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Chorah Valley, Uruzgan, Afghanistan An Australian soldier has been shot in the arm while on patrol in Afghanistan. This is the first Australian casualty in Afghanistan for the year 2011. According to Defence the soldier was work part of Afghan national army patrol in the Chorah Valley in Uruzgan yesterday morning (Afghan local time)...
Australian sailors have stopped a pirate attack on British tanker in the Arabian Sea The guided-missile frigate HMAS Melbourne steamed to the aid of the UK-flagged tanker after it was boarded by pirates on Monday night Australian time. Australian Navy was more than 260km away when alerted to the incident but was able to cover...
Australian Navy chief has issued drug warning to sailors in an open letter to Navy personnel addressing the recent findings of an alleged use and supply of drugs. It has been claimed the drug ring infiltrates all ranks of the navy. Vice Admiral Crane has warned there would be dreadful consequences for anybody who...
Fake World War II Veteran, Arthur ‘Rex’ Crane, Brisbane, QLD. Photo: Dean Saffron An elderly man, Arthur “Rex” Crane who posed as a World War II veteran for 22 years was uncovered of his deceit last year by a military historian, Lynete Silver. 84-year-old man from Brisbane who held a position of the president...
RAAF received four more new Boeing Super Hornet jets. Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft will be replacing the F-111s that served RAAF for more than three decades. Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet, Amberley, QLD
89 members of the Royal Australian Navy on the flight deck of HMNZS Canterbury. Photo: Australian Defence HMNZS Canterbury, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Amphibious Sealift vessel will be home to 89 Royal Australian Navy Officer Cadets and seven other staff members for the next three weeks. The young Australian Officers joined Canterbury in Davenport,...
Former SAS Roy Mayrol, one of the Australian soldiers left for dead in Afghanistan by the Dutch. Photo: Supplied Former SAS soldier Rob Maylor has written a book about his experience during his time in Afghanistan. Where he reveals that Australian Special Forces troops were left for dead by Dutch attack helicopters during a...
Baluchi Valley region where wounded Australian soldier gave himself first aid. Photo: Mick Davis Australian soldier who was shot while on patrol in Afghanistan gave himself first aid, treated his own wound, a gunshot he received on his leg. Soldier kept fighting until his fellow soldier came to his aid. He was later evacuated...
Australian soldiers’ story in Afghanistan. Is this what Australian army chief’s job and responsibility is? Telling soldiers who are risking their lives daily in the enemy territory to defend peace and freedom are being disrespectful when he himself is expressing the attitude by being disrespectful one? This is the abstract from The Australian: Earlier...
Australian Solider in Afghanistan. Defence says the commandos from the elite Special Operations Task Group were acting on the intelligence they received to raid on a compound in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province searching for a senior Taliban leader who was alleged to be hiding in the house. Upon the arrival they were fired on, in...
Tony Abbott meeting Australian troops at Tarin Kowt during his visit to Afghanistan. Photo: Gary Ramage Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has slammed the Gillard government of failing to back three soldiers facing criminal charges over the deaths of Afghan civilians during a night raid hunting for Taliban insurgent. Mr Abbott said, “The last thing...
Australian Troops in Afghanistan Three Australian soldiers, the former members of the Special Operations Task Group are facing court martial, about to be charged over killing of six Afghan civilians in an accidental death that occurred during an armed conflict in Afghanistan. The commandos were in Oruzgan province in Afghanistan going after a Taliban...
Navy patrol escorts recent illegally arrived boat to Christmas Islands. Photo: Australian Navy intercepted another new asylum seeker’s vessel in far north-west coast of Australia. The boat with about 37 passengers and four crew on board was intercepted by Navy patrol boat HMAS Matilda north of Ashmore Islands on Friday afternoon. The recent arrival...
Scherger RAAF base – Weipa far north Queensland. Photo: Defence Labor Government has announced Scherger RAAF base in Weipa far north Queensland to be turned into detention centre to house asylum-seekers. Another failure of Labor Government, no clear judgement on the matter, government who only moves mouth but with no real executable plan or...
An Australian Navy Armidale-class patrol boat, similar to the HMAS Launceston. Photo: Defence 27-year-old, Australian sailor has been found dead onboard Australian Navy border patrol boat Launceston in Darwin. The sailor from Queensland who was just three days away from his 28th birthday was part of 21 sailors and officers HMAS Launceston, Navy border...
Holsworthy Army Base, Holsworthy Southwestern Sydney, NSW Australia. Photo: Dean Lweins. Five men two Lebanese and three Somali men were arrested in a dramatic dawn raids last August in an undercover operation which involved more than 400 police officers from Australian Federal Police, Victoria and New South Wales. Five men Wissam Mahmoud Fattal, 34,...
Funeral service for Jared MacKinney held at Ashgrove Baptist Church. Photo: Glenn Barnes 28-year-old Australia soldier Jared MacKinney who was killed in late August during an intense battle with Taliban insurgents in Oruzgan Province in western Afghanistan was farewelled today. Dignitaries, family friends, army mates and large number of police officers gathered at Ashgrove...
Casket of Jared MacKinney carried by the members of his 6th Battalion RAR at Amberley Air Force base. Photo: Defence / Sergeant Chris Weissenborn The body of 28-year-old Brisbane based 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment soldier Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney arrived home carried by RAAF Hercules aircraft that landed at the Amberley Air Force...
Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney with his wife Beckie and daughter Annabell. Photo: Defence An Australia soldier who was killed during a fierce firefight in southern Afghanistan has been named as Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney. Lance Corporal MacKinney who was married to Beckie MacKinney and father of one was with other Australian soldiers on patrol...
Australian Troops in Afghanistan. Photo: Defence 28-year-old Australian soldier has been killed in an intense three-hour firefight with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal who died in the battle was from Brisbane-Based 6 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment. Soldier’s name has not been published as his family specifically requested that his name be not released...
