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Channel Triumph
Lieutenant
Emma Spinks has successfully completed the Everest of long-distance
swimming by crossing the English Channel.
Destroyers full ahead
Defence’s exciting plan to acquire three new Air Warfare Destroyers
is running full speed ahead.
Arunta
greeted with open arms
In
a rare visit, HMAS Arunta has successfully completed a fiveday
goodwill trip to Russia.
Honing
Japanese Samurai skills
HMAS
Arunta and an Australian Customs boarding party have taken
part in an exercise aimed at honing skills in boarding vessels
which may be carrying weapons of mass destruction.
HMAS
Adelaide
Vital
link maintained
Arab women step forward
High score for boarding
teams
CDF visits
Pay
packets set to increase
The
second instalment in the 30-month Workplace Remuneration Agreement
(WRA) took effect on November 4, with a 4 per cent wage increase
across all ADF ranks.
Charts
go high-tech
Thirty
years ago Australian Hydrographic Service cartographer Ken
Burrows had a gleam in his eye that one day the paper charts
of the seas and oceans around Australia would be transcribed
to a computer data base.
Briefs
Fight
fire with fire
When a serious bushfire fuelled by fierce north-westerly winds
swept through sections of north Nowra on October 13 destroying
buildings and putting 50 residents to flight, the Navy and
its contractors once again helped a community in crisis.
ASC
gets new CEO
The
Australian Submarine Corporation has welcomed Greg Tunny as
its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Chill
funds flowing
A
benefit dinner held at the Brothers Leagues Club in Cairns
to support WO Ian Chill and his family has raised $53,000.
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Bulletin
Board
Heavy
seas give Yarra a final test
Her
last 48 hours at sea after an 11-week south east Asian deployment
provided a final test for minehunter HMAS Yarra and her ship’s
company of 42.
WA
hoping for full house
A different scene to one photographed
above some weeks ago will be experienced on November 28, with
ships and submarines
Happy
birthday to HMAS Parramatta
HMAS
Parramatta is just one year old, and what a 12 months it has
been.
Divers
declare bombs away
A team of highly qualified Navy explosives experts is heading
for the Pacific island of Tarawa to destroy or remove thousands
of pieces of World War II ordnance and decomposing commercial
explosives lying just 10 metres from local homes and to survey
the waterline for other dangerous ordnance.
Freo
cops training role
HMAS Fremantle has been
hard at work in the Solomon Islands training the crews of
Pacific Class Patrol Boat Auki.
New
U boat for Germans
The
third German Type U212A submarine was named on September 13
in Kiel.
Navy
on the job in Iraq
Iraqi
force up to speed
Learning ropes logistically
speaking.
Warramunga
hunts for her tribal links
Warramunga
headed to central Australia recently to cemente her relationship
with the Waramungu people.
Out
of the darkness
Holbrook
was as good a town as any to eat lunch I thought, so I pulled
my car over, and parked opposite the first café I saw.
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