Cavalry Troop Commander Lieutenant Tim Mogridge prepares to leave Kamp Holland.





Major Hugh Meggitt pushes his limits on the bench press at Camp Holland




A dismantled Australian Chinook sits on the tarmac at Kandahar as its British counterparts continue their missions.




Australian Chinook "201" during a mission on 31 March 2007 over southern Afghanistan.





Craftsman Truelove from the Reconstruction Task Force stands amongst a field of poppies in Afghanistan.




Two Chinooks are about to land in the background during the change in command of the Reconstruction Task Force (RTF).





Warrant Officer Class Two Brendan Johnson secures a building at the Tarin Kowt Hospital. A meeting of engineers is taking place inside.





Private Joshua Raward and Private Christopher Wright perform sentry duties at the Talani School while Australian Combat Engineers conduct reconstruction work at the Talani School.

Captain Simon Hompas and Sergeant Colyn Thorogood observe as a 155mm shell crashes into its target outside the wire




Royal Australian Regiment soldiers and Welsh 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers test their strength in a rugby scrum.




Platoon harbour in Oruzgan Province.




Two Australian Light Armoured Vehicles (ASLAVs) being refuelled during operations in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.





Lieutenant Glenn Neilson scans the area with a MAG 58 machine gun during an operation in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.





Some poor bastard sitting on sentry while the others have breakfast




Sapper Peter Lawlis eating a packet of biscuits for breakfast, "Merlin" watches




Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Jackson embedded with Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq (MNSTC-I), keeps his head down in a "duck and cover bunker" with a British colleague, as yet another rocket attack is fired by insurgents into the International Zone (IZ), Baghdad. The IZ is subject to rocket, mortar and small arms attacks on an almost daily basis

Brigadier Rod West, Commanding General Joint Headquarters Transition Team - Iraq, prepares to lift off in a Blackhawk helicopter en route to Basrah in Southern Iraq.




The newly installed Air defence Radar for the RAAF Control and Reporting Centre at Kandahar Airfield in Southern Afghanistan is an impressive sight as it stands atop 'Radar Hill'.




An Australian soldier from 1st Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment dismounts a Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicle, to fire the 84mm rocket launcher at the range in Camp Holland.







ASLAV crew deals with the heat, that even coming from Australia, can be opresive



Two soldiers maintain a watchful eye on the area.




Soldiers keep the out-post construction site secure.




Engineers start putting out wire around a small Australian outpost




An Australian SAS patrol in Afghanistan

Diggers in contact in Afghanistan




Platoon Commander Lieutenant Cliff De Laine during an attack




A Reconstruction Task Force soldier secures the area during the four hour fight with the Taliban extremists.




Private Mark Willson, 36 from Narrewarren (Vic) with Charlie Company 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victorian Regiment (RVR), enjoys a refreshing shower on Guadalcanal



A navy boarding party prepares to go aboard an unidentified vessel in Australian waters




Areas marked in yellow are areas patrolled by the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Airforce and the Australian Army to prevent illegal fishing, illegal immigration and terrorism.

add in the NZ eez and you have a significant portion of the ocean having to be patroled




also semi related, i see the Japanese whaling fleet is heading south again...grrrrrrr

Yeah no doubt our navy and customs lads will be out and about in the Southern Ocean flexing some maritime muscle

5th Aviation Regiment technicians tow a Black Hawk Helicopter onto the tarmac at Townsville ready to deploy to Papua New Guinea





C-130 J Hercules Pilot, Flying Officer Adam Bendeich, from Singleton, conducts his regular instrument check on the way to Papua New Guinea, with Flight Lieutenant Brent Barker, a Doctor with the 2nd Air Transportable Health Squadron, as they head towards Papua New Guinea in the first Australian C-130 J Hercules sent as part of Operation PNG Assist.






An F111 pilot and Air Combat Officer of No.6 Squadron prepare for a night sortie




Military working dog handler Corporal Tricia Reynolds with military working dog Duke, patrolling the ordnance loading area at RAAF Base Townsville




The Governor General Major-General Michael Jeffery salutes the Guidon carried by Captain Matthew Colquhoun as it passes the dais during 5 Aviation Regiment's 20th birthday and Guidon parade on November 20.





Royal Australian Navy boarding parties mounted in RHIB's in Northern Australian Waters




"Second to None"; Captain Lachlan McKenna of the 2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), addresses the friends and family at the memorial service for Private Ashley Baker, speaking briefly about the soldier in Calliope near Gladstone (QLD). Pte Baker died in East Timor.




Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Peter Leahy, AC salutes with Commander of 1st Division, Major General Richard Wilson, AM, and Commander of 3rd Brigade, Brigadier John Caligari DSC AM at the playing of the last post for Private Ashley Baker, at the Calliope cemetery, in Central Queensland.

Andy the EOD dog KIA in Afghanistan




A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-17 Globe Master from Number 36 Squadron to be deployed on a humanitarian mission, pulls into Port Moresby International Airport, Papua New Guinea, to start unloading 14 large pallet loads of medical aid for local villagers affected by the devastating floods of cyclone Guba.




An M113 does a stern door change over from an LCM8 to HMAS Manoora.




Private Jamie McDowell from 30 Terminal Squadron, directs an amoured personnel carrier driver as it reverses onto a landing craft medium at Whyalla during Exercise Sea Eagle.




Commando Luke Worsley who was killed during a night attack on a Taliban position is carried onto a C-17 by his fellow Special Forces Task Group operators.





A gun section from 48 Field Battery fires a salute for HMAS Adelaide




Staff from Navy Headquarters South Australia pay marks of respect as HMAS Adelaide sails past.



Pte Worsley's body arrives home to waiting family, friends, the chief of the army, and other dignitaries from the Commandos.

A soldier with Delta Company, Timor Leste Battle Group 3, talks to local children during a routine patrol in the Western Districts of Timor Leste.





The visit also afforded the Ship the opportunity to exercise it’s right of Freedom of Entry through the City, a right that the ship had exercised on many previous occasions since it’s first on the 20rh February 1982. On that first occasion the Ship had received its Charter, but on this, the final entry, the Charter was returned to the Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Mr Michael Harbison.

HMAS Adelaide will enjoy a six day port visit to Adelaide, South Australia, reinforcing the ties held between the ship and her namesake town.

The visit will provide an opportunity for the Ship’s company to say farewell to the people of Adelaide prior to decommissioning of HMAS Adelaide, early 2008.

The ships company of HMAS Adelaide march down King William Street in Adelaide. HMAS Adelaide is being decommisioned shortly.

During her commissioned lifetime HMAS Adelaide has enjoyed numerous overseas deployments including the Persian Gulf, Northern Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. HMAS Adelaide was one of the first RAN ship’s ordered to the Persian Gulf following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. HMAS Adelaide is also the ship that rescued stricken yachtsmen Tony Bullimore and Thierry Dubois from the Southern Ocean in January.



Members of the HMAS ANZAC doing PT on the flight deck while on Ops in the persian gulf




A Soldier from the Second Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment and a local interpreter take to a foot patrol due to the condition of the road leading out of the Timor Leste village of Oetapo during a routine patrol out in the western districts of Timor Leste.




Sergeant Steven Attleir is a member of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, part of the Security Detachment, and is preparing RPG-18's for destruction in Baghdad.




Legal officers in war zones.... hmmm





Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team members (from left to right) Sergeant Steven Attlier, Corporal Carl Connel and Corporal Damien Woolfe receive their US Army Commendation Medals.






HMAS Adelaide patrols the waters around the oil terminals in the North Persian Gulf during Operation Catalyst.

bloody good photos there nick
one question, where the hell do you get them all from
dave