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Old hands, new medals
Volume 50, No. 12, July 12, 2007 |
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| EXPERIENCE: CMDR Jim Buchanan, MAJGEN David Morrison, CMDR Mick Brice and LCDR David Stone. |
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Three long-serving naval officers engaged in the rewriting of the ADF publications were presented their Australian Defence Medals recently by the Commander of the Australian Defence College, MAJGEN David Morrison.
The small team of part-time Reservists, including an absent Wing Commander, has about 150 years of Defence experience and this, in conjunction with sound computer skills, is enabling the hard-copy-based publications to be transferred to an online database format, the Australian Defence Glossary (ADG).
In this way, all information about an operational term, its definition, its acronym, any related terms, etc are made visible at one time rather than being separate entries in a series of books.
Like the hard-copy publications, the core of the terms is from NATO’s AAP-6 and AAP-15 with Australian joint and single-service terms added. As a further aid to interoperability, the US joint terms are also being added.
By the end of this year this Operational Glossary component of the ADG will be a very useful tool for those engaged in writing for operations and exercises.
You will find the Australian Defence Glossary at the DRN at http://dlms.dcb.defence.gov.au/ |
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