Beating the bombs
From inside the humvee the stretch of Iraqi highway seems safe enough. Without warning the ground on the right erupts like a volcano peppering the vehicle with dirt. Bitumen, stones and shrapnel, crack the windscreen. As the dust clears, the road reappears as if nothing had happened.

Building a better PNG
Exercise Puk Puk (Tok Pisin for crocodile) is an annual two-month exercise involving Australian engineers and the Papua New Guinea Defence Force Engineer Battalion (PNGDF EB), which this year had 17 Const Sqn deploying to Wewak in Northwest PNG.

Hot on the trail
Most people think of Pay Corps (RAAPC) people as desk-bound number crunchers up to their eyeballs in financial paperwork.