Capt Hayden Archibald, 162 Recce Sqn, lands in a US Marine Corps Cobra attack helicopter at Shoalwater Bay during Exercise Crocodile 03. Photo by Pte Jodie Richter, 1JPAU(P)

Island of battle
Note: this map is fictional

Two months and many thousands of kilometres later, 1 Bde has returned home to Darwin with renewed confidence in their high level warfighting capabilities and interoperability skills.

You win some, you lose some

ENEMY forces on training activities tend to have the worst luck when it comes to being outnumbered, stumbling into ambushes with uncanny frequency and suffering decisive defeats, time and again on exercises all over Australia.

Pathway to joint ops with Marines

COMBINED efforts by ADF and USMC forces during Exercise Croc 03 have proved to be a pathway to future close cooperation between the two similar organisations.

Providing fire power to 1 Bde

ARMOURED units require artillery that's both heavy enough to have an impact on the mechanised battlefield they face, and mobile enough to keep up with the fast pace of vehicle-mounted combat.

Cobra bares its fangs

AS THE day of the Tiger ARH comes ever closer, one Army helicopter pilot recently had the opportunity for a sneak preview, taking to the skies as co-pilot of a USMC Cobra during Ex Crocodile.

Keeping SWBTA clean and green

APART from fighting and winning the war, the 10,000 participants in Exercise Crocodile 03 faced the challenge of doing so with minimal impact on the environment.

You want it, we rig it and drop it

FRONTLINE units often require resupply at short notice, but cannot always be safely reached by road or helicopter.