19 October 2010
Air Load Team Keeps Aid Flowing
A five man Mobile Air Load Team (MALT) are currently deployed to Pakistan to provide support to Op Pakistan Assist II. They are located in Multan where they are responsible for the loading and unloading of aircraft. The team unloaded all the supplies for the set up of the operation from both the Australian aircraft as well as aircraft from other nations supporting the relief effort.
| 20101007adf8485572_055 Leading Aircraftsman Adam Fraser (centre), 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1 AOSS), hands cargo to Corporal Luke Bickerstaff, 381 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron (381ECSS). (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_087 Forklift driver Corporal Michael Godfrey, 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1 AOSS), picks a pallet up at Multan airbase. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_121 Defence members assist Flight Lieutenant Emma Brown (2nd left), 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1AOSS), Officer in Command of the Mobile Air Load Team (MALT), in loading a pallet at Multan Airbase. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_127 Leading Aircraftsman Joshua Neden (left), 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1 AOSS), straps down a loaded pallet with assistance of Airfield Engineer, Leading Aircraftsman Douglas Hicks (centre), 1 AOSS, and Corporal Michael Godfrey (right), 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron, 1 AOSS. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_136 Straping down a loaded pallet is Corporal Luke Bickerstaff, 381 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron (381ECSS), at Multan Airbase. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_248 Mobile Air Load Team Officer in Command, Flight Lieutenant Emma Brown, 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1AOSS), watches as the sustainment flight C130 arrives at the airbase in Multan. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_285 Members of the Mobile Air Load Team (MALT), Leading Aircraftsman Joshua Neden (forground), 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1AOSS), and Corporal Luke Bickerstaff (right), 381 Expaditionary Combat Support Squadron (381ECSS), carry stores from a C130 which has landed at the Multan airbase as a part of the weekly sustainment flight for Operation Pakistan Assist II. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_314 Members of the Mobile Air Load Team (MALT), Leading Aircraftsman Joshua Neden (foreground), 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1AOSS), and forklift driver, Corporal Michael Godfrey (1AOSS), work to unload the weekly sustainment flight, C130, at the airbase in Multan. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_350 Forklift driver Corporal Michael Godfrey, 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1 AOSS), transports a pallet of cargo to the C130. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_455 Mobile Air Load Team (MALT) member Leading Aircraftsman Joshua Neden, 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron (1AOSS), secures a pallet inside the sustainment aircraft C130 at the airbase in Multan. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_474 The first group of Defence personnel board the C130 aircraft on their way home. They were members of the Joint Task Force 636 and the Australian Medical Task Force deployed to Kot Addu to provide medical aid to the flood affected Punjab Region. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_583 Forklift driver, Leading Aircraftsman Adam Fraser, loads a pallet of fresh rations onto a truck. The rations were transported by road to Kot Addu, the location of the Australian Medical Task Force. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20101007adf8485572_633 Corporal Joshua Hampson (top left) and Major Richard Stanworth (top right) pass postal bags to the staff based at Multan. The mail arrives on the weekly sustainment flight and is sorted at Multan before being transported to Kot Addu, the location of the Australian Medical Task Force. (Date taken: 07 October 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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