Prized effort: Brig Michael Krause, Director-General Future Land Warfare, receives the 2006 Chauvel Essay Prize from CA Lt-Gen Peter Leahy (above) for the best article published in the Australian Army Journal in 2006. His article, “The Case for Minimum-mass Tactics in the Australian Army” can be found at www.defence.gov.au/army/LWSC.
Photo by Cpl Andrew Hetherington

Free fall: Maj Warwick Jones celebrates 25 years of military parachuting and his 1000th descent in a jump over Jervis Bay. Maj Jones, who has served at the Parachute Training School from the rank of corporal, took the plunge with Sub-Leut Michaela Nicol, who was making her first tandem jump.
Photo by Pte Dan Cocker

Smoke ’em up: Parachute rigger Cpl Lee Cutler checks final wind speed as red smoke billows behind to show the Red Beret team where to land on Queen’s Park at Toowoomba during Defence Recruiting Day activities.
Photo by Tpr Chris Moore

Passing the torch: World War II veteran Allan Hooper presents an Operation Anode brassard to Pte Owen Bambrick, 25/49RQR, at a parade before 25/49RQR members deployed to the Solomon Islands (left). Mr Hooper and five other Battle of Milne Bay veterans attended the parade.
Photo by WO2 Graham McBean