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Digging Up Bones

31/12/2024 Dave Beck 1725 Views 0 Comments HMAS Vampire, USS Barb

In early June of 1966 The USS Barb SSN 596 made a recreational visit to Singapore. While at sea I

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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 Videos 

All 72 RAAF F-35s now delivered

30/12/202408/01/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5207 Views 3 Comments F-35A Lightning II

The delivery of the final nine of Australia’s fleet of 72 F-35A Lightning II aircraft that occurred earlier in December

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Editor's Vlog 

Shed basement – better progress

29/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1620 Views 3 Comments Make-n-Do

After a slow start, progress in the basement has been good. I now have a deeper hole – and somewhere

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An Aussie veteran of Task Group Taji
ADF Middle East News 

Operation Okra in Iraq officially ends

29/12/202429/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6470 Views 0 Comments Iraq, Operation Okra

Operation Okra, the Australian Defence Force’s contribution to the international coalition against Daesh in Iraq and Syria, has concluded with

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Editor's Vlog 

Shed basement – Merry Christmas

24/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1738 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

Christmas is coming and the shed-basement project progresses – with a minor (or maybe even major) hiccup just today. You

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Editor's Vlog 

Shed basement – digging deeper

21/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1642 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

As a hole-digging-progress report, this.video is sooo exciting –– NOT! But, stick with me and I promise it will get

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Rear Admiral Chris Cavanaugh, commander, Submarine Group 7, pins US Navy Submarine Warfare Device 'dolphins' on a Royal Australian Navy lieutenant commander during a pier-side quarters for the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Vermont (SSN 792) in Japan. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel G. Providakes.
News Pacific Royal Australian Navy USA 

First Aussie to earn USN submariners’ ‘Dolphins’

18/12/202418/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2045 Views 2 Comments AUKUS

The US Navy qualified the first Royal Australian Navy officer on a nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka,

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ADF People News What's on... 

SF-crewed Happy Wanderer in this year’s Sydney to Hobart

18/12/202418/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1846 Views 0 Comments Sydney to Hobart, Wandering Warriors

Get ready to witness an extraordinary feat of endurance and passion this Boxing Day as Team Happy Wanderer takes on

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Editor's Vlog 

New project – digging a hole in my shed

14/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1197 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

My shed has a basement under half of it. But it’s not high enough to stand up in – at

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A Ventia firetruck conducts a firefighting demonstration at RAAF Base Pearce in Western Australia. Photo by Flying Officer Michael Thomas.
ADF News 

ACCC sues over alleged price-fixing cartel for ADF base-services contracts

12/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2954 Views 2 Comments

ACCC has started civil cartel proceedings in the Federal Court against two companies and four senior executives for alleged price

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News Royal Australian Navy Sovereign industry 

KONGSBERG test fires first Australian-made NSM launcher

12/12/202415/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1721 Views 2 Comments Naval Strike Missile, NSM

KONGSBERG announced that its first Australian-manufactured launcher for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) capability has successfully completed a blast-test vehicle

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HMAS Brisbane fires a Tomahawk missile off the cost of San Diego, USA. Photo by Petty Officer Craig Walton.
News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Brisbane fires Tomahawk ahead of purchase

10/12/202410/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1569 Views 0 Comments Tomahawk

Royal Australian Navy has achieved a major milestone in realising an enhanced and lethal surface combatant fleet, with Australia becoming

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Editor's Vlog 

Finished kitchen and bathroom tour

07/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1121 Views 2 Comments Make-n-Do

IT’S ALL DONE (nearly – just minor touchups you don’t need to watch). The kitchen floor was the last major

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News Veterans 

Govt urged to negotiate return of VC hero from Russian morgue

04/12/202404/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2170 Views 0 Comments Sergeant Samuel Pearse VC MM

The Returned & Services League of Australia (RSLA) has called on the Government to work with Russian authorities to enable

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News Veterans What's on... 

SF charity cricket match for Wandering Warriors

03/12/202403/12/2024 Tracey Jones 1355 Views 0 Comments Memorial Warriors Cup

East vs West – who’s taking home the Memorial Warriors Cup this year? Join us Saturday, Jan 25, 2025, at

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CONTACT sets new readership record

02/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 868 Views 0 Comments

CONTACT web site broke last year’s record of 6,519,714 page views for the calendar year today, 2 December. The new

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The first Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130J-300 Hercules to land in Antarctica is unloaded at McMurdo Station. NZDF photo supplied.
New Zealand News 

RNZAF’s first C-130J flight Antarctica

02/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1430 Views 0 Comments C-130J Hercules

Flying one of the new Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) C-130J-30 Hercules to Antarctica for the first time was

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Editor's Vlog 

All the fiddly bits to finish a kitchen build

30/11/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1120 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

I can’t believe it – my daughter’s kitchen build is finished! Or at least it is now, in real life.

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RNZN Divers survey the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the southern coast of Upulo as part of Op Resolution – NZDF's recovery/salvage operation. Image supplied.
New Zealand News Pacific 

HMNZS Manawanui sinking – human error

29/11/202429/11/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2788 Views 4 Comments HMNZS Manawanui

HMNZS Manawanui grounded and sunk off the coast of Samoa as a result of human error, the interim Court of

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Editor's Vlog 

Kitchen ceiling – part 2

23/11/202424/11/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1488 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

The central, drop-down part of the ceiling will be a centrepiece of my daughter’s kitchen – if all goes to

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