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Ballarat goes pie-eyed over coaching from...MIGHTY MICK
There’s
no doubt that Collingwood football players admire their coach
Mick Malthouse, and Mick Malthouse admires the Royal Australian
Navy.
Seasprite swoops in for visit
The
Navy will have sharper teeth next year, with the pending acceptance
into service of the new Super Seasprite helicopter.
Heritage
centre funded
Australia
will soon have a major naval heritage centre and museum at
Garden Island in Sydney, with an investment of $5 million.
One
complaint is too many
An
increase in the number of reported sexual offences and sexual
harassment in the Australian Defence Force did not necessarily
indicate an increase in actual incidents, a Defence Equity
Organisation (DEO) review suggests.
Sending
Hawaii Six-0-0
Six hundred Australian officers and sailors in three ships,
a submarine and three aircraft are heading across the Pacific
for the most important and largest exercise on the Navy’s
calendar, RIMPAC 04.
Yachtsman
rescued
Four
members of the ship’s company of patrol boat HMAS Gawler have
braved four metre high waves in the ship’s RHIB to rescue
a 64-year-old American lone yachtsman in his 14-metre yacht
in the Arafura Sea.
Changing
times in senior ranks
Australia
has a new Deputy Chief of Navy. A Seaman Officer with extensive
at-sea experience, RADM Max Hancock is the former Director
General of Coastwatch.
Tackling
mental health issue
Thirty
per cent of men and 15 per cent of women in Australia are
excessive drinkers, figures that would be similar across the
ADF.
A
few too many drinks
Problematic
or risky alcohol abuse is the ADF’s biggest mental health
problem, according to Donna Bull, National Coordinator of
the ADF’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Service and Colonel
Anthony Cotton, the ADF’s Director of Mental Health and Psychology.
Tick
of approval
Professor
Emeritus Nick Heather came to Australia to address the Alcohol
and Drug Management section of the ADF’s inaugural Mental
Health Conference and went away impressed with the organisation’s
progress.
BRIEFS
Good
oiler selected
The
Navy will have a brand new fleet oiler in two years, with
the purchase of a $50 million commercial tanker built in South
Korea.
Six
claim birthday honours
The
Governor-General, MAJGEN Michael Jeffery, has announced that
six members of the Navy have been awarded Orders of Australia
in this week’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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Legal eagle to stay
Commander
Gerry Purcell is believed to be Navy’s last man standing as
part of the UN contingent in East Timor.
Sharpening
security skills
As
Navy Lieutenant Natalie McDougall lowered Shark 07, a Sea
King helicopter, on to the ground, 10 Army Reservists tensed
and awaited the order “go”.
Warriors
to fight terrorism
The
Australian Defence Force Warfare Centre at RAAF Williamtown
and the Information Capability Development Branch are gearing
up to fight terrorism in this month’s Joint Warrior Interoperability
Demonstration.
Plentiful
supplies to be found in Eden
HMAS
Parramatta has become the first major fleet unit to conduct
an ammunitioning at JALO’s new East Coast Ammunitioning Depot
Twofold Bay near Eden on the NSW South Coast.
Warramunga
rests easy
HMAS
Warramunga (CMDR John Vandyke) has celebrated the completion
of a busy operational period with a visit from the Maritime
Commander Australia.
Bulletin
Board
Sea
Eagle soars into action
It
was early in the morning. The sun had just begun to peek over
the horizon, bathing the camouflaged figures before me in
a gentle glow.
Capability
put to the test
HMAS
Kanimbla is ready to soar after a successful Exercise Sea
Eagle last month, aimed at testing if Australia’s Amphibious
Readiness Element is at the minimum level of capability.
Displaying
all the elements
Perfect
weather and an action-packed program attracted more than 2000
people to HMAS Creswell’s open day.
Reserves
help stem the tide
The
Navy would be sunk without its Reserves, the Director General
Navy Personnel and Training, CDRE Matt Tripovich, has told
the Canberra Reserve cell.
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