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RNZDF Air Transport team get down to work in Middle East

23/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3495 Views 0 Comments Middle East, RNZAF

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft has completed its first set of sustainment flights to Afghanistan

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File photo - 2FTS perform a 26-aircraft thunderbird formation during a pilot-course graduation. Photographer unknown
New Zealand News Overseas 

Kiwis learn to fly in Australia

15/06/201615/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3379 Views 0 Comments pilot training

New Zealand and Australian Air Force links are now even tighter after four Royal New Zealand Air Force pilots graduated

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A New Zealand member of Task Group Taji, Training Task Unit supervises urban combat training for members of Iraq's 92nd Brigade at Taji Military Camp.
Australian New Zealand News Operations 

Nearly 7000 Iraqi soldiers now trained by ANZACs

09/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4411 Views 0 Comments Task Group Taji

Around 300 Iraqi soldiers have just completed a six-week training course at Camp Taji bringing the total number of Iraqi

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HMNZS Otago
New Zealand News Overseas 

HMNZS Otago out for two-month fisheries patrol

05/06/201609/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5540 Views 0 Comments

The Royal New Zealand Navy offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Otago will sail from the Devonport Naval Base at 4pm today,

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The Department of Conservation working alongside 5 Movements Company, New Zealand Army, and 3 Sqn, Royal New Zealand Air Force to shift Fell Hut, in the Richmond Ranges to a new site. The hut required moving as it was sitting on a slow moving landslip. 5 Moves company worked alongside DOC to prepare the hut for the shift, which occured by being slung under the NH90 Helicopter.
New Zealand News Overseas 

RNZAF called in for special house removal

03/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4510 Views 0 Comments Department of Conservation (DoC), Mount Richmond, Mt Fell, Royal New Zealand Air Force

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) NH90 medium utility helicopter has shifted a 1700kg Department of Conservation (DoC) hut

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File photo – NZAF C-130 Hercules coming in to land at Bamyan Airfield, Afghanistan.
New Zealand News Overseas 

New Zealand Hercules to join Aussie ME task force

03/06/201609/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4800 Views 1 Comment Hercules, RNZAF

The New Zealand Defence Force is deploying a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H(NZ) Hercules aircraft and up to 40

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Kiwis on board for South-Pacific Mercy mission
New Zealand News Overseas 

Kiwis on board for South-Pacific Mercy mission

02/06/201609/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3631 Views 2 Comments Pacific Partnership, USNS Mercy

Nine New Zealand Defence Force personnel have embarked on the US naval hospital ship USNS Mercy as they take part

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HMNZS Te Kaha heads for Sydney for pre-RIMPAC training.
New Zealand News Overseas 

Kiwis to play big role at RIMPAC 2016

02/06/201602/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4514 Views 0 Comments RIMPAC

The New Zealand Defence Force is sending ships, aircraft and personnel to take part in the world’s largest international maritime

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The New Zealand Operational Service Medal (left) and the New Zealand General Service Medal with clasp “Vietnam” (right).
New Zealand News Overseas Veterans 

NZ entertainers to receive Vietnam medals

01/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5082 Views 0 Comments Herewini Selwyn Rawiri, New Zealand General Service Medal, New Zealand Operational Service Medal

New Zealand entertainers who entertained Allied troops during the Vietnam War may now be eligible for medallic recognition through the

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NZAF NH90
New Zealand News Overseas 

NZDF search for missing pig hunter

01/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3388 Views 0 Comments NH90, pig hunter

The New Zealand Defence Force has deployed a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) NH90 helicopter to support the Police’s

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HMS New Zealand
New Zealand News Overseas Veterans 

Battle of Jutland Centenary Commemorations

27/05/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4434 Views 0 Comments Battle of Jutland

On 31 May 2016, events over land and sea in New Zealand and the United Kingdom will mark the 100th anniversary

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Personnel from the building partner capacity mission in Iraq return to Ohakea Air Force Base.
New Zealand News Operations Overseas 

Second Kiwi Iraq rotation welcomed home

26/05/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3362 Views 0 Comments Iraq

About 70 New Zealand Defence Force soldiers deployed to help train Iraqi Security Forces returned home just a few hours

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New Zealand News Overseas 

NZDF Orion logs second SAR success in 5 days

18/05/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3772 Views 0 Comments P-3K2

A New Zealand Defence Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft today clocked up a second successful search and rescue mission for the

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NZDF photo
New Zealand News Overseas 

NZAF Orion finds Kiribati fishermen missing a week

15/05/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3058 Views 0 Comments Kiribati fishermen, P-3K2 Orion

  A New Zealand Defence Force P-3K2 Orion has found three Kiribati fishermen missing since the morning of 7 May

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New Zealand News Overseas 

New Zealand Army Band plays for Queen at Windsor

13/05/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4669 Views 0 Comments New Zealand Army band, Prince Phillip, Queen, Windsor

By special request of the Queen, the New Zealand Army Band [file photo] has performed before her and Prince Philip

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New Zealand Army soldiers provide force protection during the mission rehearsal exercise for Task Group Taji 3 at RAAF Base Edinburgh. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Operations Overseas 

Third Kiwi Iraq contingent train in Oz

12/05/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4783 Views 0 Comments Taji

The third rotation of around 100 New Zealand troops to the Building Partner Capacity mission in Iraq is looking forward

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The 40 Squadron contingent in front of the C-130 Hercules, with support personnel in the back (maintenance, mission planning team, observers, intelligence, and air load team).
New Zealand News Overseas 

NZ crew take “Top Cat” award on Green Flag

08/05/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4403 Views 0 Comments 40 Sqn, Green Flag, Top Cat

A C-130 Hercules crew from the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) was judged the top performing crew in a

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Anzac Day wreath laying. ADF file photo
CONTACT BLOG SPOT New Zealand Thought provoking Veterans 

What are Kiwis doing here on ANZAC Day?

22/04/201610/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3934 Views 0 Comments Kiwi ANZAC Day

After reading your reply in Facebook re the “Is ANZAC Day not taught in schools or what?” post. I have humbly

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New Zealand News Operations Overseas 

Third NZ Taji contingent headed for Oz for training

16/04/201616/04/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4830 Views 0 Comments Taji

The third rotation of New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel bound for Task Group Taji in Iraq departed from Christchurch Airport yesterday for

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An SH-2G(NZ) Seasprite helicopters assisting with cyclone-recovery operations in Fiji.
New Zealand News Overseas Science & Technology 

NZDF sticks with Seasprite – upgrading to new model

14/04/201614/04/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4010 Views 0 Comments Seasprite

The retirement of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Seasprite SH-2G(NZ) naval helicopters was marked today as part of a

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