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HMA Ships Hobart, Stuart and Parramatta sail towards their homeport at Garden Island, Sydney, following a three-month deployment through East Asia. Photo by Leading Seaman Jason Griffiths.

East Asia Task Group home for Christmas

06/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1846 Views 0 Comments

Three Royal Australian Navy warships have returned to their homeport at Garden Island, Sydney, following a three-month deployment through East

An Australian Army rifleman from Bravo Company 6RAR and a soldier from the Royal Brunei Land Forces take part in a section attack during Exercise Mallee Bull 2019, at Gallipoli Barracks, Queensland. Photo by Private Nicole Dorrett.

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Bruneian soldiers finish exercising in Brisbane

06/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3586 Views 0 Comments

Australian and Bruneian soldiers have trained together in Australia for the first time in more than 10 years. CAPTION: An

Members of a Vietnam People's Army medical team board a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster in Hanoi, Vietnam, for transport to the Vietnamese Field Hospital supporting the United Nation's mission in South Sudan. Photo by Sergeant Christopher Dickson.

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RAAF transports second Vietnamese medical mission to South Sudan

29/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4211 Views 0 Comments

Australia continues to boost regional peacekeeping capabilities in South East Asia, in support of Vietnam’s second deployment to the United

Leading Seaman Jason Griffiths mans the MAG 58 light support weapon in HMAS Stuart's MH-60R helicopter with HMAS Sirius in the background. Photo by Leading Seaman Tara Byrne.

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Royal Australian Navy launches exercise with TNI-AL

21/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4159 Views 0 Comments

Australia’s key bilateral maritime exercise with Indonesia commenced today in Surabaya, Indonesia. CAPTION: Leading Seaman Jason Griffiths mans the MAG 58

Japanese and Australian soldiers fire artillery in Shoalwater Bay Training Area. Photo by Corporal Tristan Kennedy.

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Australia and Japan strengthen military ties

20/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2467 Views 0 Comments

The Minister of Defense of Japan, Mr. Kono Taro, and Australian Minister for Defence, Senator Linda Reynolds, committed to driving

HMAS Sheean leads MV Mega Bakti and MV Besant to out of Fleet Base West for sea-phase elements of Exercise Pacific Reach 2019. Photo by Petty Officer James Whittle.

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Multi-national submarine-rescue exercise wraps up in WA

18/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3428 Views 0 Comments

A major international submarine search and rescue exercise has concluded off the coast of Western Australia. Exercise Pacific Reach 2019,

An Australian Army Bushmaster conducts tactical mounted manoeuvres with an M113/AS1 from the Tentara Nasional Indonesia Army (TNI-AD) at Dodiklatpur training base, East Java. Photo by Corporal Shane Kelly.

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Bushmasters debut in Indonesian exercise

17/11/201929/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4024 Views 0 Comments

Soldiers from Darwin’s 1st Brigade have travelled to Indonesia to participate in Exercise Wirra Jaya 2019, a bilateral training exercise

HMAS Sirius conducts a dual replenishment at sea with Malaysian ships KD Lekiu and KD Kelantan during her East Asia deployment. Photo by Leading Seaman Tara Byrne.

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HMAS Sirius visits Vietnam

14/11/201914/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2433 Views 0 Comments

Royal Australian Navy replenishment ship HMAS Sirius has arrived in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, as part of Navy’s second East Asia Deployment

Captain Simon Rooke, who will be the Commanding Officer of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s newest ship, Aotearoa, Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy and New Zealand's Chief of Navy Rear Admiral David Proctor at the ship’s naming ceremony at the Hyundai Shipyard in South Korea. RNZDF photo.

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New Zealand’s largest ship christened

26/10/201926/10/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3570 Views 2 Comments

Four of the more important words any Chief of Navy looks forward to hearing during their tenure – “I name

The Vietnam Memorial in Canberra. Photo by Laura Larking.

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Australia supports Vietnam’s MIA recovery efforts

11/09/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2186 Views 0 Comments

As part of the ongoing cooperation between Australia and Vietnam, the Department of Defence has presented the Vietnamese Deputy Minister

No 3 Squadron F/A-18 Hornets taxi at Korat Air Force Base during Exercise Thai Boomerang 2015. Photo by Corporal David Said.

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RAAF on two consecutive exercises in SE Asia

08/09/201908/09/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2727 Views 0 Comments

By Flight Lieutenant Alyssa Vickridge Royal Australian Air Force has deployed more than 120 people and six aircraft from RAAF

Two Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornets take off at Avalon, Victoria. Photo by Corporal Jessica de Rouw.

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Aussie Hornets on first combat exercise in Japan

08/09/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2483 Views 0 Comments

Up to 150 Royal Australian Air Force personnel will participate in the first bilateral air combat exercise between the Royal Australian

Participants in the official Service of Commemoration for those who fought and died in two undeclared wars fought on the Malay Peninsula and in northern Borneo in the 1960s – the Malayan Emergency and the Indonesian Confrontation with Malaysia – at The Heroes’ Cemetery in Kuching, Sarawak. Photos by Major (ret’d) Paul Rosenzweig.

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Malaya-Borneo Veterans commemorate in Sarawak

03/09/201903/09/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4798 Views 0 Comments

A Service of Commemoration was held in the Sarawak Heroes Memorial Park in Kuching on Saturday 29 August to commemorate

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.

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Poseidon deployed on North Korea sanctions

01/09/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2422 Views 0 Comments

Australia is deploying a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to Japan to conduct maritime surveillance in support of the international

Survivors from 5 Platoon, B Company, 3RAR, after the Battle of Maryang San, October 1951. AWM P04953.002

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66th Anniversary Korean War Armistice

27/07/201926/07/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2455 Views 0 Comments

Today marks 66 years since the Korean War Armistice was signed, ending three years of war in Korea. FILE PHOTO:

Australian Army riflemen from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, conduct a simulated assault with United States Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey support at Shoalwater Bay Training Area. Photo by Corporal Tristan Kennedy.

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Southern Jackaroo wraps up tri-lateral exercise

07/06/201902/05/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4255 Views 0 Comments

A two-week military field exercise has been completed this week, with more than 700 Australian Defence Force, United States Marine

HMAS Ships Parramatta, Newcastle, Canberra and Success in formation during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019. Photo by Corporal Kylie Gibson.

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Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019 returns home

26/05/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3995 Views 0 Comments

Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019 (IPE 19) Joint Task Force has returned to Australia following a three-month regional-engagement mission to South and

HMA Ships Canberra and Newcastle sail in company during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019. Photo by Leading Seaman Christopher Szumlanski.

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Task Force visits Indonesia

20/05/201920/05/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2243 Views 0 Comments

The Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019 Joint Task Force has begun its engagement program in Indonesia during the final port visits before

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Australia deploying armistice observers to Korean border

13/05/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2798 Views 0 Comments

Following a request from the United Nations Command, the Australian Defence Force has deployed a small number of military personnel

HMA Ships Newcastle and Canberra underway during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019. (cropped) Photo by Leading Seaman Kylie Jagiello.

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Aussie ships visit Vietnam

07/05/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3367 Views 0 Comments

The Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019 (IPE19) Joint Task Force is continuing its international engagement activities with the arrival of two ships