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Four cases of COVID-19 added to ADF tally
ADF Australian News 

Defence adds four cases of COVID-19

12/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 27 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence added another four cases of COVID-19 to its tally of confirmed cases today – all four accounted as being ‘overseas’.

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An Australian Army soldier deployed on Operation NSW Flood Assist walks between debris from flood damage in Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales. Photo by Corporal Sagi Biederman.
ADF News 

Operation NSW Flood Assist winding down

12/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 67 Views 0 Comments Operation NSW Flood Assist 21-1

After assisting thousands of residents and business in hard-hit flood-affected communities, Op NSW Flood Assist 21-1 is winding down.

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An Australian Army Boxer conducts a water crossing at Greenbank Training Area during a drivers' course. Cropped segment from a Corporal Nicole Dorrett photo.
Australian News Sovereign industry 

Aussie Supashock wins two Rheinmetall contracts

11/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 72 Views 0 Comments

Supashock has secured a multi-million dollar export order for running gear suspension systems on Rheinmetall military vehicles in Europe.

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An air warfare destroyer under construction, 'watched' by students.
Australian News Sovereign industry 

Learn naval shipbuilding on line

11/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 83 Views 0 Comments

A new naval shipbuilding ‘taster course’ endorsed by Australia’s defence industry is set to be rolled out to its first

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HMAS Supply's commissioning ceremony at Fleet Base East in Sydney, New South Wales. Photo by Leading Seaman Christopher Szumlanski.
News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Supply commissioned into service

11/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 234 Views 0 Comments

Royal Australian Navy’s operational support capability has received a significant boost with the commissioning of HMAS Supply into service.

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Australian 'Rats of Tobruk' dug in for the fight.
Australian History Middle East News 

80th anniversary of the siege that spawned ‘The Rats of Tobruk’

10/04/202110/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 156 Views 0 Comments

On 10/11 April 2021, we commemorate 80 years since the start of a port siege in Libya – and the birth of ‘The Rats of Tobruk’.

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six new cases of COVID-19 in Defence
ADF Australian News 

Six new cases of COVID-19 in Defence

09/04/202109/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 89 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence added another six confirmed cases of COVID-19 today. All were accounted as occurring ‘overseas’ – with two ‘recovered’ (sub-total 175) 

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Air Force personnel remove flood-damaged items from local homes and streets in Port Macquarie during Operation NSW Flood Assist. Photo by Private Jacob Hilton.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Air Force grounded for flood clean-up

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 76 Views 0 Comments

With tasks piling up in regional NSW following the one-in-100-year flooding, 51 members of the Air Force were called in

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Soldiers remove debris from a flood-damaged property in Taree. Photo by Corporal Sagi Biderman .
Australian Army News Videos 

Hard work recognised

09/04/202109/04/2021 Mike Hughes 71 Views 0 Comments

The commander of the ADF’s support to the flood recovery efforts in NSW, Brigadier Mick Garraway, has praised the work

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Captain Mark Beretta, left, Major Cameron Stephenson and Lieutenant Colonel Reg Crawford (retd) took part in this year’s Tour de Cure cancer charity ride.
Australian Army News 

Soldiers up to Tour de Cure challenge

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 80 Views 0 Comments

Two serving Army officers and a retired officer rode their bicycles 1000km in seven days to raise money for cancer

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Lance Corporal Rebecca Baxter from the 4th/19th Prince of Wales Light Horse Regiment adjusts the prototype female heavy-webbing harness and belt on Private Jessica Russell from the 8th/7th Battalion, Royal Victoria Regiment. Photo by Captain Kristen Cleland.
Australian Army 

Women fitted to fight

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 234 Views 0 Comments

Women’s roles in combat are taking another step forward with the development and trialling of combat equipment and uniforms designed

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Corporal James Milne from the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, right, with Republic of Fiji Military Forces’ Private Seruwaia Kovakova, front, and Lance Corporal Apimeleki Nabati during urban training. Photo by Corporal Nicole Dorrett.
Australian Army News Pacific 

Fijians join Aussie soldiers for urban training

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 113 Views 0 Comments

Soldiers from the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) have joined Australian infantry soldiers from Army’s 7th Combat Brigade for

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Private Sireli Levukaiciwa from the Republic of Fiji Military Forces gives Kava to the Commanding Officer of 8th/9th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel John Eccleston. Photo by Private Jacob Hilton.
Australian Army News Pacific 

Ceremony welcomes Fijian soldiers

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 108 Views 0 Comments

Welcomes don’t come much warmer than the one given by the 7th Combat Brigade to 37 soldiers and officers from

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Sailors with Neil and Gwen Mcleod after clearing debris from their flood-damaged property in Scotts Head, NSW. Photo by Corporal Robert Whitmore.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Fighting and winning ashore

09/04/202112/04/2021 Mike Hughes 97 Views 2 Comments

From the first response with aircraft flying from HMAS Albatross to personnel on the ground in the NSW mid-north coast,

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Members of HMAS Sirius’ ship's company wave to the crew of Royal Malaysian Navy ship KD Lekir in the Andaman Sea. Photo by Leading Seaman Thomas Sawtell.
Asia News Royal Australian Navy 

Malaysia and Australia replenish relationship

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 88 Views 0 Comments

HMAS Sirius conducted a series of exercises with the Royal Malaysian Navy corvette KD Lekir in the Andaman Sea, and

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HMAS Sirius sails in company with frigates INS Kiltan of the Indian Navy and FS Surcouf of the French Navy, in the Bay of Bengal during Exercise La Perouse.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Aussie ships impress on French-led exercise

09/04/202110/04/2021 Mike Hughes 202 Views 0 Comments

HMA Ships Anzac and Sirius made an immediate impact with their international counterparts in the French-led Exercise La Perouse in

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HMAS Sirius conducts a replenishment at sea with USS Theodore Roosevelt. Photo by Leading Seaman Thomas Sawtell.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Sirius has a day to remember

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 97 Views 0 Comments

HMAS Sirius has completed one of its biggest ever Replenishment at Sea (RAS) with the 100,000-ton Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS

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HMAS Melville departing her home port of Cairns to conduct hydrographic survey work in the Bass Strait.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Survey work to make navigation safer

09/04/2021 Mike Hughes 76 Views 0 Comments

HMAS Melville has returned to her home port of Cairns after a six-week deployment completing survey work in poorly surveyed

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HMAS Darwin conducts a Nulka active missile decoy firing. Photo by Able Seaman Sarah Williams.
News Royal Australian Navy Sovereign industry 

Indigenous company to build Nulka assembly plant

09/04/202109/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 226 Views 0 Comments

An Indigenous company has a contract to build a $23.9million Nulka assembly and maintenance facility in Orchard Hills, NSW.

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Royal Australian Air Force Air Movements Operators from No. 23 Squadron and No. 36 Squadron loadmasters, load a pallet of humanitarian aid on board a 36SQN C-17A Globemaster. Photo by Corporal Jesse Kane.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF dumps ‘airmen and airwomen’ for ‘aviators’

08/04/202108/04/2021 Brian Hartigan 613 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Air Force has replaced the term ‘airmen and airwomen’ with ‘aviators’ as it enters its second century.

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