Border watch
National recognition for regional surveillance units.
51FNQR has recently beaten a tough field of competitors to win the prestigious National Quarantine Award for its work supporting quarantine operations in the vast and remote tracts of Northern Australia.

Satisfying 40 years of ARA service
HOW do you fit five long-service rosettes on a Defence Force Service Medal ribbon bar?

A warm NT welcome
SECDET return home from Op Catalyst
SECDET soldiers have been welcomed home to Darwin following the completion of their tour of duty on Operation Catalyst.

Soldiers tow illegal fisherman
A DARWIN soldier was recently commended for his display of initiative and decisive action in the apprehension of a suspected illegal fishing vessel.


Farewell to Tpr Lawrence
A VEIL of mourning has descended upon 2 Cav Regt following the death of one of its serving sons.


Doctrine changes for evac
NON-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) have been revised with the implementation of new doctrine for joint operations, enhancing the way the ADF will extract Australian and approved foreign nationals.

NT kids at Robbo blast
ALMOST 50 young indigenous children from isolated communities on Bathurst Island, Daly River and Port Keats will remember their weekend at Robertson Barracks, NT, for a long time.


Diving for a tinnie
1 BDE soldiers successfully recovered a sunken tinnie during the recently conducted Exercise Sea Predator 2004.

Timor-Leste shots beste?

EAST Timor’s crack shots were on target as they trained for the 2004 Australian Army Skill at Arms Meeting (AASAM) under the eyes of SFTC and Defence Cooperation Program EM instructors.

Army’s armchair warriors
THE lethality of the ADF’s armchair warriors has been greatly enhanced following a recent exercise held at RAAF Base Williamtown.

Everyone’s favourite Tattoo
THE world’s favourite tattoo will be available in Sydney for the first time ever – but be quick, or you may miss out.

In brief


Learning curve
Youngest Iraq medical team member keeps pace
PTE Rachael Lee had just stepped off the plane after completing her advanced medic’s course when she received a phone call offering her a place in the 19-member ADF medical team being sent to work in a Coalition trauma hospital in Iraq.


Carers something special
ONE of the ADF’s most operationally experienced surgeons, Col Jeffrey Rosenfeld, and one the ADF’s newest enlistees, Sqn-Ldr Andrew Rosengarten, share more in common than being part of the 19 member Medical Team attached to the US Air Force’s 332 Expeditionary Medical Group at a major US air base north of Baghdad.

Haki the sailor man
An Iraqi sailor sunk three times is back for more in the ICDF
WHEN the image of Saddam’s statue toppling in Baghdad beamed onto the screen of Haki AllBahaer’s television set in Lebanon, it signalled the end of years in exile and a return to the sea.


Keeping an eyes-on in the Sinai
RECENT terrorist attacks on two resort towns in Egypt had a resounding effect on the Australian Contingent serving on Operation Mazurka with the Multinational Force & Observers in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.