Operation CATALYST: Image Gallery
24 April 2009
Interacting with local children
The Cove is home to the heart of the SECDET team. SECDET members provide security for the Australian embassy in Baghdad.
Rotation XIV is the first SECDET to deploy for eight months, and has been one of the busiest SECDET rotations.
Security Detachment (SECDET) XIV Diggers bonded with Iraqi children when they escorted Australian diplomatic staff to the German embassy in Baghdad’s ‘red zone’.
The infantry and cavalry soldiers provided an outer cordon of protection for personal security detachment (PSD) Military Police, who guarded the Australian embassy staff.
| 20090421adf8239716_015 Australian SECDET XIV, ASLAVs move out of "The Cove" in Baghdad Iraq. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090421adf8239716_022 Australian Secdet XIV ASLAV crew move out of "The Cove" in Baghdad Iraq. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090421adf8239716_057 Secdet XIV ASLAV driver Trooper Reilly Marsh places covers on the .50 Calibre machine gun on return to base. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090421adf8239716_066 Secdet XIV's Corporal Andrew Brydon removes his body armour after returning back to their firm base at "The Cove' in Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090421adf8239716_124 An Australian ASLAV leaves "The Cove" home base to Secdet XIV in Baghdad Iraq. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_035 Security Detachment (SECDET) XIV's Private Robert McNaughton (5RAR) listens in to the ASLAV Crew Commander while traveling Route Irish in Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_064 Corporal Neil Barber checks his ASLAV weapon systems at a short stop at the German Embassy in Iraq Bagdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_072 Secdet XIV's Corporal Andrew Brydon at the German Embassy in Iraq, Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_088 Corporal Jarrod Philbey stands on his ASLAV in Iraq, Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_096 SECDET XIV Private Andrew Logan (L) and Corporal Andrew Brydon (R) are shown the weapons used by the German Embassy close personal protection team in Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_119 A German Embassy close protection team member offers sandwiches to the ASLAV crew who are on task at their embassy in Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_173 A local Iraqi boyat the German Embassy in Baghdad is intrigued by Private John Cannon's velco patches on his body armour. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_184 SECDET XIV Infantry (5RAR) Private Robert McNaughton (standing) and Private John Cannons (sitting) chat with local Iraqi Children at the German Embassy in Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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| 20090422adf8239716_208 Language is no barrier for Private John Cannon when it comes to the world game of soccer, as local Iraqi children living next door to the German Embassy arrive to meet the ASLAV crews from Secdet XIV with a soccer ball in Baghdad. (Date taken: 22 April 2009) Low Res | High Res |
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