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1st Combat Signal Regiment

Timor-Leste Defence Force soldiers take part in communications and combat first aid training with Australian Army soldiers from 1st Health Battalion and 1st Combat Signals Regiment in Baucau, Timor-Leste, during Exercise Hari’i Hamutuk. Story and photos by Captain Nicholas Marquis.
Australian Army News Overseas 

Building bonds in Timor-Leste

08/10/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 228 Views 0 Comments 10th Force Support Battalion, 1st Combat Engineer Regimen, 1st Combat Signal Regiment, 1st Health Battalion, Exercise Hari’i Hamutuk, Timor-Leste

More than 250 Australian soldiers worked with personnel from New Zealand, the United States and Japan during a series of Defence

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Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Combat Engineer Regiment, the 1st Battalion, Royal Ghurkha Rifles, and Marine Rotational Force - Darwin conduct an urban clearance serial in the Mount Bundey Training Area, NT. Story by Dan Mazurek. Photo by Captain Annie Richardson.
Australian Army News Overseas 

Exercise flags shift in focus to the Top End

07/06/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 3337 Views 0 Comments 1st Combat Engineer Regimen, 1st Combat Service Support Battalion, 1st Combat Signal Regiment, 5th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, 8th/12th Regiment, Exercise Predator’s Walk, MRF-D, Royal Gurkha Rifles (1RGR), USMC

It’s always a good time to be a soldier in Darwin. CAPTION: Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment,

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Soldiers from Regional Force Surveillance Unit on Operation Resolute, regroup while conducting water patrols on Maret Island remote Western Australia. Story by Captain Lily Charles. Photo by Jarrod McAneney.
Australian Army Australian Border Force News Videos 

New surveillance weapon used on ops for first time

18/11/202222/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2982 Views 0 Comments 10th Force Support Battalion, 1st Combat Signal Regiment, 3rd Battalion RAR, Bluebottle USV, NORFORCE, Operation Resolute

A new type of unmanned surveillance technology was used on Operation Resolute for the first time. CAPTION: Soldiers from Regional

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Corporal Mitchell McLean from the 1st Combat Signal Regiment talks to Casino High School students during a visit to his former school in Casino. Story by Leading Seaman Kylie Jagiello. Photo by Corporal Sagi Biderman.
ADF People 

Back to school for Army corporal

18/03/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2131 Views 0 Comments 1st Combat Signal Regiment, Operation Flood Assist 2022

A self-described troublemaker during high school, when Corporal Mitchell McLean from the 1st Combat Signal Regiment graduated Year 12 and exited

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Corporal Mark Bennett with Rodney Crocker at the Pearl Retirement Village aged-care facility in Darwin. Photo by Corporal Rodrigo Villablanca.
ADF Australian Army News 

Regiment’s bed-making skills ‘too perfect’

17/03/202221/03/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2054 Views 0 Comments 1st Combat Signal Regiment, COVID-19 Assist

Soldiers of the 1st Brigade are used to adapting to new environments. CAPTION: Corporal Mark Bennett with Rodney Crocker at

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