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LIFE SAVER
Navy diver in dramatic rescue
A
RAN clearance diver has used his combat first aid kit and
training to help save the life of a young Sudanese farmer
badly wounded when his tractor detonated an anti-tank mine.
New
ships on the way
The Government has approved
stage one of the $2 billion project to provide the Navy with
two landing helicopter dock (LHD) class ships.
Career
management reaches far west
Career
managers have conducted more than 560 interviews since the
Directorate of Sailors Career Management Fleet Base West (DSCMFBW)
opened for business in May.
New
destroyer all ahead full
The
designers of the US Navy’s capable Arleigh Burke Class destroyers,
Gibbs and Cox, have been chosen as designers of the RAN’s
new air warfare destroyers.
Catch
of the day
Patrol
boats from Cairns and Darwin have struck serious blows in
recent weeks in the fight to protect Australia’s precious
fish stocks from foreign, commercial poachers.
Aussies
hard at work in Iraq
When Navy Reserve Nursing
Officer LEUT Diana Kumnick decided to respond to a call for
volunteers to deploy to Iraq as part of the Australian Defence
Force (ADF) medical team, she didn’t think she had a hope
of being chosen.
Celebrating
victory in Canberra style
In Canberra, Navy officers
and sailors moved through the veterans’ enclosure around Lake
Burley Griffin to meet and care for the some 3000 World War
II veterans and their families celebrating VP Day.
Rising
star shines
CDRE Robyn Walker MB BS
(Qld), Diploma of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, is the first
female one-star officer in the RAN.
Brisbane
remembers
In Queensland - perhaps
closest to the action in World War II - widespread celebrations
were held along the sea board from Townsville south to the
Queensland capital.
Good
read
Far north Queenslander
Peter Nielsen has produced North Queensland at War – Volume
1, the first of three volumes collating all shipping movements
through north Queensland waters during WWII en route to or
from South East Asia or the Southwest Pacific.
Rattle
’n hum
Anzac’s outstanding finale
It was ‘raining men’ and
they were ‘blaming it on the boogie’ when the HMAS Anzac band
entertained more than 1,000 underprivileged children in South
Africa recently.
Talking
terror
A prominent Australian
terrorism expert has warned that terrorists denied sanctuary
in Afghanistan and Iraq may seek refuge in two of Australia’s
neighbouring countries.
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Far
from being a Boer
South Africa lived up to
its fascinating reputation when HMAS Anzac visited Simon’s
Town and Capetown late last month.
Locked
horns
The old bull and the young
bull - HMAS Westralia and the future HMAS Sirius (currently
MV Delos) - made an unscheduled meeting in Darwin on August
6.
Yesteryear
Old Salts reunited
The RAN Band Qld Detachment
visited the Gold Coast on July 23 to provide the feature entertainment
for the 1963 HMAS Leeuwin Old Salts Reunion.
Flying
the coop
After 18 years service
Senior Naval Officer at 2 Flying Training School (2FTS), LCDR
Andrew Crocker, is leaving the Navy.
On
the hunt for ADF aviators
They come from across
Australia to gather at a small airfield on the outskirts of
the New South Wales city of Tamworth – home of the golden
guitar.
Raising
the mast on WWII history
A handful of weary-eyed
veterans from HMAS Vendetta, which performed heroically in
the Tobruk campaign and the Battle of Matapan in WWII, gathered
at Garden Island recently to witness the ship’s mast being
raised again at the RAN Heritage Centre.
Briefs
At
your legal service
A memorandum of understanding
has been struck between the Law Council of Australia and the
RSL to provide free emergency legal aid to all Defence Force
personnel.
Docs
ahoy
Civvy doctors tour NUSHIP Toowoomba
Civilian Doctors from
Health Centre Cerberus (HCC) gained an insight into life at
sea following a recent visit to NUSHIP Toowoomba.
Good
omen
An endangered Snowy Wandering
Albatross was found on the deck of HMAS Gascoyne while it
was berth at HMAS Creswell recently.
Northern
Trident
Anzac helps out
Anecdotes
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