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Author: Jim Veryard

CONTACT Editor Brian Hartigan (not a Hasho) on the bayonet assault course with SLR, 1990.
Poets Corner 

Just a Nasho

10/01/2021 Jim Veryard 219 Views 0 Comments

We trained for a war that never came We never left our native shores We never fired a shot in

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Australian Defence Force personnel from Australia’s Federation Guard carry the coffins of the 33 Australian service personnel and dependants repatriated from SE Asia from a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster at RAAF Base Richmond on 2 June 2016. Original photo by Corporal David Gibbs, digitally stylised by CONTACT.
Poets Corner 

Mates and Comrades

09/01/202110/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 285 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

We’re the parents who watched with pride, the day that you marched out But the ideals for which you stood,

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Marine Technicians Able Seamen Greg Hallet, Cassandra Bullock, Mason Turner, Cody Martin, Yassi Coban and Leading Seaman Morse Stanton in front of NUSHIP Supply at Fleet Base West, Western Australia. Photo by Leading Seaman Ronnie Baltoft.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

NUSHIP Supply heads for commissioning

08/01/202108/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 1077 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Navy’s first Supply-class auxiliary oilier replenishment (AOR) NUSHIP Supply has been formally accepted from Navantia.

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COVID-19 latest ADF figures
ADF Australian News 

Two new cases of COVID-19 in ADF

07/01/202110/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 323 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence added another two cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to 137. Both new cases are indicated as being diagnosed ‘overseas’.

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Royal Australian Navy aircrewman Leading Seaman Ben Nixon of 808 Squadron assesses a NSW national-parks bushfire from his MRH90 Taipan helicopter. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Kelvin Hockey.
ADF Australian News Operations 

Medal and clasp for Operation Bushfire Assist

07/01/202107/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 2951 Views 13 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Many people who took part in the firefighting effort during last summer’s bushfires will be awarded the National Emergency Medal with clasp.

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Passchendaele
Poets Corner 

Tread gently

07/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 170 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

Tread gently on this foreign field, for it lies soaked in blood, that flowed across this battlefield, a tragic crimson flood

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Australian soldiers from the 10th Force Support Battalion drive a LARC5 (light amphibious resupply cargo) onto Galoa, Fiji with humanitarian-assistance supplies. Photo by Corporal Dustin Anderson.
ADF Australian News Overseas Pacific 

ADF helping Fiji after cyclone

07/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 613 Views 0 Comments

ADF is assisting Fijianan authorities provide assistance to thousands of Fijians affected by the category-5 Tropical Cyclone Yasa.

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135th COVID-19 case in Defence
ADF Australian News 

Defence adds 135th case of COVID-19

06/01/202106/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 225 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence officially recorded its 135th confirmed case of COVID-19 yesterday, with the new case added to the ‘overseas’ total.

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Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre. Commonwealth copyright.
Australian Australian Border Force News 

‘Disturbance’ at Christmas Island detention centre

06/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 369 Views 0 Comments

ADF says an operation is underway to restore order after a disturbance in the Immigration Detention Centre on Christmas Island.

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Major General Cheryl Pearce signs a Transfer of Authority certificate appointing Colonel Neil Wright as acting Officer in Charge of the military components in Cyprus until the new force commander arrives. Photographer unknown.
Australian Australian Army Europe News Overseas 

Aussie commander in Cyprus completes two-year mission

06/01/202106/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 414 Views 0 Comments

After two years as Commander United Nations Force in Cyprus, Major General Cheryl Pearce completed her tenure this month.

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Kay Danes with fellow speaker Alan Jones and her husband, former SAS Warrant Officer Kerry Danes. Photo supplied.
Health and Wellbeing Thought provoking 

Stand tall for ADF PTS reform

06/01/202106/01/2021 Dr Kay Danes, OAM 374 Views 0 Comments

The following is a keynote address given by Dr Kay Danes at the launch of a ‘Stand Tall for PTS’

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A RAAF P-8A Poseidon supports sea trials for NUSHIP (now HMAS) Hobart in the Gulf St Vincent off the coast of Adelaide. Photo by Corporal Craig Barrett.
Royal Australian Air Force Thought provoking Videos 

What we don’t know about P-8A Poseidon is somehow comforting

06/01/202106/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 1066 Views 1 Comment

The government recently announced that it was buying two extra P-8A Poseidon long-range, armed, maritime search, reconnaissance (and attack) aircraft

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COVID-19 updates 4 January 2021
ADF Australian News 

7 Christmas cases of COVID-19 for Defence

04/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 238 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence today updated its COVID-19 running totals to show that they have now accumulated a total 134 confirmed cases, with

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Australian soldiers enter the town of Bardia, Libia, on the second day of the Battle of Bardia. AWM006083 by unknown British official photographer.
Australian Australian Army Middle East News Veterans 

Remembering the Battle of Bardia 80 years on

03/01/202102/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 262 Views 0 Comments

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Bardia – the first land battle of WWII planned and fought predominantly by Australians.

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A Vultee Vengeance MkIV general-purpose dive bomber at RAAF Base Williamtown, NSW, circa 1943. AWMP00448.191
Poets Corner Royal Australian Air Force Veterans 

ANGELS WITH BROKEN WINGS

02/01/202107/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 295 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

A poem dedicated to 300 RAAF aircrew killed during training at flying schools and conversion units in Australia during World War II.

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RAAF 100 coin
Australian News Royal Australian Air Force 

First new coins of 2021 mark RAAF Centenary

02/01/202102/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 515 Views 0 Comments

To welcome in the New Year, the Royal Australian Mint has unveiled the new theme for the 2021 Gallery Press and Mintmark Suite coins.

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Holy Cow – what a year!!!
Editor's Blog News 

HOLY COW – What a year!!!

01/01/202102/01/2021 Brian Hartigan 340 Views 0 Comments

HOLY COW!!! What a year – and I’m not even talking about COVID-19 or bushfires! 2020 was CONTACT’s best year ever for audience engagement.

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A view of the Hedgemony game board during a trial game at Russell Offices, Canberra. Photo by Sergeant Sebastian Beurich.
ADF Australian News 

Global strategic war gaming at Defence HQ

31/12/2020 Brian Hartigan 534 Views 0 Comments

Intelligence indicates enemy are attempting to posture in north-east Africa, threatening free passage through the Gulf of Aden.

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A typical British Army British Boxer. Image supplied.
News Science & Technology 

Kongsberg wins RWS contract for British MIV

30/12/202030/12/2020 Brian Hartigan 703 Views 0 Comments

Kongsberg has signed a contract with Thales UK to delivery its PROTECTOR RS4 RWS for the British Army’s Mechanised Infantry Vehicle program.

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Aircrew from No. 36 Squadron, RAAF Base Amberley, enjoy a semi-traditional Christmas lunch onboard a C-17A Globemaster in transit to the Middle East. Photo by Sergeant W Guthrie.
Poets Corner 

Another Christmas

30/12/202030/12/2020 Brian Hartigan 301 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

You see it on greeting cards – frost, fur, sleigh – As I recall when I was young that was the Irish way, But mum and dad saw better times and took me by the hand, And journeyed far upon the tide to a new and distant land

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