HMAS STIRLING Dental Officer, Commander Mark Brazier, conducts a routine check up on a patient with Able Seaman Dental Assistant Katrina Martin in the Fleet Base West Dental Department at HMAS Stirling.
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Personnel prepare for the long flight on board the C-17 Globemaster at RAAF Base Amberley shortly before leaving for Pakistan. AusAID and ADF specialist medical and engineering personnel as well as aid and emergency stores are to deploy via C-17 to provide emergency medical and health support to the victims of the Pakistan floods.
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AURORA AUSTRALIS TRAINING CRUISE TO MACQUARIE ISLAND Seaman Medic Danielle Dickinson, takes a blood pressure reading from a patient for their annual medical, onboard the RSV Aurora Australis. Thirty-one trainees from various categories of employment within the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) are on board the RSV *Aurora Australis* for an Antarctic trip-of-a-lifetime. The group, which includes Marine Technicians, Medics, and Communications Information Systems sailors under-training, ten General Experience ‘Gap Year’ sailors, and their supervisors, are sailing on the RAN leased P&O Icebreaker *Aurora Australis* to Macquarie Island, located in the subantarctic region, north of the Antarctic continent. The voyage is being conducted to pick up a group of Australian Antarctic Division employees who have been stationed at the world heritage listed island to carry out pest eradication activities. It will give the Navy’s embarked trainees the experience of serving in extreme weather and oceanic conditions, rarely ever seen by Navy personnel.
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Seaman Medic Adrian Argall onboard HMAS NEWCASTLE, applies an oxygen mask onto a ‘Casualty’ during a medical training exercise
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OPERATION CATALYST Photo by: CPL Michael Davis Major Christopher Cunneen, the Overwatch Battle Group (West)-4 Doctor, treats an Iraqi man at the Al Islah medical centre during the Medical Civil Action Program. TITLE: Medics assist at Al Islah Gallery Number 2008-S0485
