Survival of the spirit
FOR Tasmanian Army reservist, Lt Stuart Anstee, last October's Bali bombings have changed his life forever.

Protecting the rugby World Cup
SOLDIERS, sailors and airmen and airwomen will provide support to state and territory police to ensure the 2003 Rugby World Cup is safe and secure.

Warning out on web sites
FOREIGN intelligence services, issue-motivated groups and investigative journalists could use internet sites such as Schoolfriends.com to hone in on Defence personnel, according to the Defence Security Authority.

DCO helps out
DEFENCE families suffering sudden financial crises have a safety net, thanks to the Defence Community Organisation.

New name, big role
THE WING of the Combat Training Centre (CTC) charged with providing the most realistic possible training to Australian troops, previously CTC (live), has been renamed the Combined Arms Battle Wing (CABW).

Defcredit rates down
DEFCREDIT has announced its reduced Standard Variable home loan rates in September.

Bracelet of honour
THE bond between the Australian and US Armed Forces has been highlighted with a US Air Force officer commissioning a Killed In Action bracelet in honour of Sgt Andrew Russell, SASR, killed in Afghanistan in February 2002.

Hammers away
RESERVE Engineers have teamed up with their regular counterparts to lend a hand with this year's ATSIC-Army Community Assistance Project (AACAP 03) on Palm Island off the coast of North Queensland.

5CSSB freedom of Botany
WITH drums beating and flags flying, 5CSSB gained Freedom of the City of Botany on September 20, as part of the reserve unit's eighth birthday celebrations.

Watch your speed
SPEEDING on barracks is a consistent downfall for members and civilians across the ADF.

Clarification

We want your entries
ARE you a happy snapper, do your mates comment that you should enter your photos in competitions? Maybe you're a unit photographer or you were in the right place at the right time and got the money shot. Do you look at Defence photography and think 'I can do that.'

Tobruk doco wins award
A Defence documentary on the siege of Tobruk in WW2 has won the Australian Video Producers Award for best documentary production costing more than $80,000.

Boys are back in town
FIFTY-SIX members of the first Baghdad security detachment (SECDET) have returned home after providing vital security and protection for Australian diplomatic interests in Iraq for the past four months.

Give yourself a voice
A TELEPHONE is an essential office tool but, according to Defence Voice Services, most people only use 20 per cent of the features available to them.

Keeping adventure
ADVENTUROUS training in the ADF is under evaluation by the Inspector-General of Defence.

Ground-to-air system
THE Army's ground-based air defence capability will effectively double when the rollout of equipment from a contract signed in June takes place.

Acheivement needed
CONTRIBUTIONS are currently being sought for inclusion in the Defence Achievements database.

5/7RAR Association formed
THIRTY years after being formed from the amalgamation of 5RAR and 7RAR, serving soldiers and former members of 5/7 RAR now have somewhere to hang their slouch hats.

Wet, wet, wet
GENERALLY, with the on-set of summer, comes the on-set of rain. This is all well and good if you are a farmer, but if you happen to be a soldier in any one of Australia's garden-variety training areas, the thought of climbing soaking wet into the F-sack at night is fairly daunting.

News in Brief

MEAO in the loop
LAND Commander Maj-Gen David Hurley has returned from a recent inspection of Australian troops located around the globe.

RGB sappers Pulada effort in
AFTER 61 Rifle Company rotations through Butterworth, the range facilities used by the Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB) were beginning to look like they had been through a lot.

Canadian CO for Kabul force
OTTAWA, Brig-Gen Peter Devlin of Canada will take command of the Kabul Multi-National Brigade (KMNB), taking over from Brig-Gen Werner Freers of Germany.

Pie eyed before the siren
Life-long Collingwood supporters prepare for the televised coverage of the AFL Grand Final in the Solomon Islands.

Kiwis get mobile
THE New Zealand Army project of replacing its aging fleet of M113A1 APCs began recently with the first seven of 105 LAV III arriving from Canada.

FLLAK on your back
For ADF personnel deploying into the MEAO their arrival in Kuwait is a critical one, for it is where they are prepared and equipped for the tour ahead.

Australia and Japan sign memo
JAPANESE Minister of State for Defense, Shigeru Ishiba, and the Defence Minister Robert Hill recently signed a memorandum on Defence Exchange between the Japan Defense Agency and the Australian Department of Defence.

The waiting game
IT'S now more than 70 days since the first personnel arrived in Honiara for Operation Anode to help restore law and order in Solomon Islands.

Heavy metal king lifts queen
NOT many of the 176 AD Sqn personnel deployed to Solomon Islands thought they would be faced with helping shift an UH-1H Iroquois helicopter stranded on a remote beach of the island of Guadalcanal within days of their arrival.