Image Gallery: May 2007
ADF Operations Update
10 May 2007
The Director General Public Affairs, Brigadier Gus Gilmore provided an update on Australian Defence Force operations at home and overseas.
Australia has deployed an ADF Reconstruction Task Force (RTF), consisting of a combined arms team, to the Oruzgan Province in Southern Afghanistan as part of Operation SLIPPER. The RTF is in partnership with the Netherlands Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and forms part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force.
The RTF has a clearly defined role to work on reconstruction, improvement of provincial infrastructure and community based projects. The RTF also provides trade training to the local population and military engineering training to the Afghan National Army. This type of assistance is designed to benefit the people of Oruzgan Province well into the future and form building blocks of a stable and prosperous community.
The RTF contains around 370 ADF personnel from predominately Queensland based units. It includes elements to provide command, security, engineering, and administrative support and is equipped with Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicles (IMV), Australian Light Armoured Vehicles (ASLAVs) and armoured engineer plant equipment.
Australia's contribution to ISAF is an important component of the Australian Government's commitment to assist Afghanistan achieve a stable and secure future.
| 200705010adf74181_028 Operations update by Brigadier 'Gus' Gilmore, Director General Public Affairs. (Date taken: 10 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 200705010adf74181_004 Mental health briefing by Air Vice-Marshal Tony Austin, Head Defence Health Services. (Date taken: 10 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 200705010adf74181_012 Lieutenant Colonel Russell Maddalena, from the Counter Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Task Force, gives the media an IED briefing. (Date taken: 10 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070501adf8161479_021 Australian soliders preparing their Australian Light Armoured Vehicles to go out on operation in Afghanistan. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070501adf8161479_022 Trooper Adam Ayles hydrates while he waits to receive a call to go out on operations in Afghanistan. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070501adf8161479_024 Corporal Jason Hatcher performs a radio check while he waits to receive a call to go out on operations in Afghanistan. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070501adf8161479_051 Corporal Gregory Moon checking his MAG58 Machine Gun, while his driver Trooper Dale Stephan prepares himself for the their departure on an operation outside the wire in Afghanistan. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070501adf8161479_053 Australian Light Armoured Vehicle moving out on an operation in Afghanistan. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070502adf8161479_044 Australian Combat Engineers taking timber off the back of a trailer during an operation in Afghanistan. The timber will be used to refurbish a local Mosque. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070502adf8161479_057 Australian Combat Engineers taking timber off the back of a trailer during an operation in Afghanistan. The timber will be used to refurbish a local Mosque. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_007 One Troop, 13 Squadron, 3/4 Cavalry Regiment soliders during an operation in Tarin Kowt, southern Afghanistan. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_022 Australian Army Combat Engineers working on a verandar for the local community Mosque. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_024 Australian Army Combat Engineers working on a verandar for the local community Mosque. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_025 Australian Army Combat Engineers working on a verandar for the local community Mosque. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_041 Australian soliders removing stores off a Unimog during a recent operation in Tarin Kowt. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_049 Australian Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicles beside the road in Tarin Kowt as local villager and his donkey pass by. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_063 Commanding Officer of the RTF, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Jarvie and Warrant Officer ClassTwo Glen Donaldson inspect the quality of work the Afgan National Army (ANA) is achieving. The building is the new guard tower for the ANA in Oruzgan Province. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20070503adf8161479_103 Afghan National Army First Lieutenant Ghulam Rasool thanks Commanding Officer of the RTF Lieutenant Colonel Harry Jarvie for coming to view the new guard tower that Afghan Nation Army Engineers built. (Date taken: 03 May 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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