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Let games begin The picture was taken by Phil Barling from the Public Affairs and Corporate Communication branch in Sydney. For more on the Navy's involvement in the Games see articles five to eleven of this edition. |
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CN speaks out
for all My leadership conference brought together 440 representatives from across the Navy and the retired community, ranging from Leading Seaman to Vice Admiral, including Navy civilian personnel. |
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BENALLA finds
mystery craters The Royal Australian Navy hydrographic survey ship HMAS BENALLA has located a series of puzzling craters on the ocean floor between Cooktown and Thursday Island. Now four RAN divers have taken a closer look at the craters and the objects which sit in the... |
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Keeping sailors
informed The RAN's Personnel Action Team wants sailors to "be in the know." The team wants sailors to be able to log into the Internet and find out what is happening in their service. |
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Medal entitlements Australian sailors, soldiers and airmen who served in South East Asia between 1955-75 will benefit from an estimated 42,000 new medal entitlements, the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence said. |
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Let the Games
begin The Year 2000 Sydney Olympic Games are up and running and so are hundreds of officers, sailors and civilians of the Royal Australian Navy. Over the next two weeks, and during the follow-up 10 days of the Paralympics, RAN personnel will provide services vital to the... |
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Navy wades
in Navy divers and Sea-King helicopters are obvious contributions to Op Gold. Behind the scenes, however and manning the watch are two RAN Officers, responsible for keeping the Commander of Joint Task Force 112, BRIG Gary Byles firmly in touch with his operation. |
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Question of
flags Come on all ye old salts and signallers…. what are the flags in our picture saying? It is "Olympic Games" of course. Signallers in HMAS TOBRUK hoisted the signal flags the other day as they got into the swing... |
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Paralympian
in from the cold Darwin paralympian swimmer Judith Green, has been given a helping hand by the RAN. HMAS COONAWARRA has made its swimming pool available to Judith for her arduous training schedule. |
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Navy quick
to build the Bank When the Red Cross Blood Service put out an appeal for blood to form a stockpile for the Olympic Games the Royal Australian Navy came to the party...big time. |
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Mark's torch
reward An able seaman in TS TOBRUK has run a leg of the Olympic torch relay in his home town of Maitland in NSW. AB Mark Boxsell was nominated by his mum for helping care for his now deceased grandmother who died from cancer. Mark has also been a tremendous help to... |
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Band in demand The RAN band is set for a busy performance during the Sydney Olympic Games, says the Director of Music, CMDR Ashley Greedy. "There will be a variety of performances during September and October which will also cover the Paralympics and include combined musical... |
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Mediators to
save time and money They are called "neutrals" and they could soon be saving the RAN, its employees and contractors much time and money when it comes to disputes. A "neutral" is an alternative dispute resolution mediator who comes between a pair of workers or groups in dispute. |
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Welcome "Aussies" In Hawaii prior to deployment to Alaska , some personnel from HMAS COLLINS were asked to provide information on Australia to the Mililani Middle School just north of Pearl Harbour. |
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A running gun
battle The presence of two native powerboats circling their ship while engaged in a running gun fight brought some tense moments for the company of HMAS TOBRUK during her recent "peace facilitating" duties in the Solomon Islands. |
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Well done TOBRUK Civic leaders have praised the RAN and in particular the commanding officer and ship's company of HMAS TOBRUK for their work in taking tonnes of vital humanitarian aid from Australia to East Timor. |
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Lessons of
East Timor It is an old military saying that in any contingency more lessons are relearned than learned anew. East Timor may have been Australia's most important experience of the realities of the "new wave" in world affairs, but it was no exception in terms of the lessons it taught. |
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Yacht stranded A shore party from HMAS GEELONG joined six occupants of a stranded yacht to excavate around the craft in a bid to refloat if. The 12-metre catamaran, Tearaway, was swept by high waves on to Browse Island, north of Broome on the night of September 3. |
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Minesweepers
in action for Op Bel Isi The C-130 banks steeply and descends toward the jungle-clad mountains that we glimpse through the fuselage window. The aircraft lands with a jolt and brakes sharply. When the back doors open the tropical humidity hits us like a wall. |
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Reserve pay
- what are you being paid The Directorate of Salary and Allowances and Army News have received considerable correspondence from ADF Full-Time and Reserve personnel on the adequacy of Reserve pay. |
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Aviation Force
Element Group Monday, March 13 is written into RAN history as the day on which one of its most fundamental organisational changes occurred - the establishment of the Force Element Groups and Naval Systems Command. The Force Element Group (FEG) concept is... |
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LADS on show The RAN still has a fixed wing capability despite the recent withdrawal from service of the last of the HS748s. It comes in the form of a Fokker F27-500 "Friendship" aircraft operated by the RAN Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Unit based in Cairns. |
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ADPAs vital
to drug program The Alcohol and Drug Program Advisers (ADPA) Course 2/00 has been conducted by the Southern Region Alcohol and Drug Program Coordinator (LEUT Sally Coates) in HMAS CERBERUS. |
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Health with
Hercules - An apple a day If you have a strange desire to enter the text of a story within the text section, I myself would put it here as it seems to make the most sense. |
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Fund-raising
for fun The two Navy entrants in this year's NSW Variety Club Bush Bash again held the RAN flag high in this amazing children's charity fund-raiser. The Navy team, lead by Commodore Nick Helyer, raised $30,000 out of a Bash total of $1.1 million for special kids. |
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Cricketers
near perfect The Australian Service Cricket Association (ASCA) team recently completed a near-perfect tour throughout the Asian region, winning six of their seven games played against national sides from Singapore and Malaysia, plus prominent sides within those areas. |
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