Flag comes down, soldiers come home
The Australian flag descended at Combined Joint Task Force – Middle East in Kuwait for the final time in December,
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Task Group Taji
Op Okra proved worth of combined-arms training
A decade ago, Daesh seized large territories across north-western Iraq and eastern Syria, taking advantage of the Syrian civil war
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Sub-lieutenant captures history
After more than 10 years, the last ADF servicemen and women deployed under Operation Okra left the Middle East late
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HQJOC doubles original workforce
The first tranche of expansion at HQJOC near Bungendore, to support the doubling of the facility’s original capacity, is about to commence.
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Bookworm keeps lines of communication open
Self-proclaimed bookworm Sig Jacob Gatehouse has gone from reading military history to creating a chapter of his own while deployed to Iraq.
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Artist sees through Iraq deployment
Imagery is so much part of one officer’s life that when the X-rays of his ‘day job’ get put to bed, the brush and paints of his passion come out to play.
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Old warrior holds court in a biblical land
On New Year’s Eve, smoke wafted from a pipe at the Taji Military Complex north of Baghdad to mark another year gone and a new one’s beginning.
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Iran fires ‘more than a dozen missiles’ at coalition forces in Iraq
The Pentagonsays that at 1.30am local on 7 January, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq.
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Task Group Taji 9 home in time for Christmas
Around 250 Australian Defence Force members from Task Group Taji Rotation 9 have returned home in time for Christmas following
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Iraqi forward observers test skills in live air-strike exercise
By CAPT Anna-Lise Brink During a live fire training exercise at the Besmayah Range Complex in Iraq, Iraqi Army Forward
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TG Taji Rotation 8 on the move
About 90 New Zealand Defence Force troops left home yesterday to begin their six-month rotation withTask Group Taji, the training
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Task Group Taji boosts local-trainer capacity
The New Zealand Defence Force’s combined training mission with Australia in Iraq has helped boost the capacity of the Iraqi
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NZ KIA soldier honoured in Taji medical centre
The resuscitation bay at the medical centre in Iraq’s Camp Taji has been named after Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, New
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Father, daughter on operations in the Middle East
By Captain Anna-Lise Brink While oceans separate most families when a loved one deploys overseas, one Brisbane father and daughter
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New Zealand soldiers train Iraqis in rural combat
New Zealand Defence Force troops are training Iraqi forces how to operate in a rural environment as remnants of Islamic
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Kiwis/Aussies reach new training milestone in Iraq
Australian and New Zealand military personnel from Task Group Taji have now trained more than 30,000 Iraqi Security Forces (ISF)
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Task Group Taji 5 complete deployment in Iraq
More than 300 Australian Defence Force personnel from Task Group Taji 5 are returning to Australia in time for Christmas,
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6th Kiwi Taji rotation head to Australia
The sixth rotation of 108 Kiwi troops for Task Group Taji are tonight in Townsville after being farewelled from New
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ANZACs add night fighting to Iraqi Army training
The combined Australian and New Zealand task force in Iraq has begun taking the skills of Iraqi soldiers to another
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Task Group Taji 4 home from Iraq
About 300 Australian Defence Force personnel deployed to Operation OKRA either have or are about to return to Australia after
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