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Sweethearts, parents and friends farewelled HMAS Newcastle from Sydney on May 23 on her third tour of The Gulf. The current CO, CAPT Trevor Jones, said his crew was “well prepared and looking forward to the deployment” after months of training and exercises.

High flyer heads MEAO
The new Australian Task Force Commander in the Middle East Area of Operations, CDRE Geoffrey Ledger, left Australia recently to take up his challenging new posting in Iraq.