By
LEUT Rachel Irving
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Twenty
Air Force personnel, from sergeants to flight lieutenants,
will participate in this year’s Exercise Long
Look, which runs from June 3 to September 28.
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TWENTY
Air Force personnel will soon experience conditions in a foreign
Air Force when they participate in Exercise Long Look 2005, the
latest annual reciprocal personnel exchange program with the RAF.
The exercise will be held from June 3 to September 28.
The group ranges in rank from sergeant to flight lieutenant and
includes technical specialists, a military working dog handler
and an air traffic control officer.
One who will rotate is Flight Lieutenant Lee Warren, from Defence
Legal, who applied after discovering legal officers had never
been involved before.
“I applied because it is a great opportunity to see how a
closely allied force does business, especially with regard to
legal training,” he said.
“I’ve never left the east coast of Australia, so it’s
also a great opportunity to see some of England at the same time.
I was overwhelmed when I was told I had been successful but now
am just happy and grateful.”
FLTLT Warren will be attached to the Directorate of Legal Services
at RAF Base Innsworth, in Gloucestershire, where he will compare
legal training in the Air Force with legal training in the RAF
in light of some of the recent changes to their military justice
system.
“They intend to send me to a number of stations to which
RAF legal officers are posted, such as London, Cyprus and Germany.
I’ll be looking at the way in which they deal with different
environments and different legal regimes.”
Flight Sergeant Mark Eatts, from RAAF Base Pearce, has more personal
reasons for going, as well as seeing the exercise as a chance
for his professional development.
“I applied as soon as applicants were called for,” he
said. “I’ve always wanted to go to the UK as I have
relatives there whom I have never met. Also, I am an amateur historian
and would like to see some of the old RAF bases. I’ve been
in the Air Force for 19 years and have never deployed overseas
with the Service. This may be my only chance to do so.”
Long Look is an annual multi-national personnel exchange program
of Australian, British and New Zealand personnel, and incorporates
positions from the Air Force, Army and Navy.
It is usually conducted for four months sometime between May and
September. Australian personnel are nominally attached to equivalent
British units.
The aim of Long Look is to broaden the experience and professional
knowledge of selected personnel and to promote continued cooperation
between the participating defence forces through exposure to other
procedures, equipment, personnel and cultures.
The responsibility for the nomination of exchange positions for
Long Look alternates between Australia and the UK.
The UK will nominate exchange positions for 2006. Selection is
confined from senior NCO to junior officer level.
Personnel are representing their Service, the ADF and Australia
and are selected for their professional and representational qualities.
The Australian contingent will assemble at Randwick Barracks on
June 1 and start pre-deployment briefings the next day. Meetings
with their British counterparts will follow before the Australian
contingent flies to RAF Base Brize Norton and subsequent dispersal
to host units on June 4.
Expressions of interest for next year’s Long Look will be
called for in August.
Personnel intending to apply will be required to submit a standard
application form PE57 nominating a task or project they intend
researching while on exchange. They will be required to submit
a post-activity report which details the outcome of the task or
project.
For
more information contact Sergeant Christine Williams at DP-AF,
phone (02) 6265 3070.
Selected
Personnel
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Participants
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RAAF
Base
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Job
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FSGT
Mark Aston
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Williamtown
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ALSFITT
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SGT
Andrew Boyle
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Richmond
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MUSN
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SGT
Gary Burke
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Williamtown
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CETECH
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SGT
Chris Clark
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Amberley
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ATECH
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SGT
Stanley Davis
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Amberley
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AVTECH
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SGT
Gerard Diffey
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Amberley
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SECPOL
(MWDH)
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FSGT
Mark Eatts
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Pearce
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CETECH
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WOFF
Kevin Francis
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Edinburgh
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ATECH
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WOFF
Robert Gourley
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Townsville
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WKSSPVR
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SGT
Ian Hodgson Williams
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Laverton
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MUSN
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SGT
Stephen Jones
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Wagga
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ADASFITT
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SGT
Jack Kruljac
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ADFRU
Sydney
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ATECH
(Recruiting)
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SGT
Brett Louis
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Richmond
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LOADM
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FLTLT
Paul Lummis
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Williamtown
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ATC
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SGT
Andrew Materne
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Richmond
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LOADM
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WOFF
Joseph Moellers
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Richmond
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FLTENG
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WOFF
Katrina Salvesen
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Richmond
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HQ
Contingent
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FSGT
Cary Thompson
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Russell
Offices
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ATECH
(Career Mngr)
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FLTLT
Lee Warren
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ADFHQ
(DL)
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LEGAL
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SGT
Simon Wyton
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Edinburgh
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ADAVTECH
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