Operation CATALYST: Image Gallery
04 June 2008
OBG(W) Drawdown in Full Swing
Members of the 101-strong Force Extraction Team, based at Tallil Air Base in southern Iraq, are packing up the hundreds of thousands of items that have kept the Australian Overwatch Battle Group running as a highly efficient military machine.
From generators and ammunition to Australian Light Armoured and Bushmaster vehicles, the equipment is being catalogued and loaded into shipping containers and onto trucks for the long journey back to Australia.
Some months ago the Diggers had handed over responsibility for security in Al Muthanna and Dhi Qar provinces to retrained Iraqi security forces. They have now handed over their residual "overwatch" and training responsibilities to soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.
| 20080602adf8143085_002 In Tallil, southern Iraq, a locally-engaged truck driver signs for his cargo, one of the Australian Battle Group's Bushmaster infantry mobility vehicles. It is the first stage of its journey back to Australia. to be transported out of Tallil. (Date taken: 02 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080602adf8143085_010 Australian Bushmasters are secured on the trucks ready for transportation out of Tallil in southern Iraq. (Date taken: 02 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080602adf8143085_033 Australian Bushmasters lined up ready to be loaded on to trucks for transportation out of Tallil. (Date taken: 02 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080602adf8143085_041 One by one the Bushmaster infantry mobility vehicles are loaded onto waiting trucks, ready for transportation out of Tallil (Date taken: 02 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080602adf8143085_073 Chained down and ready to start the long journey home, Australian Bushmaster infantry mobility vehicles are secured for transport out of Tallil in southern Iraq. (Date taken: 02 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080602adf8143085_074 An Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) is carefully driven onto a truck for transport out of Tallil. (Date taken: 02 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080602adf8143085_096 The locally-engaged truck driver begins the task of securing an Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) on the first leg of its journey home from Tallil, southern Iraq. (Date taken: 02 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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