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A RAAF P-8A Poseidon participates in a maritime cooperative activity with Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Hobart, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship Akizuki, Philippine Navy ship BRP Jose Rizal and US Navy ship USS Benfold. Story by Lieutenant Harrison Thomas. Photo by Leading Seaman Iggy Roberts.
News Overseas Royal Australian Navy 

Places to go, counterparts to see

05/03/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1292 Views 0 Comments Exercise La Perouse, HMAS Hobart, P-8A Poseidon, Regional Presence Deployment, Royal Navy, US Air Force

The first regional presence deployment (RPD) for 2025 has opened HMAS Hobart to a number of training opportunities with counterparts from

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Sailors from Australia, the USA and the UK work together to develop effective undersea domain dominance during a trilateral exercise in Norfolk, Virginia. Story by Commander Ian Jackson.
News Royal Australian Navy USA 

Working to protect undersea infrastructure

14/02/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1349 Views 0 Comments AUKUS, Royal Navy, US Navy

Royal Australian Navy deployable undersea warfare forces have joined the US Navy and Royal Navy in furthering subsea and seabed

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Captain Brett Westcott and members of the catafalque party attend the anniversary memorial service for the sinking of HMAS Canberra 1. Story. by Lieutenant Angela Faulkner.
History Lest We Forget News Royal Australian Navy 

Battle of Savo Island service honours courage and sacrifice

30/08/202431/08/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1527 Views 0 Comments HMAS Canberra (I), Royal Navy, US Navy, WWII

On August 9, 1942, HMAS Canberra I was hit 24 times in less than two minutes, resulting in the loss

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Royal Navy's dental surgeon Lieutenant Grace Smalley, left, and dental nurse Able Rate Jamie Shand, both from 40 Commando, perform a dental examination on an Australian Army soldier during Exercise Predator's Run at the Bradshaw Field Training Area. Story and photo by Sergeant Matthew Bickerton.
ADF People Australian Army Health and Wellbeing 

Keeping digger’s bite to stay in the fight

16/08/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1133 Views 0 Comments Exercise Predator’s Run, Royal Navy

Gum pain or toothache can impact your ability to fight, reducing focus and resolve. CAPTION: Royal Navy’s dental surgeon Lieutenant Grace

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Commanding Officer of HMAS Choules Commander Arron Convery salutes HMS Tamar after successful Officer Of the Watch manoeuvres. Photo by Able Seaman Lucinda Allanson.
News Overseas Royal Australian Navy 

Aussies exercise with UK and Japan off Fiji

09/07/202414/07/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1333 Views 0 Comments HMAS Choules, Japan Maritime Self Defence Force, Regional Presence Deployment, Royal Navy, Tonga

One of the Royal Australian Navy’s largest ships, HMAS Choules, recently participated in training exercises with warships from the United

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Rear Admiral Lincoln Reifsteck, US Navy, presents Commander Daniel McCall, Royal Australian Navy, with a citation that accompanies the US Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.
ADF People Royal Australian Navy 

Submariner’s accomplishments commended

23/02/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2013 Views 0 Comments AUKUS, Nuclear Powered Submarines, Royal Navy, US Navy

Two years since completing an exchange posting aboard a US Navy nuclear-powered submarine, an Australian submariner received the United States

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The Defence Forces Dental Services Meeting at Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney. Photo by Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman.
Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

Fit to bite, fit to fight

13/10/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1633 Views 0 Comments Defence Forces Dental Services (SDFDS), Royal Navy, US Army

The use of technology and the impact of increasing sugar consumption were on the agenda when dentists from defence forces

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Marine technicians Able Seaman Liam Duncan (left) and Leading Seaman Aaron Dabinet work on one of HMAS Anzac’s capstans control panels during a scheduled maintenance period in Sembwang, Singapore. Story by Lieutenant Max Logan. Photo by Leading Seaman Jarryd Capper.
News Overseas Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Anzac’s Singapore pitstop

14/07/202319/07/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1484 Views 0 Comments C-17A Globemaster III, HMAS Anzac, No. 816 Squadron (RAN), Royal Navy, Singapore

There was more than meets the eye to a scheduled maintenance period for HMAS Anzac alongside at the Sembawang Naval

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USNS Rappahannock, left, conducts a replenishment at sea with HMAS Hobart during Exercise Keen Sword. Story by Lieutenant Brendan Trembath. Photo by Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman.
Japan News Royal Australian Navy UK USA 

Exercise Keen Sword demonstrates joint integration

25/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 1568 Views 0 Comments Exercise Keen Sword, HMAS Hobart, Japan Maritime Self Defence Force, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, US Navy

Destroyer HMAS Hobart participated in high-end warfighting exercises off southern Japan with ships and submarines from the US Navy, Japan

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Royal Australian Navy pilot Lieutenant Dan Cochrane, left, and the Royal Navy Merlin Mark 2 helicopter crew that rescued a kayaker off Cornwall in southern England. Story by Graeme Wilkinson, Acting Public Relations Officer, Royal Navy. Photo by Royal Navy.
ADF People 

Aussie in unplanned UK rescue mission

08/02/202212/02/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2973 Views 1 Comment Royal Navy

A Royal Australian Navy officer on a training exercise in the UK found himself in the middle of a real-life

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HMS Protector during her ice-breaking transit through the Ross Sea. Quad copter photo by Leading Seaman Sam Brown and Richard Walton. © Crown copyright 2016
Europe News Overseas 

Royal Navy’s ice-patrol ship completed historic Antarctic patrol

27/01/201616/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3991 Views 0 Comments HMS Protector, Royal Navy, Shackleton

The Royal Navy’s ice-patrol ship recently completed an historic five-week patrol to the East Antarctic and Ross Sea. HMS Protector is

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