Image Gallery 2010

31 March 2010
SUVs for SECDET

In 2010, SECDET transitioned from the ASLAV to up-armoured Landcruiser SUVs. The SUVs come in two variants – a 4.2 tonne Series 76 and the 4.6 tonne Landcruiser that the Close Personal Protection team (CPP) uses. For standard escort tasks, they place five troopers in each vehicle – a driver, commander and three operators.
In what they call a ‘motorcade’, the CPP take the diplomats or VIPs in the other, heavier Landcruisers, with the Counter-Attack Team – the troopers – in the other Series 76s.

Deep Caption: Working under Operation Kruger, approximately 100 personnel – mainly Army and some private security contractors - make up SECDET. SECDET’s role is to provide close personal protection, static security, quality assurance and security advice to the Australian Embassy and its staff in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Trooper Eamon Hale in the back of the Landcruiser.

(Date taken: 17 March 2010)
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Corporal Shane MacErlean (left) and Trooper David Fyfe prepare to leave the Embassy compound in their Landcruiser.

(Date taken: 17 March 2010)
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Trooper Nathan Sherwood checks his communications.

(Date taken: 17 March 2010)
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Up-Armoured Landcruisers leave the Embassy compound.

(Date taken: 17 March 2010)
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Up-Armoured Landcruisers leave the Embassy compound.

(Date taken: 17 March 2010)
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SECDET personnel drive through the streets of Baghdad to FOB Prosperity.

(Date taken: 18 March 2010)
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Lieutenant Matthew Grantham, the Protected Mobility Troop Leader in SECDET XVI, with other troopers and their up-armoured Landcruiser SUVs at the SECDET's base, Carl Hall, in Baghdad.

(Date taken: 18 March 2010)
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Lieutenant Matthew Grantham, the Protected Mobility Troop Leader in SECDET XVI, with other troopers and their up-armoured Landcruiser SUVs at the SECDET's base, Carl Hall, in Baghdad.

(Date taken: 18 March 2010)
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