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Australian News Veterans 

Easier health-care access for MRCA vets

06/12/201906/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2316 Views 0 Comments

Veterans who currently have to pay for their medical treatment up-front and wait to be reimbursed will only need to

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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.
Asia Australian News Overseas Royal Australian Navy 

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

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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.
Asia Australian Australian Army News 

Bruneian soldiers finish exercising in Brisbane

06/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3693 Views 0 Comments

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

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Two PC-21 aircraft from Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU). Photo by Sergeant Shane Gidall.
Australian News Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF welcomes final PC-21 to East Sale

06/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3879 Views 0 Comments

The final aircraft from the Air Force Pilatus PC-21 fleet has been officially welcomed at Royal Australian Air Force Base

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Free Christmas lunch in Brisbane
Australian News Veterans What's on... 

Free Christmas lunch in Brisbane

05/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1766 Views 0 Comments

Wounded Heroes Australia is offering free Christmas lunch to current ADF and former ADF members in the Brisbane area who

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Commodore Melissa Ross with Chief of Navy Rear Admiral David Proctor after her promotion ceremony.
New Zealand News Overseas 

First female Commodore and Deputy Chief RNZN

05/12/201906/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3118 Views 0 Comments

In 1996, Melissa Ross broke new ground as one of the first women to serve on a Royal New Zealand

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Royal New Zealand Air Force's Black Falcons aerobatic display team for 2020. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Overseas 

New RNZAF Black Falcons aerobatic display team announced

04/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3464 Views 0 Comments

The Royal New Zealand Air Force Black Falcons aerobatic display team has been announced for the 2020 air display season,

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Australian News Veterans 

Julie-Ann Finney gets Labor on side

03/12/201903/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1967 Views 0 Comments

Labor has thrown its support behind Julie-Ann Finney’s campaign for a Royal Commission into the veteran suicide rate in Australia.

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David Savage, right, lies injured on the ground after the blast that nearly killed him in the Chora Valley, Afghanistan, in 2012. Photo supplied by David Savage to the ABC.
ADF Australian Middle East News Operations Veterans 

Civilian wounded in Afghanistan tells ABC the ADF blamed him in ‘coverup’

03/12/201903/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3219 Views 0 Comments

Tonight at 7.30 on the ABC, reporter Dylan Welch will present a story in which he claims that an ADF

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Raytheon image
News Science & Technology USA 

Raytheon unveils laptop-driven-VR soldier training

03/12/201903/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2400 Views 1 Comment

Raytheon unveiled a new immersive military training product today at I/ITSEC, the world’s largest modelling, simulation and training event. Raytheon

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Emergency Service personnel from across Australia receive a brief on the thermal imagery capability of the ARH-Tiger helicopter as aircraft from the Army School of Aviation continue to provide specialised reconnaissance support to help identify and combat the bushfires in the Yeppoon Area. Photo by Trooper Jonathan Goedhart.
Australian Australian Army News 

Tiger’s recce role in Queensland fires

02/12/201916/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1765 Views 0 Comments

As a part of wider effort, military members from the Australian Army’s 7th Brigade and 16th Aviation Brigade deployed in

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Soldiers from the 2RAR mentor soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines on weapon-handling drills in Pagadian, Philippines. Photo by Corporal Jessica de Rouw.
ADF Australian News Operations Pacific 

Augury-Philippines transitions to higher level

02/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2606 Views 0 Comments

The Australian Defence Force has taken the next step in its enduring relationship with the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

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A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules loads 50,000 measles and rubella vaccines in Nadi, Fiji. Photo by Infinity Images Fiji for UNICEF.
New Zealand News Overseas Pacific 

NZDF helps Samoa fight measles epidemic

02/12/201902/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1852 Views 0 Comments

The New Zealand Defence Force is providing logistics support to a New Zealand government response to a Samoan measles epidemic.

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Julie-Ann Finney meets Prime Minister Scott Morrison and newly returned Senator Jim Molan at Parliament House, Canberra.
Australian News Veterans 

PM still considering (but no decision on) Royal Commission into vet suicides

02/12/201915/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2521 Views 0 Comments

Julie-Ann Finney, bereaved mother of former sailor Dave Finney who lost his life to suicide, met Prime Minister Scott Morrison

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Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel Darren Chester with members of the Open Arms Community and Peer Program during their induction training in Canberra. Photo supplied.
Australian News Veterans 

Open Arms Community and Peer Program expands nationally

01/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2310 Views 0 Comments

Support for veterans and their families who may be struggling with mental-health conditions will be enhanced through a new program

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CONTACT 64 out now
Archives News 

CONTACT 64 – OUT NOW

30/11/201929/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 7145 Views 0 Comments

CONTACT Air Land & Sea magazine Issue 64…read it right here…     . . If you prefer to download

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Defence personnel, family members and guests at the inaugural Fleet Base West Photographic Competition awards ceremony at the Gary Hall Community Centre, Rockingham, Western Australia. Photo by Leading Seaman Ernesto Sanchez.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

Inaugural Fleet Base West Photography Competition

29/11/201929/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2199 Views 0 Comments

The inaugural Fleet Base West Photography Competition saw more than 100 entries from budding photographers that captured the ‘People, Places

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NZDF Personnel deployed on the ninth rotation of Op Manawa to Camp Taji are welcomed home after six months away from friends and family. NZDF photo.
Middle East New Zealand News Operations 

NZDF’s second-last Taji rotation welcomed home

29/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2071 Views 0 Comments

The New Zealand Defence Force last night welcomed home the second-last contingent of personnel who have been serving as part of

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Lunch-box sized satellites (cubesats) for the Buccaneer and Biarri space missions. ADF image.
Australian News Science & Technology 

South Australian tech company wins Defence satellite contract

29/11/201929/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2029 Views 0 Comments

A small South Australian space technology company has beaten international competition to win a $2.5m Defence contract. FILE IMAGE: Lunch-box sized

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Five KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport aircraft from No 33 Squadron on taxiway Alpha at RAAF Base Amberley. Photo by Sergeant Peter Borys.
Australian News Royal Australian Air Force 

KC-30As ‘elephant walk’ at Amberley

29/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2983 Views 0 Comments

On 15 November 2019, No. 33 Squadron prepared five of its KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transports for launch at the same

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