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FLTLT
Peter Fishpool demonstrates the correct procedure for lighting
a flare.
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Jason Gosling keeps Military Working Dog Dougie on a tight
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aircrew can be thankful if No. 23 (City of Brisbane) Squadron
members are in the vicinity. The Squadron refined its search
and rescue skills during its recent annual ground combat exercise.
About 90 personnel were involved in Exercise Dauntless, held at
the Wide Bay Training Area over three days. “One of the many scenarios
included a search and rescue mission in a hostile environment
in which members had to find and retrieve downed aircrew,” 23SQN
CO Squadron Leader Randall Wright said.
Other scenarios required Squadron members to deal with enemy incursions,
protesters, irate villagers, a sick child and kangaroo shooters.
Personnel built gun pits out of sandbags, set up aircraft maintenance
facilities and created a self-sustaining unit that could be deployed
as a forward base to service No. 38 Squadron Caribous.
23SQN Specialist Reservist medical staff deployed to gain skills
and qualifications to enable their deployment on operations.
The exercise enabled members to requalify or qualify on Steyrs
and pistols and keep up to date with combat training. Survival
training was also conducted, with members being shown how to create
shelters from natural resources and parachutes, how to light fires under a variety of conditions and how to gather water using
different methods.
“Exercise Dauntless was a very successful exercise that achieved
a number of aims, including ground combat training, survival training,
and experience in living in a deployed environment with limited
facilities,” SQNLDR Wright said.
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