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	Norforce reaches out NORFORCE is providing logistical and liaison support to government departments assisting Aboriginal communities in northern Australia on Operation Outreach.

	AACAP efforts praised SOLDIERS at Doomadgee for AACAP had their hard work praised when Defence Parliamentary Secretary Peter Lindsay visited the remote Gulf of Carpentaria community.

	Great relief RAGING flood waters, snow, partly washed away roads and boggy ground could not stop a combined relief effort to Gippsland residents by Sale-based 4/19PWLHR and Air Force members.

	Flood of aid SHOPS, homes and a vital rail link sandbagged, a major city entry road cleared of fallen trees and looters thwarted.

	Join the family ACW Meleana Leckie graduated at RAAF Base Edinburgh in front of her family on June 20. Nothing out of the ordinary, except her three siblings and her father are all ADF members.

	Siblings get jump on rivals CPL Daniel Ryan and Pte Tamara Ryan are the first brother and sister to be on the same basic parachute course at the Parachute Training School (PTS).

	Explosive symposium THE eighth Australian Explosive Ordnance (EO) Symposium, known as Parari, will be held in Melbourne from November 13-15.

	Historic transfer IN an historic event Reserve units serving with 1 Div transferred to the 2 Div fold on July 1.



	Centre of action HERALDING a new era in urban operations training, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson commissioned the new Joint Combined Training Capability (JCTC) in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during exercise Talisman Saber.

	Smokin’ them up 1 BDE soldiers revved up their engines as race enthusiasts flocked to Darwin for the V8 Supercar Championship races from June 22-24.

	Mates remembered A NON-operational deaths memorial has been dedicated at Robertson Barracks.

	Reserves trot out TWO Victoria Cross recipients, Australia’s Keith Payne and the British Army’s LCpl Johnson Beharry, were guests of honour at this year’s Reserve Forces Day (RFD) parade in Sydney.

	British VC winner visits LCPL Johnson Beharry, the first British recipient of the VC since 1982, has visited Australia as part of the British contingent taking part in Reserve Forces Day.

	Decade of service marked at 7CSSB SOLDIERS from 7CSSB celebrated 10 years of service in support of 7 Bde at a night-time ceremony at the unit’s Gallipoli Barracks home.

	Battling cancer in relay enduro YOU can run but you can’t hide in the Army.

	Huey makes history THE distinctive whop of Iroquois rotor blades echoed across the airfield at Point Cook, Victoria, on June 30 as CDF ACM Angus Houston landed A2-377 for the last time.

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	Crossing the gulf JUMPING ship used to be punishable by death, but the most Cpl Rebecca Crossingham can expect is a bit of ribbing from her mates.

	Wing and a prayer IF General Patton’s padre could pray for a miracle and have it granted, so too could Chaplain Morgan Batt, of the Overwatch Battle Group (West) 3.



	Parade honours THREE members of Australia’s Defence Cooperation Program (DCP) have been presented with Australian military medals in front of the officers and soldiers from the 1st Battalion (1BIL) F-FDTL at Baucau, Timor-Leste.

	Here’s lookin’ at you TPR Robert Smith was asleep in his bed at Camp Terendak in southern Iraq when he was woken by a torch light in his eyes and the words: “Telephone call for you, your wife’s having a baby.”

	Last stop before deploying To reach Iraq or Afghanistan, soldiers must first pass through the gateway to the Middle East. Cpl Mike McSweeney reports on the Force Level Logistic Asset.

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