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Author: Posted by Mike Hughes

1 Recruit Training Unit celebrated 70 years with the first course graduates being flown to Point Cook for their graduation ceremony. Story by Sergeant Bickerton.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

70 years of RAAF recruiting

22/03/202423/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2337 Views 0 Comments No. 1 Recruit Training Unit, RAAF Edinburgh, RAAF Point Cook

Participants in this year’s first 1 Recruit Training Unit (1RTU) course were flown to the former recruit training base at

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Signallers Harley Leggett and Lachlan Colquhoun set up a communications tower during Project Convergence Capstone 4 at Camp Pendleton, California. Story by Lieutenant Colonel Carrie Robards. Photo by US Army Specialist Marquis McCants.
Australian Army News Science & Technology USA 

Diggers experiment to innovate in US

22/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2043 Views 0 Comments Project Convergence Capstone Four (PC-C4), US Army

It’s not often soldiers feel it’s okay to fail at work – and they’re certainly not encouraged to. CAPTION: Signallers Harley

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A 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment soldier assists a simulated casualty during an urban breaching exercise at Townsville Field Training Area. Story and photo by Corporal Luke Bellman.
Australian Army News 

Exercise an assault on engineers’ senses

22/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1951 Views 0 Comments 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment, Military Working Dogs, Urban Operations Training Facility

Booby traps, enemy fire and a simulated canine casualty confronted sappers from the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment after they blasted

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Former Air Commodore Vin Hill pictured here with retired Air Vice-Marshal and former Deputy Chief of Air Force, Dave Rogers at Vin's home in New Zealand in January 2024. Story by John Noble.
ADF People History Lest We Forget Royal Australian Air Force Veterans 

VALE: Former Air Commodore Vin Hill

22/03/202409/04/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1960 Views 0 Comments

One of the Royal Australian Air Force’s last great aviators and true characters died just months shy of his 100th

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Commanding Officer 130 Squadron Republic of Singapore Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Goh Seow Hong in a Hawk 127. Story and photo by Flying Officer Michael Thomas.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Flight affirms friendship

22/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1598 Views 0 Comments Hawk-127, No 79 Squadron, RAAF Pearce, Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF)

What started as a casual conversation at the 2023 RAAF Base Pearce end of year function turned into a unique

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Gap year personnel with a static display at Indian Naval Station Rajali, Naval Air Base, Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu India. From left, Leading Aircraftman Jason Grant, Aircraftwomen Ella Johnstone and Caitlan Williams, Aircraftmen Luke O'Brien and Garrison Asciak, and Aircraftwomen Maddison Fordred and Ebony Jones. Story by Flight Lieutenant Nancye Houston. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Jason Grant.
ADF People Royal Australian Air Force 

Gap year students sample overseas operation

20/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1662 Views 0 Comments Gap Year program, No. 1 Security Forces Squadron.

Seven Air Force members were given a career-defining opportunity during their Gap Year program. CAPTION: Gap year personnel with a static

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Commanding Officer 5th Combat Service Support Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Shaw, and Regimental Sergeant Major, Warrant Officer Class One Matthew Ryan, lay a wreath as part of the commemoration of the 1954 Stockton Bight Disaster.
ADF People Australian Army History Lest We Forget 

Stockton Bight tragedy commemorated

20/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1978 Views 0 Comments 5th Combat Service Support Battalion

Soldiers from the 5th Combat Services Support Battalion (5CSSB), veterans, and community leaders assembled at Fort Scratchley near Newcastle to

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Lieutenant Yoon Lee takes a bearing on the bridge of HMAS Yarra. Story by Lieutenant Geoff Long. Photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvihill.
News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Yarra sailing on a high

20/03/202423/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1945 Views 0 Comments HMAS Waterhen, HMAS Yarra, Huon-class Minehunter

Talk to any of the crew in HMAS Yarra and the overwhelming take-away is the high level of professional and

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Royal Australian Navy sailor Able Seaman Dean Hall, Australia’s Federation Guard, performs precision drill movements during a display at Canberra Skyfire 2024 at Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra. Story by Flight Lieutenant Felicity Abraham. Photos by Leading Aircraftman Ryan Howell.
Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force 

ADF wows Skyfire crowds

20/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1824 Views 0 Comments Australia’s Federation Guard, Band of the Royal Military College, M2A2 Howitzer

An ADF aircraft and band featured in the return of Skyfire, after five years, to the shores of Lake Burley

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Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment during an urban operations exercise at the disused Stuart State School in Townsville. Story and photo by Corporal Luke Bellman.
Australian Army News 

3RAR goes back to school – to survive

20/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1759 Views 0 Comments 3rd Battalion RAR

As 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) soldiers breached doors, cleared rooms and hunted the ‘enemy’ through Townsville’s closed Stuart

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Roulette 2 Flight Lieutenant James Dutschke flies in formation over Changi, Singapore, during the Roulettes display at the Singapore Airshow. Story by Flight Lieutenant Greg Hinks.
News Overseas Royal Australian Air Force 

Roulettes roll into Singapore

20/03/202423/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2286 Views 0 Comments C-130J Hercules, No. 37 Squadron, PC-21, RAAF East Sale, Roulettes, Singapore

As the six Pilatus PC-21 aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes rolled and looped over the Singaporean landscape,

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Timor-Leste Defence Force Lieutenant Jacinto Do Nascimento salutes Lieutenant Clementino Colo ahead of his promotion on board PT Paluma. Story by Richard Wilkins.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Timor Leste prepare to receive two new patrol boats

20/03/202421/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2761 Views 0 Comments Guardian-class Patrol Boat, Regional Maritime Security Program, Timor-Leste Defence Force

Timor-Leste will receive two Guardian-class patrol boats in 2024 as part of Australia’s regional Maritime Security Program. CAPTION: Timor-Leste Defence Force

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The Cost of Doing Business: Military Aviation Safety in Australia 1914 – 2022, written by Squadron Leader Barrie Bardoe.
ADF People History Royal Australian Air Force 

The ‘Cost of Doing Business’ book launched

15/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1798 Views 0 Comments Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA)

A new book tells the story of Australia’s tumultuous path to becoming a global leader in military aviation safety. The

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Army soldiers prepare cargo for an airlift by the Rural Fire Service helicopter. Story by Corporal Luke Bellman. Photos by Warrant Officer Robert Spooner.
Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force 

Rural Fire Service gives Army a lift

15/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1923 Views 0 Comments Air Mobility Group, Air Mobility Training and Development Unit (AMTDU), NSWRFS, RAAF Richmond

Soldiers teamed up with NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) to practise underslung cargo lifts with one of their helicopters at

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Head of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator Professor Emily Hilder addresses the Quantum Australia 2024 Conference in Sydney. Story by Natalie Staples.
ADF ADF People Science & Technology 

Making the tiniest things count in war

15/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1801 Views 0 Comments Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA), AUKUS, Defence Strategic Review, Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT)

Harnessing quantum behaviours to develop advanced technologies could enable Defence to provide the warfighter with an asymmetric advantage. CAPTION: Head of

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Commander French Navy POM Auguste Benebig Jean-Francois Cabaret with HMAS Cairns Commanding Officer Alfonso Santos. Story by Corporal Michael Rogers. Photo by Ken Wilson.
News Royal Australian Navy 

French OPV visits Cairns

15/03/202416/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2324 Views 0 Comments French Navy, HMAS Cairns, New Caledonia

A brand-new French Navy offshore patrol vessel made a stop into Cairns during its participation in the US joint humanitarian

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Personnel from the Army, Queensland police, ambulance, and fire and emergency services, and other attendees with their vehicles at the Run Army 2024 launch held at Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera. Story by Corporal Melina Young. Photo by Aircraftwoman Nell Bradbury.
Australian Army Health and Wellbeing News 

Time to get ready for Run Army

15/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1660 Views 0 Comments Run Army

Download Strava, don some Lycra and get ready for Run Army 2024 on April 21. CAPTION: Personnel from the Army, Queensland

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Soldiers from Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment conduct live-fire training on Australian light armoured vehicles at Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland. Story by Corporal Luke Bellman. Photos by Trooper Dana Millington.
Australian Army News 

B Squadron gets extra sting with Wasp

15/03/202416/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1894 Views 5 Comments 2nd Cavalry Regiment

2nd Cavalry Regiment Australian light armoured vehicles (ASLAVs) fired 25mm rounds to neutralise targets spotted by the unit’s Wasp uncrewed

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Narelle Powers after having her head shaved at Reserve and Cadet Support Headquarters, holding a cheque for $7500. Photo by Emily Egan.
ADF People Health and Wellbeing 

Two significant journeys, one occasion

15/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 934 Views 0 Comments ADF Reserve, Cancer Council Australia

A former Army officer diagnosed with breast cancer 23 years ago has bravely ‘left it all behind’, shaving her head

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Wing Commander Fiona Grasby takes time to talk to colleagues about International Women’s Day at Brindabella Park, Canberra. Story and photo by Leading Seaman Nadav Harel.
ADF People 

Fulfilling the need to serve and protect

13/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 940 Views 0 Comments International Women's Day

An Afghan girl’s wide eyes looked up beneath the light-brown shayla that wrapped her head and shoulders. A lock of

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