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A member of the NZDF air loading team loads pallets to be carried on a C-130 Hercules of either the Royal New Zealand Air Force or Royal Canadian Air Force, in Germany. NZDF photo.

New Zealand crews distribute Ukraine-bound weapons around Europe

05/05/202205/05/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 532 Views 0 Comments Ukraine

New Zealand Defence Force personnel deployed to Europe have quickly integrated with international partner militaries and commenced supporting Ukraine’s self

A RAAF heritage formation at the RAAF Base Amberley Airshow 2008 – Mustang, Vampire, Meteor, Hawk, Hornet. Photo by Brian Hartigan.

News Royal Australian Air Force

RAAF announces Amberley air show for October

05/05/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 889 Views 1 Comment

Defence, in partnership with the Ipswich City Council, is pleased to announce the Ipswich Amberley Air Tattoo (Air Tattoo) will

Editor's Vlog

Rosie’s walk-in-wardrobe refurb – part 1

03/05/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 421 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

Rosie went to Ireland recently. As is my want, I began a significant project in the house just as soon

Australian New Zealand News

NIOA buys New Zealand firearms wholesaler

01/05/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 799 Views 0 Comments NIOA

NIOA will expand its presence in New Zealand with the acquisition of a leading firearms and ammunition wholesale distributor as

President of Vietnam Nguyễn Xuân Phúc (centre), and Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie (centre right), farewell Vietnamese peacekeepers in Hanoi, deploying to the United Nations mission in South Sudan on a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III. Photo supplied. Left to right: Ms Caitlin Wiesen-Antin (white scarf), United Nations Acting Resident Coordinator for Vietnam; Senior General Phan Văn Giang, Vietnam’s Minister for National Defence; President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc; Ms Mudie.

Asia News Rest of World Royal Australian Air Force

RAAF C-17 takes another Vietnamese peacekeeping rotation to Africa

28/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 988 Views 0 Comments Vietnam

A Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster will transport Vietnam People’s Army personnel, equipment and medical supplies to and from

CONTACT Editor Brian Hartigan participates in the Veteran Surf Project, reported on WIN News Illawarra.

Australian News Veterans Videos

Your editor made the news last night

28/04/202227/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 499 Views 2 Comments

CONTACT Editor Brian Hartigan – and friends – were featured on WIN News Illawarra 5.30 Local News on 27 April

Australian Army Europe News Royal Australian Air Force

Australia sends six 155mm howitzers and ammo to Ukraine

27/04/202227/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1286 Views 3 Comments Ukraine

Australia has sent six M777 155mm lightweight towed howitzers and ammunition to Europe for on-forwarding to Ukraine. CAPTION: Royal Australian Air

Crowds line the strreet to see the ANZAC Day march in Camden, NSW. Photo by Leading Seaman David Cox.

ADF News Veterans Videos

Defence supports post-pandemic ANZAC-Day events at home and abroad

25/04/202226/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 544 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2022

On Anzac Day, we remember not only the Australian & New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers who died on 25

United States Nuclear Submarine USS Springfield berthed outboard of USS Frank Cable at Fleet Base West, Western Australia. Photo by Leading Seaman Richard Cordell.

Australian News USA

US nuclear sub visits WA

25/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1224 Views 0 Comments HMAS Stirling, USS Frank Cable, USS Springfield

A United States Navy nuclear submarine visited Western Australia this week, calling in at HMAS Stirling for resupply. CAPTION: United

Soldiers from Mentoring Task Force – Three (MTF-3) move away from a helicopter landing zone, after loading Australian casualties wounded by an improvised explosive device on a Bushmaster, in the Chora Valley, southern Afghanistan. Photo by Able Seaman Jo Dilorenzo.

Poets Corner

There’s them, There’s us

24/04/202224/04/2022 Mick Shave 563 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Stand at ease; Attention; Move to the right in threes. Orders, orders, orders, Some of which were these. But really

Faces of Australian war veterans projected on a facade in Martin Place, Sydney, during an Anzac Day dawn service. Photo by Able Seaman Bonnie Gassner.

Poets Corner

The ghosts of the honored dead

24/04/202224/04/2022 Anndrà an Ruadh 497 Views 0 Comments By Anndrà an Ruadh

I was out protesting the war just the other day, when the ghost of a soldier came up to me.

Life on the Line Podcast

Ivan Ingham – Life on the Line

23/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 494 Views 0 Comments Life on the Line Podcast

Angus Hordern interviews Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy career officer Ivan Ingham. EXPLORE MORE LIFE ON THE

Australian soldiers from the Special Operations Task Group and Reconstruction Task Force farewell fallen comrade Private Luke Worsley during a ramp ceremony at their base in Uruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan on 27 November 2007. Photo by Captain Al Green.

Poets Corner

FOR LUKE

23/04/202224/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 352 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

There’s a soldier’s memorial at the end of our street, from a war they claim we lost For 41 Australian

United States Air Force F-16C aircraft from the 18th Aggressor Squadron conduct air-to-air refuelling operations with a Royal Australian Air Force KC-30A multi-role tanker transport from No.33 Squadron during Exercise Diamond Shield. Photo by Corporal Kieren Whiteley.

News Royal Australian Air Force

Exercise Diamond Shield concludes

22/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 423 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Air Force has successfully completed the first two exercises in the 2022 Diamond Series for the third

ANZAC Day 2020 in Kiama Downs NSW. Photo by Brian Hartigan.

Australian News Veterans

RSL LifeCare poll finds strong support for ANZAC Day

22/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 382 Views 0 Comments

RSL LifeCare is encouraging Australians to remember and support veterans on Anzac Day – and every day. FILE PHOTO: ANZAC

One of the first two Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning Joint Strike Fighters flies overhead RAAF Base Williamtown on delivery day. Photo by Brian Hartigan.

News Royal Australian Air Force

Australia-wide fly-past support on ANZAC Day

21/04/202223/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1927 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2022

New South Wales Date Town/City Location Time Aircraft 25th April 2022 Doyalson Pacific Hwy, Doyalson 9.05am F-35A Lightning II 25th

New Zealand Light Armoured Vehicles on exercise. NZDF photo.

New Zealand News Pacific

New Zealand sells LAVs to Chile

20/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1678 Views 0 Comments

The New Zealand Defence Force has finalised a sale of 22 surplus New Zealand Light Armoured Vehicles (NZLAVs) to the

Australian soldiers march with packs at the Royal Australian School of Infantry in Singleton. Photo by Sergeant Janine Fabre.

Letters to the Editor

Advice for a sleep walker

19/04/2022 Ben King 398 Views 0 Comments sleep walking

I’m looking for some advice more than anything and not sure who to reach out to… I enlisted in the

Editor's Vlog Videos

Extracting beauty from a ‘killer log’

18/04/202218/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 394 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

In the last video, I was nearly killed (OK, so I’m exaggerating just a little bit) by a log I

The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis and the aircraft carrier USS George Washington underway in the Andaman Sea with ships from their carrier strike groups. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth Abbate.

News USA

US Navy offering $25k bonus to all new enlistees

17/04/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 891 Views 0 Comments

The United States Navy has launched a major recruitment drive, offering enlistment bonuses of up to $50,000. FILE PHOTO (October