Pte Ben Peardon, 4RAR(Cdo), has won the 2003 ADF Amateur Photography Competition in a field dominated by Army shutterbugs.

ARMY takes a brief look back on one of our busiest years.

On the line

Soldiers from 5/7RAR returned to war-fighting basics recently with a mortar course and live fire in the Northern Territory's Mt Bundy Training Area, following a year of lead-up training and deployment on peacekeeping operations in East Timor.