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Tobruk
delivers builders, heavy gear to remote North
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No
item too big. The Kalmar is loaded onto HMAS Tobruk for
the return journey to Brisbane.
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HMAS
Tobruk (CMDR Peter Laver), one of the RAN’s three “can
do” ships, has successfully brought back home the Army’s
Brisbane based 21 Construction Squadron and its array of heavy
machinery.
The heavy transport and her ship’s company collected the
soldiers from Broome last month.
Six months earlier the ship delivered the squadron to the north-west
Australian port. Since then, the squadron has been involved in
the latest phase of the ATSIC Army Community Assistance Program
(AACAP) in outback Lombardina.
AACAP is a joint initiative between ATSIC, the Army and the Federal
Department of Health and Aged Care (DHAC).
Under AACAP the Army contributes personnel and equipment to provide
housing and infrastructure such as water, sewerage, power, waste
disposal and roads in remote high need communities identified
by ATSIC.
Tobruk is a regular visitor to northern Australia and has been
in the region since August.
Alongside in Broome she hosted visits by cadets, while the ship’s
Australian Rules side played the locals but went down in a hard
fought match.
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