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Japan Self-Defense Force personnel walk from their C-130H Hercules after arriving at RAAF Base Richmond to assist in Operation Bushfire Assist. Photo by David Said.

Japan sending two Hercs for Bushfire Assist

16/01/202017/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3601 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Japan Self Defence Force is sending two C-130 Hercules and associated personnel to assist in Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20.

ADF medical personnel board a Singaporean Chinook at RAAF Base East Sale for a ferry flight to Mallacoota. Singapore Armed Forces photo.

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Singaporean Chooks join the fight from East Sale

11/01/202024/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3648 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Two Singapore Armed Forces CH-47 Chinooks have deployed to RAAF Base East Sale to support bushfire operations in Victoria.

Sergeant Ek Beirut, Royal Thai Navy clearance diver, died of blood infection contracted during the Thai soccer team cave rescue, after 18 months. Photo Royal Thai Navy.

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Royal Thai Navy soccer-team cave-rescuer dies

29/12/201929/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4220 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Thai Navy is mourning the death of Sergeant Beirut Pak Barbara – ‘the hero of the cave’. CAPTION:

Royal Australian Navy sailors on HMAS Diamantina toss lines on approach to the wharf at HMAS Waterhen, Sydney. Photo by Able Seaman Thomas Sawtell.

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Navy mine hunters home after record-breaking deployment

12/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2979 Views 0 Comments

Two Royal Australian Navy minehunters returned home to Sydney in time for Christmas after a successful overseas deployment that saw

Service members and volunteers who helped build air-drop supply bundles at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, for Operation Christmas Drop 2019. US Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Kyle Johnson.

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Operation Christmas Drop all bundled up in Guam

08/12/201908/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2796 Views 0 Comments

Service members from the U.S. Air Force, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (Koku Jietai), Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand

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.

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East Asia Task Group home for Christmas

06/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1919 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 3698 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 4323 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 4275 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 2563 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 3560 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 4129 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 2748 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 3698 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 2279 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 2838 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 2570 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 5139 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 2510 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 2540 Views 0 Comments

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