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1st Commando Regiment

A special warfare operator from 2nd Commando Company, 1st Commando Regiment, fires an AK-47 rifle during foreign weapons training in Melbourne. Story and photo by Lieutenant S.
Australian Army News 

Commandos come to grips with foreign weapons

02/08/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 3615 Views 0 Comments 1st Commando Regiment, Fort Gellibrand, special warfare

Integrating with partner forces throughout the Indo-Pacific region is one of many special warfare tasks assigned to the 1st Commando

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Special operations first-aid course participants assess a casualty role-player and prepare for field medical care under the supervision of Australian and American directing staff. (Images have been digitally altered for security purposes.). Story by Major N.
Australian Army Health and Wellbeing News 

Course builds special forces capability

17/04/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2640 Views 0 Comments 1st Commando Regiment

1st Commando Regiment completed its inaugural special operations first-aid course recently, to enable special warfare operators to develop the skills

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An Australian Army special operations force soldier studies Tok Pisin during language training at the ADF School of Special Operations at Holsworthy Barracks in Sydney. Photo by Corporal Dustin Anderson.
Australian Army News 

Special-ops students immerse in language lessons

24/11/202328/11/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 2990 Views 0 Comments 1st Commando Regiment, ADF School of Special Operations (ADFSSO), Australian Defence Force School of Languages, PNGDF

Two Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) soldiers flew in to Sydney to bolster the depth of ADF School of

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ADF commandos came to the aid of a burning vessel in in Port Phillip Bay. Story by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
Australian Army News 

Commandos first on rescue scene

07/06/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 3102 Views 0 Comments 1st Commando Regiment, Zodiac

It was “just another day in the water” for three commandos who were first responders to a ship fire in

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