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Aviators from RAAF Base Pearce take part in the inaugural Goggins’ Challenge, raising $7400 for mental health. Story by Flying Officer Stina Frantzich Gardiner. Photo by Sergeant Joshua Mulligan.

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Aviators raise $7400 for mental health

18/11/202518/11/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 533 Views 0 Comments 2 Flying Training School, mental health, No 79 Squadron, No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, No. 25 Squadron

RAAF Base Pearce personnel have gone the distance for mental health, raising $7400 in 48 hours for the Black Dog

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Sergeant Deborah Williamson, right, receives the McCarthy Rowbottom Jones Memorial Award by Group Captain John Rollo. Story by Corporal Melina Young.

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Taking the pain out of going to the dentist

05/07/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1883 Views 0 Comments No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, RAAF Tindal

Aviators at RAAF Base Tindal needing wisdom teeth removed can thank Sergeant Deborah Williamson for eliminating the 700km round trip

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Squadron Leader Martin Copland at the end of the 155 Pilot’s Course in 1991. It was the last course to use the Macchi jet. Story by Flying Officer Wendy Pyper.

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A career with altitude

28/06/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1688 Views 0 Comments No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, RAAF Reserve

Fifty years ago, Squadron Leader Martin Copland was six years old and oblivious to the disaster about to unfold in

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Dental officer Flight Lieutenant Alexis Dieu, left, and dental assistant Leading Aircraftwoman Ocean Mitchell, both from 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, treat a patient at Wadeye, NT, during a remote NT Health dental visit. Story by Flight Lieutenant Claire Campbell. Photo by Flight Lieutenant Yuen Dieu.

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Returning bright smiles to remote communities

27/10/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1214 Views 0 Comments No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron

At times, they were the only dental service for 100 kilometres – Air Force personnel from the Northern Territory (NT)

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Australian and New Zealand environmental health team members, from left, Lieutenant Christopher Buerkeman, Flight Lieutenant Michael Hong and Flying Officer Kimi Ahluwalia assess potability of local drinking water. Story by Flight Lieutenant Vernon Pather. Photo by Leading Seaman Nadav Harel.

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NZ and Aussie health teams combine after Cyclone Gabrielle

22/03/202324/03/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1923 Views 0 Comments Cyclone Gabrielle, New Zealand, No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron

Two environmental health officers (EHO) joined forces with the New Zealand Army Force Health Protection Team while supporting the response

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Royal Australian Air Force Corporal Simone Menzel, a medical technician from No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, at RAAF Base Darwin during Exercise Pitch Black 2022. Story by Flight Lieutenant Jessica Winnall. Photo by Corporal Kylie Gibson.

Health and Wellbeing News Royal Australian Air Force

Medical team ready to respond

07/09/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2041 Views 0 Comments Exercise Pitch Black, French Air and Space Force, No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, RAAF Darwin

No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron have been well-equipped to provide emergency medical service to the 16 visiting nations at Exercise

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