Townsville Field Training Area Archives - CONTACT magazine

Soldiers conduct moving grenade drills at Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland. Story by Captain Brittany Evans. Photos by Trooper Dana Millington.

Australian Army News

Lobbing grenades in Townsville

23/02/202424/02/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1508 Views 0 Comments 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, grenade, Townsville Field Training Area

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, (1RAR) conducted static and moving grenade live-fire training at the Townsville Field

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Australian Army riflemen from Battle Group Heeler deliver ammunition in a simulated urban assault during Exercise Southern Jackaroo, Townsville Field Training Area. Story by Major Roger Brennan. All photos by Corporal Nicole Dorrett.

Australian Army News Videos

Souther Jackaroo tests forces ahead of Talisman Sabre

07/07/202314/07/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 2137 Views 0 Comments 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, 7th Brigade, Diamond Strike, Exercise Southern Jackaroo, Exercise Talisman Sabre, Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF), MRF-D, Townsville Field Training Area, USMC

As dawn broke across the Townsville Field Training Area, marines from the US Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) heard

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Singapore Army soldiers demonstrate urban assault techniques at the Shoalwater Bay training area, Queensland, during Exercise Trident in November 2014.

Australian miscellaneous News

Backflip on compulsory land acquisitions

07/02/201707/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5070 Views 0 Comments compulsory land acquisition, Shoalwater Bay, Singapore Military Training Agreement, Townsville Field Training Area

Minister for Defence Marise Payne today confirmed that Defence will only purchase land from willing sellers around Shoalwater Bay Training

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Singapore Army soldiers demonstrate urban assault techniques at the Shoalwater Bay training area. Photo by Corporal David Cotton.

Australian miscellaneous News

186 farms in Defence’s sights – Minister’s request for expediency ignored

24/01/201724/01/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5737 Views 1 Comment compulsory land acquisition, Shoalwater Bay, Singapore Military Training Agreement, Townsville Field Training Area

Yesterday, CONTACT published a piece about how ‘dozens’ of farmers with property adjoining Defence training areas near Rockhampton and Townsville

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Singapore Army soldiers demonstrate urban assault techniques at Shoalwater Bay Training Area. File photo by Corporal David Cotton.

Australian miscellaneous News

Minister confirms compulsory land acquisitions for Singapore training

23/01/201724/01/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8407 Views 0 Comments compulsory land acquisition, Shoalwater Bay, Singapore Military Training Agreement, Townsville Field Training Area

On 13 October last year Defence Minister Marise Payne announced that she had signed a Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Military Training And

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Singapore Army soldiers demonstrate urban assault techniques at Shoalwater Bay Training Area. File photo by Corporal David Cotton.

Australian miscellaneous News Overseas

Aussie and Singapore DefMins visit Townsville

14/10/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4657 Views 0 Comments High Range, Shoalwater Bay, Singapore, Townsville Field Training Area

Minister for Defence Marise Payne and her counterpart Singapore Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen visited Townsville and met with local

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