Volume
49, No. 13, July 27, 2006
Three
HMAS Albatross personnel who topped their respective courses,
LEUT Chris Clyde, CPO Matthew Hyam and LS Bradley Mills, received
the Fleet Air Arm Association annual Medallions of Merit last
month.
CDRE David Farthing, who presented the awards, said the FAAA had
a long tradition of excellence.
“It gives us great pleasure to be able to recognise these
achievements,” he said.
“Medallions of Merit are a fitting way to recognise the efforts
of our officers and sailors who are working to advance their careers,”
CO HMAS Albatross CAPT Grant Ferguson said.
LEUT Clyde was first in the Air Engineering Officer Application
Course, which covers the management, coordination and supervision
of aircraft maintenance activities at the squadron level, as well
as on detachments ashore and embarked.
“Recently, LEUT Clyde was responsible for organising the
deployment of an engineering team to the MEAO at relatively short
notice to undertake a specialist inspection of HMAS Ballarat’s
Seahawk main rotor gearbox,” his commendation read.
LEUT Clyde said the course marked the culmination of a great deal
of hard work.
“That course is at the end of your four-year degree, so I
guess it’s really what starts your career as an engineer.”
Chief Petty Officer Matthew Hyam topped the CPO Aviation Advanced
Technician Training Course, which covers the management, coordination
and supervision of aircraft maintenance activities at the squadron
level, as well as on detachments ashore and embarked.
“Throughout this course CPO Hyam presented a number of very
impressive assessments resulting in him achieving an overall course
average of 94 per cent, making him the Dux of both the 2005 CPOATT
courses,” his commendation read.
“I didn’t expect to average so highly across the overall
course so that was a nice surprise,” CPO Hyam said.
The Basic Aircrewman course is conducted at 723 SQN and is designed
to train Aircrewman students in all facets of helicopter utility
operations. LS Mills was awarded dux of his course.
LS Mills said the medallion marked achieving the goals in the
course that he had set for himself.
