Image Gallery: March 2004
Exercise Sea Lion begins
04 March 2004
More than 500 Royal Australian Navy, Army and Royal Australian Air Force personnel are on the move to Cowley Beach, north of Townsville, to participate in the first of the Australian Defence Force’s amphibious training exercises for the year, Exercise Sea Lion. The three-week-long exercise, which runs until 19 March, is part of the Australian Defence Force’s ongoing efforts to improve its amphibious capability for the defence of Australia.
Exercise Sea Lion will involve HMA Ships Tobruk, Labuan, Brunei and Tarakan, the Primary Casualty Reception Facility and elements from 3 Brigade, 10 Force Support Battalion and 5 Aviation Regiment.
The exercise will focus on the planning and conduct of amphibious operations. It will exercise the different services of the ADF in working in a joint environment to develop and refine procedures for the ADF's amphibious capability.
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| RAN8109938_040302_004 Able Seaman Boatswain Mate Keith Herr, 27, from Port Maquarie; Leading Seaman Boatswain Mate Michael Hehir from Mount Gravatt, and Seaman Boatswain Mate Allan Alexander, 29 from Gympie preparing rope for use in a replenishment at sea. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_019 Able Seaman Boatswain Mate Keith Herr, 27, from Port Maquarie; Leading Seaman Boatswain Mate Michael Hehir from Mount Gravatt, and Seaman Boatswain Mate Allan Alexander, 29 from Gympie preparing rope for use in a replenishment at sea. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_040 Corporal Gavin Jacobs, 27, from Townsville Queensland, who has been attached to B Squadron for the past 2.5 years, performing pre-flight checks on an Australian Army Black Hawk. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_079 Army Aircraft Maintainers attach the rotors of the Black Hawk prior to flying operation. The rotors have to removed in order to stow the aircraft in the hangar, then reattached. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_100 Black Hawk Helicopter being moved out onto the flight deck. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_106 Army Aircraft Maintainers reattach the rotors of a Black Hawk in preparation for flying operations. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_123 Army Black Hawk helicopters perform flying operations. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_138 Army Black Hawk Helicopters perform flying operations. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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| RAN8109938_040302_206 Black Hawk aircrew during flying operations. (Date taken: 02 March 2004) Low-res | Hi-res |
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