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Tara Pavel - Tara Pavel of Woolgoolga
Tara Pavel of Woolgoolga is use to juggling large pieces of machinery and people. The 23 year-old Private is a member of the Movement Control Detachment moving based at the Multi National Base at Tarin Kot in Afghanistan.
PTE Pavel is also on her first deployment.
“The most common places I make bookings for are Rome, Germany or to the United States,” PTE Pavel said.
“The most unusual destination request I’ve had to book flights to was a small island off the coast of Brazil. This took the person six flights to get there. He was happy I’d organised the flights for him but he wasn’t happy with what it cost him, but that’s the price he had to pay to get to a bit of a random destination,” she said
PTE Pavel said her deployment to Afghanistan has been a learning experience.
“I’ve not only been deployed to Tarin Kot, but I’ve also worked at Kandahar and the United Arab Emirates,” she said.
“I now have a wider knowledge and understanding of how other movement detachments operate.”
Asked what the highlight of her deployment had been thus far, PTE Pavel said helping Australian personnel get home for compassionate reasons.
“Assisting them to get home as quickly as possible is the most satisfying and important part of my job here,” PTE Pavel said.
“If personnel need to get back urgently I have to be switched on and quickly make arrangements for them to fly home,” she added.