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Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, support the Queensland Police Service with door-knocking during severe weather in Townsville. Story by Major Diana Jennings. Photos by Corporal Riley Blennerhassett.
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Personnel wade in to assist during Qld flooding

04/02/202508/02/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1230 Views 0 Comments 3 RAR, 3rd Brigade, DACC

As residents in far-north Queensland braced for flooding in the wake of heavy rainfall and damaging winds, Army personnel from

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Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and Queensland Police Service Officer Tony Hoise patrol through Charters Towers in Queensland, during Exercise Brolga Run 2022. Story by Major Megan McDermott. Photo by Gunner Gregory Scott.
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‘Evacuating’ a gold mining town

22/07/202222/07/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2565 Views 1 Comment 3 RAR, 3rd Brigade

Charters Towers is a long way from Afghanistan, but lessons learnt by Australian soldiers assisting evacuees in Kabul last year

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Australian Army soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and 1st Military Police Battalion participate in a population protection control course at Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland. Story by Captain Diana Jennings. Photo by Corporal Daniel Sallai.
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Turning up the heat in training

01/07/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2286 Views 1 Comment 1st Military Police Battalion, 3 RAR, Military Working Dogs

Molotov cocktails, rowdy crowds and canines chomping at the bit set the scene for population protection and control (PPC) training

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A soldier from 3 RAR fires a Javelin FGM-148 direct fire, guided weapon system during Exercise Kapyong Warrior. Story by Captain Diana Jennings. Photo by Corporal Dustin Anderson.
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Soldiers flex lethal muscle

01/07/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2223 Views 3 Comments 3 RAR, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Exercise Kapyong Warrior, Javelin FGM-148

Clandestine, agile and lethal are the words to describe the soldiers who executed live-fire anti-armour stalks using direct-fire support weapons (DFSW)

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