Tobruk forges closer links with Frence
HMAS Tobruk had a French connection recently when it conducted intensive two-day Passage Exercise PASSEX) in the Western Australia Exercise Area (WAXA) with the French ships FS LaTouche-Treville (DDG 646) and FS Commandant Birot (FFG 796).

Popular PO about to say goodbye
When you talk about being “part of the furniture”, you could mention Petty Officer Peter Papais in the same breath. “Paps” has served in Tobruk as a Marine Technician continuously since 1996.

Birthday for Navy's all-rounders
HMAS Tobruk (CMDR Nick Bramwell) achieved another significant milestone on April 23 when she celebrated her 23rd year in Commission.

Cup honours awarded to Kanimbla
HMAS Kanimbla, described by the US 5th Fleet Commander, VADM Keating, as the “lynchpin” of task group operations in the northern Gulf during the early stages of the Iraq conflict, has been formally applauded in Sydney.

We will remember them
Australian sailors, soldiers and air men and women now deployed overseas are “following in the footsteps of the Anzac’s of 89 years ago,” the RAN’s Maritime Commander, RADM Raydon Gates, told a hushed crowd of 12,000 attending the Anzac Dawn Service at the Cenotaph in Sydney.

E-learning becomes a breeze
The introduction of the Defence Online Management and Instructional Network, DOMAIN, will reduce the length and expand the availability of many training courses. DOMAIN, one of the largest corporate e-learning systems implemented in Australia, was launched on March 19.

Have training team, will travel
The Flight Deck Training Unit based at Training Authority – Aviation, HMAS Albatross, is meeting the changing demands of training delivery by going out to trainees.

Swiss adventure
Brianne Koening has been named this year’s Navy winner of the Defence Scholarship. Sixteen-year-old Brianne will travel to Switzerland 12 months.

Call for more members to have a say
The Federation relies heavily on its representatives and members to keep it fully informed of burning issues in order to champion the fight to enhance ADF employment conditions and ensure they are not being eroded.

Curtains closed on relic
A curtain has been drawn on the HMAS Parramatta I Memorial in Queens Wharf Reserve at Parramatta. It won’t be there for too long, however.

Battle losses remembered at service
A remembrance service has been held at Sydney’s Garden Island (GI) to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the loss of HMA Ships Perth and Yarra in World War II.

Kayaker takes to the sea after six years
Thirty-nine-year-old John Lipscombe, a Chief Petty Officer at the Mine Warfare Faculty at HMAS Watson, has had for the last six years a “dream” to paddle across Bass Strait in his seagoing kayak.

 

 

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