Rabbitohs pack down

Joining RAN members ABET Mathew Green, LCDR Lee Goddard and ABCSO Damian Drew are Rabbitohs (L-R) Luke Stuart, Owen Craigie, Mark Minichiello, Willie Peters, Shane Walker and Andrew Hart. In front of them are Chris Walker and Bryan Fletcher. Photo LSPH Damien Pawlenko.

HMAS Stuart, the ‘Tartan Terror’ and the Rabbitohs, the South Sydney Rugby League side, have much in common.

Not only are they Sydney-based, they have the same colours — red and green.

The bonds between the two groups were be cemented even further with a series of visits.

The first, by the team to Stuart, took place late last month when eight players called on the ship while she was alongside Fleet Base East.

The executive officer, LCDR Lee Goddard, soon had the players and some of the ship’s company, ‘packing down’ on the flight deck.

Navy News photographer LSPH Damien Pawlenko was on the ball to snap the occasion.

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