelled after 28 years of service

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Editor's Vlog 

Bathroom vanity unit – part 1

09/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 983 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

With the tiling finished, it’s time to turn my attention to the fit out. First up is the vanity unit

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Soldiers from the Australian Army's 176 Air Dispatch Squadron work with Air Terminal Company, 3 Singapore Armed Forces Transport Battalion, during a Republic of Singapore Air Force C-130 training sortie. Photo by Aircraftwoman Maddison Scott.
ADF Asia News 

Singapore Hercules training at RAAF Base Richmond

07/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1751 Views 0 Comments Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF)

The Australian Defence Force is supporting the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) as it conducts air mobility training from

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