Latest Australian Defence Force Pics 05/08/07

[AussieNick]

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.

 

[AussieNick]

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

 

[AussieNick]

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

 

[AussieNick]

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.

 

[Infern0]

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

 

[AussieNick]

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

 

[AussieNick]

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.

 

[AussieNick]

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.

 

[AussieNick]

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.

 

[SigJohnson]

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

 

[AussieNick]

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

Dept Of Defence

 

[AussieNick]

Private Adam Marsh from the Brisbane-based 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, as part of the 1st Reconstruction Task Force provides a security screen during a patrol to visit the nearby Tarin Kowt hospital and police station in southern Afghanistan.

Lieutenant Daniel Le Breton updates Head Quarters as soldiers from the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, part of the 1st Reconstruction Task Force provide a security screen during a reconstruction mission, conducting repairs and maintenance in the Oruzgan Province.

Trooper James Head from 2/14 QMI rests on arms during the Sunnyside memorial dedication service in Iraq

Driver Craftsman Ruan Westermann and Craftsman Chris Wright, smoke it up as they entertain the crowds at the Canberra Summernats in the "Armygeddon" street machine built by the Australian School Of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering

Collins Class Submarines, HMAS Rankin, HMAS Waller and HMAS Collins transitting in formation through Gage Roads, Cockburn Sound.

HMAS Collins transits through Cockburn Sound at sunrise.

An Australian Multi-Role Helicopter (MRH 90) in flight above Brisbane.

An MRH-90 flying over Brissy

 

[AussieNick]

A blackhawk from 171 Aviation Squadron conducts counter-terrorism ops in urban sydney

The Commander of the International Stabilisation Force, Brigadier John Hutcheson makes a speech to the New Zealand Defence Force during a traditional Powhiri ceremony in Kiwi Lines, Dili, Timor-Leste.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Minister for Defence Joel Fitzgibbon address members of the Overwatch Battle Group (West) at Ali Air Base, Tallil in Dhi Qar Province, southern Iraq, while on a visit to the Middle East Area of Operations.

General Officer Commanding Multi National Division (South East) Major General Graham Binns (centre) presents Private A Francis with a commendation for exemplary service during the Transition of Authority Parade from Overwatch Battle Group (West) - Three to Overwatch Battle Group (West) - Four at Australia's Camp Terendak, at Tallil in Southern Iraq.

The Govenor General, General Michael Jeffery, AC CVO MC (retd) addresses the ADFA Graduation parade on 13 December 2007.

Personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assist Group (SPAG) jump out of a SK50 Sea King Helicopter in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia as part of Exercise Pacific Reach.

Soldiers from the Second Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment assess the road damage leading out of the Timor Leste village of Oetapo during a routine patrol out in the western districts of Timor Leste.

HMAS Maryborough is the newest Armidale Class Patrol boat to enter service in the Royal Australian Navy, sails under the Sydney Harbour Bridge

 

[Team Infidel]

another great batch of pics

 

[AussieNick]

Chief of Army Lieutenant General Peter Leahy with the ARH Tiger, personnel and pilots on show at Summernats.

Major Matthew Campbell (right) and Sheikh Ali Manshed (behind), greet local players after the opening of a new soccer field.

Timor-Leste Battle Group 3 Vehicle Mechanic, Craftsman Adam Walsh (from 1 armoured), works on a vehicle suspension arm in the vehicle maintenance hangar at the helicopter base in Dili, Timor-Leste.

New M113-A4 delivery taken. The new vehicles are upgraded with new drive-train and engine, spall liner, track shrouds, extended with an additional road wheel, new motorised 1 man turret, with M2HB QCB, and other additions such as interior fit-out and pack storage.

 

[Wallabies]

Gonna love that pack storage.

 

[bigcanada813]

those are some great pics there, AussieNick

 

[AussieNick]

Sergeant Michael Lyddiard prepares to return to work at 3rd Combat Engineer Regimentwith the support of his wife Katri, after losing an eye and an arm caused by an exploding IED that he was trying to defuse.

Good on you Sarge. I have huge respect for this guy. He has said that despite the injuries he has suffered it hasn't changed his love of the Army or his desire to serve in any way he can. What a champion.

An ASLAV-25 and an ASLAV-PC drive out of the smoke in Dhi Qar province in Iraq

Corporal Andrew Gellert in Dhi Qar on top of his ASLAV-PC

Captain Chris Seebohm glances around while reloading .50 cal ammo on his ASLAV

A Bushmaster IMV from the 6th Battalion Royal Australia Regiment moves along a road in Dhi Qar

Trooper Robert Doncaster from 2/14 Queensland Mounted Infantry provides top cover for his ASLAV convoy

The ship's company of HMAS Adelaide march past on the dock of HMAS Stirling. HMAS Adelaide is being decomissioned after 27 years of service. The ship is a guided missile frigate and has served in both gulf wars (op Damask and Catalyst) and has been deployed on Op Slipper in 2002. HMAS Adelaide also saw duty in many peace keeping and peacetime operations world wide.

Captain Mick Koen talks with a local in the Chora Valley, Afghanistan

 

[Team Infidel]

hooah..............

 

[AussieNick]

Assault Pioneers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment flip a RHIB the right way up during in theatre continuation training in Timor

The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force General Dan McNeill (left) and the Deputy Commander Joint Task Force 633 - Afghanistan Brigadier Stuart Smith (right) congratulate Signaller Tuam Nguyen (17th Signal Regiment) on receiving the NATO campaign medal for Afghanistan.

Corporal Kevin Dellaway, a Load Master with Townsville based 5th Aviation Regiment, looks at flood damage in the Clermont area.

A Black Hawk prepares to take off, after dropping a load of emergency fodder to a property in the Clermont area.

Australia Day East Timor. Beach cricket.

Timor-Leste Battle Group 3, Assault Pioneers (2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment) take a break from their Water Operations Continuation training, being conducted in the district of Liquica, west of Dili.
The Townsville-based soldiers decided to get into the spirit of Australia Day early, with improvised beach cricket on the Liquica foreshore.
Wicket Keeper, Private Kalan Woodman with opening batsman, Corporal Mark MacArthur.

HMAS Adelaide, the RAN's oldest frigate departs fleet base west, en route to Sydney for the final decomissioning.

The body of Lance Corporal John Gillespie is brought home from Vietnam by members of 1 CSSB after he went MIA in 1971 when the UH1 Huey he was flying in was shot down over Southern Vietnam. He was a medic from the 8th Field Ambulance and was trying to evacuate a wounded ARVN soldier near the Long Hai hills. There is currently a campaign on to find then bring home Australian's who are missing in action.