AFL game at the weekly AUSKICK clinic
Operation ANODE is the name of the ADF contribution to the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
(Date uploaded: 30 June - 11 images)
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Visit by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
NATO’s top man paid a final visit to officials in Tarin Kowt as part of a farewell tour of Afghanistan.
(Date uploaded: 30 June 2009 - 10 images)
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Australian Army Personnel
Operation ANODE is the name of the ADF contribution to the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
(Date uploaded: 30 June - 13 images)
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HMAS Toowoomba operates in the Gulf of Oman as part of Task Force 150
Operation SLIPPER is Australia's military contribution to coalition efforts against international terrorism.
(Date uploaded: 30 June 2009 - 06 images)
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7 Brigade’s Exercise Diamond Dollar
Brisbane-based 7 Brigade is conducting Exercise DIAMOND DOLLAR at Shoal Water Bay Training Area near Rockhampton, on the central Queensland coast.
(Date uploaded: 30 June - 07 images)
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Australian and New Zealand troops carry out repairs to the Teniru Women's Shelter
Operation ANODE is the name of the ADF contribution to the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
(Date uploaded: 29 June - 13 images)
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Australian Troops working with Solomon Islands Police Force (SIPF)
Operation ANODE is the name of the ADF contribution to the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
(Date uploaded: 29 June - 12 images)
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Forces Entertainment Tour of Solomon Islands
A Forces Entertainment tour visited Australian Soldiers deployed to Solomon Islands as part of Operation ANODE in June 2009.
(Date uploaded: 29 June - 14 images)
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Signing of Memoranda of Understanding
The Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has signed six historic Memoranda of Understanding with Iraq following a meeting with the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri Al-Maliki in Baghdad.
(Date uploaded: 28 June - 26 images)
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Forces Entertainment Tour
A Forces Entertainment tour visited Australian Soldiers deployed to Solomon Islands as part of Operation ANODE in June 2009.
(Date uploaded: 26 June - 14 images)
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Navy Divers Monitors
The Hon. Greg Combet and Vice Admiral Russ Crane chat with Petty Officer Clearance Diver Steve Flint about the use of the wrist mounted computer which is used for the communication of a divers vital signs to the surface.
(Date uploaded: 26 June - 08 images)
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Nothern Trident 2009 HMAS SYDNEY and BALLARAT UK arrival
HMAS SYDNEY and HMAS BALLARAT arrive at Plymouth, UK during the Northern Trident 2009 deployment.
(Date uploaded: 26 June - 06 images)
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Royal New South Wales Regiment 49th Annual Church Parade
Soldiers from across the Royal New South Wales Regiment (RNSWR) attended the RNSWR Annual Church Parade, at Millers Point, in NSW.
(Date uploaded: 26 June - 11 images)
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HMAS Childers
HMAS Childers alongside at Station Pier in Melbourne to mark the 125h anniversary of the arrival of Victoria's HMVS Albert, HMVS Victoria and HMVS Childers in Port Phillip, Melbourne, which occured on 25th June 1884
(Date uploaded: 25 June - 09 images)
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Camp Quality
Army members of Transit Security Element 53 help out at the Camp Quality camp at Mandorah, Darwin.
(Date uploaded: 25 June - 04 images)
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Live Firing of RBS-70 by 111th Air Defence Battery
Lieutenant Moutrage and Lance Bombardier Freeman from 16th Air Defence Regiment, 111th Air Defence Battery, firing an RBS-70 missile at the live firing range in Woomera, South Australia.
(Date uploaded: 25 June - 13 images)
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Exercise Northern Trident 2009 Canberra Sisters
HMAS Sydney and HMAS Ballarat are currently on the first leg of Northern Trident 2009, a world wide deployment aimed at supporting Government of Australia priorities in selected Western European, North American, and Asian countries.
(Date uploaded: 24 June - 03 images)
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Ex Northern Trident 2009
HMAS Sydney and HMAS Ballarat are currently on the first leg of Northern Trident 2009, a world wide deployment aimed at supporting Government of Australia priorities in selected Western European, North American, and Asian countries.
(Date uploaded: 24 June - 06 images)
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Ex Northern Trident 2009
HMAS Sydney and HMAS Ballarat are currently on the second leg of Northern Trident 09, a world wide deployment aimed at supporting Government of Australia priorities in selected Western European, North American, and Asian countries.
(Date uploaded: 24 June - 27 images)
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Northern Trident 2009
HMAS SYDNEY is currently on the second leg of Northern Trident 09, a worldwide deployment aimed at supporting Government of Australia priorities in selected Western, European, North America and Asian Countries.
(Date uploaded: 24 June - 30 images)
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Exercise Diamond Dollar
Brisbane's 7th Brigade (7 Bde) conducted its biggest exercise in more than a decade from June 1 to 28 2009 with around 2000 soldiers training in a range of combat environments at Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA), Rockhampton.
(Date uploaded: 24 June - 09 images)
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Royal Military College Graduation Parade
The graduation parade is traditionally the final parade of the senior class as members of the Corp of Staff Cadets (CSC) this class is the 114th graduating class of the CSC.
(Date uploaded: 23 June - 04 images)
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Exercise Diamond Dollar 2009 - 7 Brigade
Brisbane’s 7th Brigade (7 Bde) conducted its biggest exercise in more than a decade from 21-28 June 2009. Around 2000 soldiers are training in a range of combat environments at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Rockhampton.
(Date uploaded: 22 June - 08 images)
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Pilots from the Timor Leste Aviation Group reach 5,000 flying hours on Operation Astute
For the Timor Leste Aviation Group (TLAG 10) it’s been a busy four months deployment to East Timor as part of Operation Astute.
(Date uploaded: 22 June - 03 images)
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New name for Sydney Commandos
Army’s 4th Battalion (Commando), The Royal Australian Regiment (4 RAR [Cdo]), has been officially renamed as the 2nd Commando Regiment (2 Cdo Regt) at a ceremony at Tobruk Lines, Holsworthy, today
(Date uploaded: 19 June 2009 - 08 images)
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Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program visits Op Slipper
Australia's contribution to the ISAF in Afghanistan is an important component of the Australian Government's commitment to working with the international community to help prevent acts of terrorism around the world.
(Date uploaded: 19 June 2009 - 09 images)
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Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program visits HMAS Stirling
The 2009 Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (ADFPP) is an initiative that gives Senators and Members of Parliament a taste of what it is like to serve in the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
(Date uploaded: 19 June 2009 - 36 images)
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Deputy Commander joins his troops on the ground in southern Afghanistan
There is an old military adage that time spent in reconnaissance is time not wasted and during his recent visit to the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF – 1), Deputy Commander of Australian Forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier John Caligari, took the opportunity to gain a first hand experience of the world in which his soldiers operate.
(Date uploaded: 18 June 2009 - 18 images)
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Ongoing Reconstruction
Whilst the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force, has been busily working as mentors for the Afghan National Army, the engineers of the 1st Field Squadron, have been working tirelessly, continuing the Australian mission to facilitate the reconstruction of Oruzgan Province.
(Date uploaded: 18 June 2009 - 20 images)
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A Symbol of their Service
As the deployment of the 7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment Battle Group rapidly draws to a close, the officers and soldiers of the Battle Group gathered at their main base in Tarin Kowt to receive their medals.
(Date uploaded: 18 June 2009 - 18 images)
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Men's Health Week
Royal Australian Navy Clearance Divers from Australian Clearance Diving Team One, put on a Physical Training display for the launch of Men's Health Week 2009.
(Date uploaded: 17 June 2009 - 10 images)
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Tiger helicopter load trial on C-17A Globemaster
Air Movements Training and Development Unit from RAAF Base Richmond conducted a load trial of an Army Aviation Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter into an Air Force C-17A Globemaster from No. 36 Squadron.
(Date uploaded: 17 June 2009 - 09 images)
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HMAS Manoora Deployment
Lieutenant Kelly has the Con, and gives orders to the helmsman over 10MC during a Man Overboard Exercise.
(Date uploaded: 17 June 2009 - 29 images)
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The new LR5 James Fisher Submarine Rescue System
Commodore Stephen Davies, Commander Australian Navy Submarine Group, Commander Michael Manfield, Commanding Officer HMAS WALLER and sailors and officers from HMAS WALLER are given a tour of the facilities housing the new LR5 James Fisher Submarine Rescue System.
(Date uploaded: 16 June 2009 - 08 images)
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Minor War Vessel Concentration Period
Armidale Class Patrol Boats along side HMAS COONAWARRA for the Minor War Vessel Concentration Period.
(Date uploaded: 16 June 2009 - 07 images)
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HMAS Toowoomba assists Sailing Yacht Desiderata
Eventful day for Desiderata and her crew, with the addition of Simon Prior as a crew member of Desiderata yesterday for the remainder of the voyage our plans took a shift today, we had enough fuel to sustain for 20 more days with an additional reserve of 15 days thereafter, the initial plan was to head for Mauritius and refuel before rejoining the fleet.
(Date uploaded: 16 June 2009 - 04 images)
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Open day at Royal Malaysian Air Force Base Butterworth
Royal Australian Air Force personnel and aircraft are in Malaysia to participate in Exercise Bersama Shield 2009.
(Date uploaded: 15 June 2009 - 08 images)
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Operation Zamarai Lor
The Commanding Officer of the first Australian Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF – 1) MRTF, Lieutenant Colonel Shane Gabriel has praised the growing capability of Afghan soldiers following the successful completion of a combined Afghan-Australian cordon and search operation.
(Date uploaded: 15 June 2009 - 11 images)
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Contact with Taliban during Operation Zamarai Lor
The Commanding Officer of the first Australian Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF – 1) MRTF, Lieutenant Colonel Shane Gabriel has praised the growing capability of Afghan soldiers following the successful completion of a combined Afghan-Australian cordon and search operation.
(Date uploaded: 15 June 2009 - 12 images)
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Minister for Defence Visits and Thanks Australian Troops in Afghanistan
The newly appointed Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon. John Faulkner, visited Australian Defence Force personnel serving in the Middle East and Afghanistan as part of a familiarisation trip days after taking over Defence’s top job.
(Date uploaded: 14 June 2009 - 09 images)
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Minister for Defence attends NATO conference
The Minister for Defence, Senator John Faulkner, will travel overseas from 9 to 14 June 2009 to attend the Regional Command (South) Ministers’ Meeting in the Netherlands and a NATO Defence Ministers’ meeting in Belgium to advance key issues of importance to Australia’s defence interests.
(Date uploaded: 12 June 2009 - 08 images)
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Defence 2020 Youth Challenge 2009 Adelaide
The Australian Defence Force sponsored Defence 2020: Youth Challenge Forum. High school students from around Adelaide attending the day long forum covering the topic 'Are Australia's Peacekeepers Responsible Citizens?'
(Date uploaded: 12 June 2009 - 12 images)
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Trade Training Graduation in Train Kowt
When Australian Forces first arrived in Tarin Kowt, southern Afghanistan, to begin reconstruction works in 2006, there was an apparent lack of skilled labour in the rural province.
(Date uploaded: 12 June 2009 - 19 images)
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Australian Defence Force 2020 Youth Challenge 2009
Students and Teachers from Bellarine Secondary, Isik College, Kings College Warrnambool, MacLeod College, Mazenod College, Parkwood Secondary and Sandringham College participate in the Australian Defence force 2020 Youth Challenge 2009.
(Date uploaded: 11 June 2009 - 15 images)
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Aircraft and Ground Equipment maintenance Team Leaders
The Defence Reconciliation Action Plan (DRAP) was launched by the Chief of the Defence Force and the Secretary in July 2007.
(Date uploaded: 11 June 2009 - 07 images)
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Task Group 633.2 Air Force
Elements of TG633.2 came together for a group photo followed by the naming of one of two AP-3C aircraft. A9-760 was christened 'Brooke' by the Task Group Padre.
(Date uploaded: 11 June 2009 - 15 images)
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Relay for Life
Cancer Council’s Relay For Life is an opportunity for the Australian Defence Force to get together with the community and celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost to cancer, and fight back against a disease that takes too much.
(Date uploaded: 10 June 2009 - 10 images)
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HMAS Toowoomba departs for Operation Slipper
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator the Honourable Christopher Evans, today farewelled the ship’s company of Royal Australian Navy Anzac-class frigate HMAS Toowoomba, as they departed for a six-month deployment to the Middle East Area of Operations.
(Date uploaded: 09 June 2009 - 14 images)
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Hope House Orphanage
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel deployed in Kabul have engaged Mahboba's Promise, and have affiliated themselves with Hope House.
(Date uploaded: 05 June 2009 - 05 images)
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Exercise Northern Trident HMAS BALLARAT
HMAS Sydney and HMAS Ballarat are currently on the first leg of Northern Trident 09, a world wide deployment aimed at supporting Government of Australia priorities in selected Western European, North American, and Asian countries.
(Date uploaded: 05 June - 14 images)
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HMAS Sydney performs rescue in Mediterranean Sea
HMAS SYDNEY and HMAS BALLARAT are currently on Operation Northern Trident, a worldwide deployment aimed at supporting Government of Ausralia priorities in selected Western, European, North America and Asian Countries.
(Date uploaded: 04 June - 04 images)
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LR-5 Submarine Rescue System
The LR5 submarine rescue system arrived in Australia on Tuesday morning 2 June 2009, the Defence Materiel Organisation’s Head of Maritime Systems Rear Admiral Boyd Robinson announced today.
(Date uploaded: 04 June - 17 images)
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7th Brigade Obstacle Course
7th Brigade units went head to head as each team negotiated their way through the Gallipoli Barracks obstacle course striving for the best time and technique.
(Date uploaded: 04 June - 17 images)
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Minister for Defence visits RMAF Butterworth
On 1 June 2009 the Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, visited the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base in Butterworth, Malaysia and met with Australian Defence Force members based there.
(Date uploaded: 03 June - 05 images)
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New ADF recruits from Brisbane
A number of new Australian Defence Force recruits have been sworn-in at a ceremony held in Brisbane, before departing to commence their initial training.
(Date uploaded: 03 June - 12 images)
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New Army and Air Force recruits from Sydney
Enlistment ceremonies were held in the Defence Force Recruiting office at Parramatta in Sydney's west on Tuesday, 2 June 2009. New recruits for Army and Air Force will travel to their respective recruit schools to commence initial training.
(Date uploaded: 03 June - 09 images)
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Aero-medical evacuation testing on Hercules
The airworthiness of new aero-medical evacuation (AME) equipment is being trialled and tested at RAAF Base Richmond on No. 37 Squadron C-130 Hercules.
(Date uploaded: 03 June - 04 images)
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New Army Recruits from Melbourne
New Army Reservists participated in an Enlistment ceremony that took place at the Defence Force recruiting centre in Melbourne.
(Date uploaded: 02 June - 04 images)
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Bersama Shield
Royal Australian Air Force personnel and aircraft are in Malaysia to participate in Exercise Bersama Shield 2009.
(Date uploaded: 02 June - 16 images)
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Imalu Tigers v Brambuk Eels
Imalu Tigers player marks ahead of the Brambuk Eels player during the Dreamtime at the 'G Curtain Raiser Match between the Imalu Tigers v Brambuk Eels at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
(Date uploaded: 02 June - 05 images)
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HMA Ships SUCCESS and PIRIE Asia-Pacific deployment
The Ships' Companies of HMAS SUCCESS and HMNZS TE MANA unite in a memorial service remembering the fallen at the Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore.
(Date uploaded: 02 June - 27 images)
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Northern Territory Ministers Visit Timor
Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, The Hon. Paul Henderson, MLA, took time out from a busy schedule to visit Darwin soldiers currently deployed in East Timor with Operation Astute.
(Date uploaded: 02 June - 11 images)
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STS Young Endeavour embarks to circumnavigate Australia
Sail Training Ship Young Endeavour is farewelled from Fleet Base East as she embarks on her voyage to circumnavigate Australia.
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 10 images)
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HMAS Manoora
The Communication and Informations Systems Department onboard HMAS MANOORA conduct a training session of flashing light and flag hoist signalling.
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 14 images)
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HMAS Success during Exercise Bersama Shield 2009
Three Commonwealth Replenishment Ships, RFA WAVE RULER, HMNZS ENDEAVOUR, and HMAS SUCCESS, conduct Replenishment at Sea exercises during Exercise Bersama Shield 2009 in the South China Sea. The tankers participated in a CONSOL RAS with ENDEAVOUR sandwiched between her two bigger cousins.
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 36 images)
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Control and Reporting Centre in Afghanistan: Ops room
Air Combat Officers operate out of the Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) at Camp Palomino, Kandahar Airfield.
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 03 images)
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Control and Reporting Centre in Afghanistan: Medics
One medic serves with the RAAF Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Corporal Baker is also the only RAAF medic to have served both in the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres.
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 06 images)
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Control and Reporting Centre in Afghanistan
Commander Task Unit (CTU) 633.2.5, Wing Commander (WGCDR) Nathan Christie inspects Camp Palomino, the home of the Control and Reporting Centre (CRC).
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 07 images)
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Force Communications Unit Parade
The Force Communications Unit (FCU) provides the communications capability to Australian forces throughout the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO).
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 08 images)
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Force Communications Unit Transfer of Authority ceremony
The Force Communications Unit (FCU) provides the communications capability to Australian forces throughout the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO).
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 04 images)
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Control and Reporting Centre in Afghanistan
Communications Electronics Technicians deployed to the Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) at Camp Palomino, Kandahar Airfield, fix the Tactical Air Defence Radar System (TADRS).
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 09 images)
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Control and Reporting Centre in Afghanistan
Communications Electronics Technicians deployed to the Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) at Camp Palomino, Kandahar Airfield, fix the Tactical Air Defence Radar System (TADRS).
(Date uploaded: 01 June 2009 - 09 images)
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