Image Gallery 2008
03 November 2008
Trade Training School
Reconstruction Task Force 4 (RTF 4) soldiers have returned home to Australia after a gruelling 6-month tour in Afghanistan.
During the tour, which began in April, RTF 4 pushed deep into the former Taliban stronghold of the Baluchi Valley, denying the area to the Taliban and building a major patrol base – PB Qudus – which split the insurgents and cut their major supply line through Uruzgan to Helmand Province.
The RTF also deployed on an epic 800km short notice operation to re-open the vital Highway 1 from Kandahar to the capital Kabul, fighting through a Taliban ambush on the way, and creating the conditions for a major ISAF operation to install a new turbine at the Kajaki Dam.
RTF 4 has handed over responsibility for its area of responsibility to the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF 1) which began its 8 month tour on 16th October.
| 20081015adf8239682_017 Major General Mike Hindmarsh, AO CSC, Commander of Australian Forces in the Middle East Area of Operations, talks to soldiers from the Trade Training School during a visit to Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2006) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081015adf8239682_057 Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Yeaman talks to the last graduating advance class from the Trade Training School under the 4th Reconstruction Task Force before handing over to the Mentoring Reconstruction Task Force in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081015adf8239682_081 Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Yeaman talks to the last graduating advance class from the Trade Training School under the 4th Reconstruction Task Force before handing over to the Mentoring Reconstruction Task Force in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081015adf8239682_082 Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Yeaman talks to the last graduating advance class from the Trade Training School under the 4th Reconstruction Task Force before handing over to the Mentoring Reconstruction Task Force in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081015adf8239682_190 Major General Mike Hindmarsh, AO CSC, Commander of Australian Forces in the Middle East Area of Operations, talks to soldiers from the Trade Training School during a visit to Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2006) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081018adf8239682_245 A sign at the Trade Training School welcomes friends and guest in English and Pashto. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081018adf8239682_252 Lieutenant General Mark Evans, Chief of Joint Operations visits the Trade Training School with the 4th Reconstruction Task Force before being handed over to the Mentoring Reconstruction Task Force in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081018adf8239682_275 Lieutenant General Mark Evans, Chief of Joint Operations visits the Trade Training School with the 4th Reconstruction Task Force before being handed over to the Mentoring Reconstruction Task Force in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081018adf8239682_277 Air Commodore Tim Owen talks to Lieutenant Thomas Whale at the Trade Training School during a visit to the Mentoring Reconstruction Task Force in Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081018adf8239682_322 Major General Mike Hindmarsh, AO CSC, Commander of Australian Forces in the Middle East Area of Operations talks to Sapper Jamie Tonna in the Trade Training School during a visit to Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081022adf8239682_059 Lieutenant General Mark Evans, Chief of Joint Operations talks to members of the Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) from the Mentoring Reconstruction Task Force in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 02 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081022adf8239682_329 Major General Mike Hindmarsh, AO CSC, Commander of Australian Forces in the Middle East Area of Operations talks to soldiers from the Trade Training School during a visit to Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 08 October 2007) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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