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Lieutenant Levi Ross on Exercise Gauntlet Strike at Puckapunyal Military Training Area, Victoria. Story by Captain Tom Maclean. Photo by Corporal Robert Whitmore.

ADF People

Tassie tank troop commander graduates

07/07/2021 Posted by Mike Hughes 1511 Views 0 Comments

A young Tasmanian has become one of a handful of junior Australian Army officers to graduate as a new tank troop

ADF personnel assist the police on the NSW and Victoria border as part of Operation COVID-19 Assist. Photo by Petty Officer Jake Badior.

ADF’s NSW/Victoria border operations end

05/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1833 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

After four million vehicle checks on the NSW-Victoria border, JTU 629.1.3 finished its part in Operation COVID-19 Assist on 30 October.

WWII veteran and proud father Segeant Bert Le-Merton was accompanied by his son Trent as he continued his March On Challenge to raise money for veterans and their families.

News Veterans

Happy Father’s Day Sergeant Bert

06/09/202007/09/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3013 Views 0 Comments

WWII veteran and proud father Sergeant Bert Le-Merton accompanied by his son Trent on Fathers’ Day during his 96km March On fundraiser.

Australian News Sergeant Bert Veterans

Meet Australia’s own fund-raising legend walker

14/08/202004/09/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3780 Views 1 Comment

Australia is about to be introduced to it very own World War II fund-raising walking legend – in the sprightly form of Sergeant Bert.

Navy personnel help members of the NSW Police Force on the NSW-Victoria border as part of Operation COVID-19 Assist. Photo by Petty Officer Jake Badior.

ADF Australian News Royal Australian Navy

Landlocked sailors get dumped with snow

28/07/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2406 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Heavy snow was a highlight for many of the 120 Royal Australian Navy personnel deployed on Operation COVID-19 Assist in NSW Alpine regions this week.

ADF Australian News

On first deployment – straight out of Kapooka

22/07/202022/07/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3080 Views 0 Comments

Private Zach Rohrlach was one of 20 soldiers who just marched out at Kapooka when they were deployed on Operation COVID-19 Assist.

Chaplain Derek Croser with Jodie Meikle, Steven Childs – and 'the bed'.

Australian Australian Army News Operations

RAEME mafia steal farmer’s bed in dead of night

14/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8705 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Army was recently thanked for successfully completing a very unusual midnight raid in front of bushfire-enemy lines on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

An uncrewed aerial system navigates the urban-style challenge course during the Rise of the Drones finals at Victoria Barracks in Sydney. Story by Captain Andrew Lee. Photo by Private C.

Australian Army News Science & Technology

Next-generation drone pilots face off at comp

19/12/202519/12/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 996 Views 0 Comments Army Battle Lab, first-person view drones (FPVD), MakerSpace, Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)

Army’s newest drone and robotics talent went head-to-head at Victoria Barracks last month in the finals of Rise of the

An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams main battle tank fires its 120mm cannon during a live-fire serial for the Coral-Balmoral Cup at Puckapunyal Military Area. Story by Captain Thomas Kaye. Photos by Corporal Johnny Huang.

Letters to the Editor

Where will the hurt be felt most?

22/10/202522/10/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 878 Views 1 Comment

Making 1st Armoured Regiment a non-combatant was something managed very closely by Defence. Complaints from the unit itself had to

Australian Army soldier Corporal Angus Pugney, of the 4th Health Battalion, conducts patient extraction winch training as part of Exercise Helicon Luk 2025 in PNG. Story by Captain Tadek Markowski. Photos by Corporal Dana Millington.

Australian Army News Overseas

Army’s first responders practise their craft

17/10/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1598 Views 0 Comments 4th Health Battalion, 5th Aviation Regiment, CH-47F Chinook, Exercise Helicon Luk, PNG, PNGDF

When the ADF is called upon to undertake humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, it’s often Army’s workhorse helicopter, the CH-47F

An Australian Army soldier from 1st Armoured Regiment demonstrates hyper-teaming with uncrewed aerial systems on Project Convergence Capstone 5 at Fort Irwin, California, on 11 March 2025. Photo by Corporal Nakia Chapman.

Letters to the Editor

A Battle Laboratory AND a Combat Experimentation Group – why?

10/10/202510/10/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 885 Views 0 Comments

Most of us thought, based on information from the Chief of Defence Force, that 1st Armoured Regiment had been specially

Australian Army personnel from the 4th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, join PNG Defence Force members in a ceremonial gun salute during the Fleet Review at APEC Haus, Port Moresby. Story by Captain Katy Manning. Photos by Corporal Jack Pearce.

News Overseas Royal Australian Navy

Fleet review, open day salute PNG independence

05/09/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 6838 Views 0 Comments 4th Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, HMAS Childers, HMAS Choules, PNG

Thousands lined the waterfront at APEC Haus in Port Moresby this week as naval crews stood to attention and ships

Sapper Jeirome Auda-Muckan is using his carpentry skills to construct a community hall on Erub Island, Torres Strait, as part of the Army Ailan (Aboriginal) Assistance Program. Story by Captain Joanne Leca. Photos by Corporal L Warwick.

Australian Army News

Sapper gives back to his island home

03/09/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3333 Views 0 Comments 6th Engineer Support Regiment, AACAP

A soldier has returned to familiar faces of his childhood home to build stronger futures through the Army Ailan (Aboriginal)

Members on the Tactical Rope Rescue Instructors’ Training Course practise a simulated casualty rescue at Holsworthy Training Area. Story by Major Peter Nugent. Photos by Corporal Robert Whitmore.

Australian Army News Videos

Learning the ropes to save lives

12/08/202512/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 7790 Views 0 Comments Holsworthy Barracks

If you ever have the misfortune of finding yourself stuck at the bottom of a cliff, look up … you

Australian Army AH-64E Apache pilots, Captain Craig Burger, left, and Captain Jonathan Hogan, at the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence, in Alabama. Story by Captain Jonathan Hogan. Photos supplied.

Australian Army News USA

The art of teaching Apache – an aviator’s experience

07/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2894 Views 0 Comments 1st Aviation Regiment, AH-64E Apache, US Army

Australian Army pilot Captain Jonathan Hogan describes his training as an instructor on the Apache attack helicopter in Alabama. CAPTION: Australian

United States Army paratroopers from the 11th Airborne Division conduct a night airborne insertion from a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III over Charters Towers. Story by Corporal Luke Bellman. Photos by Corporal Emma Schwenke.

News Royal Australian Air Force

Allied paratroopers own the night

18/07/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2315 Views 0 Comments C-17A Globemaster III, Exercise Talisman Sabre, French Armed Forces, German Army, Joint Forcible Entry Operation (JFEO), US Army

Three-hundred-and-thirty-five US paratroopers dropped into Charters Towers under the cover of night, exploiting allied night vision capabilities to launch a