Navy rescues civvie kayaker from Sydney Harbour during peak hour
A quick, coordinated rescue effort by Royal Australian Navy personnel had a distressed kayaker plucked from icy waters, preventing a
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Author: Posted by Brian Hartigan
Operation Render Safe hits Nauru
Australian Army personnel from the 6th Engineer Support Regiment and 20th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron, along with allied partners, have
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Testing deployable hospital close to front line
Soldiers could be less likely to succumb to battlefield injuries thanks to a new manoeuvrable surgical medical-treatment facility that operates
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Seriously chunky bathroom shelves
Out comes another slab of ironbark – this time to make two seriously chunky shelves for the bathroom. I don’t
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Explosive detection dogs on Ex Brolga Run
From curling up with their handlers to doing a happy dance when they find explosives, the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment’s
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Aid heads to PNG after landslide
The ADF has delivered much-needed supplies of humanitarian aid to Papua New Guinea in the aftermath of the deadly landslide
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Civilian aircraft lands in safe hands
A civilian light aircraft with one crew and two passengers on board performed a textbook wheels-up landing at RAAF Base
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US submarine tender (with 30 Aussie crew) visits Darwin
Australia has welcomed the United States of America’s submarine tender USS Emory S. Land to Darwin for a port visit.
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Interagency crisis-response exercise in WA
It was an all-agencies approach at Fleet Base West, Rockingham, as Exercise Vulcan Phoenix got underway. CAPTION: HMAS Stirling and
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Soldiers experience ‘danger-close’ artillery
Soldiers from 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, conducted live-fire training, including danger-close serials, as part of a combined-arms training activity
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Call for pitches to optimise the soldier for littoral operations
The Australian Army is calling on defence industry and academia to pitch innovative capabilities to optimise the soldier for littoral
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Scientific team surveys health in PNG
Bringing science to the heart of Papua New Guinea, the ADF Malaria and Infectious Diseases Institute spent several weeks conducting
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Marking 110 years of silent service
It’s been 110 years since the Royal Australian Navy took delivery of its first submersible vessels, and while the technology
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1RAR fires heavy weapons at night
Soldiers from the direct fire support weapons platoon (DFSW) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, conducted a full-mission profile
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Bathroom vanity – part 3 – drawers
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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RAAF flies stranded Aussies home from 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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New technologies could solve Navy’s spare-part problems
Sailors from Fleet Support Unit (FSU) are developing tools that will ensure ships and submarines never run out of spare
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ADF helicopter-pilot training increased 50%
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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3CER exercise Freedom of Entry at Airlie Beach – finally
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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Aussie infantrymen integrated into major Kiwi reservists’ exercise
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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