Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her. Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, […]
The Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB) was a joint United States, Australian, Dutch and British intelligence and special operations agency during World War II. It was responsible for operating parties of spies and commandos behind Japanese lines in order to collect intelligence and conduct guerrilla warfare against Japanese forces in the South West Pacific. The AIB […]
Hailing from Bundaberg, Queensland, Flight Lieutenant Paige Starwick is an accomplished air traffic controller working for the Australian Defence Force at Darwin International Airport. Presently studying a Bachelor of Economics degree, Flight Lieutenant Starwick is an approach (radar) controller and a keen devotee of the F45 fitness training regime. She’s also played AFL and touch […]
Unaffected by the current COVID-19 restrictions, Exercise Virtual Pitch Black has successfully delivered complex training scenarios in the synthetic environment to maximise interoperability, efficiency and effectiveness for Air Force. Generated from the Air Warfare Centre’s – Distributed Training Centre (AWC-DTC) at RAAF Base Williamtown, training audiences from Amberley and Williamtown were virtually connected in the […]
Top end health nurse practitioner and Royal Australian Air Force reservist Flight Lieutenant Danny Metin is a long way from his Northern Territory home. He is supporting the Victorian Government as part of Operation COVID-19 Assist. As a rural nurse practitioner in Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Flight Lieutenant Metin, from No. 1 Expeditionary Health Squadron, […]
After a 19-year hiatus, Chief Petty Officer Tony Yarnold has re-joined the Royal Australian Navy as a reservist to provide support for Operation Covid-19 Assist. CPO Yarnold moved to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, from Terrigal, NSW, after serving in the Navy for 25 years. He said the opportunity to re-join the Navy and support the […]
On an average day, Air Force Sergeant Carly Formosa patrols the northern suburbs of Adelaide as a constable with the South Australia Police. However, as a reservist, she has been deployed on Operation Accordion as an operations sergeant for the past six months. “I am employed in the Joint Operations Rooms in the Middle East as […]
A life-size mural of a Belgian Shepherd Malinois and a German Shepherd bursting through a wall jumps at you when walking into No. 1 Security Forces Squadron Williamtown’s military working dog section. Military police Corporal Zarah Goldski designed the 2m-wide mural, which was painted on the break room wall in June. A graphic designer before enlisting, Corporal […]
Defence commitments to support state governments through Operation COVID-19 Assist have more than doubled in the past two weeks, rising to about 1700 personnel. Speaking at Russell Offices in Canberra today, Acting Commander Defence COVID-19 Taskforce Major General Paul Kenny said an additional 1000 personnel were ready to deploy to Victoria at the request of […]
Soldiers from 1st Combat Service Support Battalion (1CSSB) were scattered far and wide in support of the Northern Territory Government during Operation COVID-19 Assist. The Darwin-based battalion provided support to NT police at control points along Queensland, South Australian and Western Australian boarders. Lance Corporal Jayden Osborne was a section commander deployed to the NT/SA […]
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