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25.01.2022 A privilege to be accompanied by distinguished guests and thank a generation who were called to serve. Seventy five years ago, a weary Australia laid down its a...rms and felt the first, joyous stirrings of peace. An entire country had been called to serve, and answered the call with courage, endurance, mateship, and sacrifice. A great victory had been won at great cost. Nearly a million Australians enlisted to serve. Almost 40,000 lost their lives in the performance of their duty. Millions more stepped up to serve their country in its time of need whether as volunteers, sparing what they could in donations, or doing what needed to be done to fill the gaps left by those deployed to fight. We remember them all. It was a truly national effort. We are proud of their service, and the spirit they embodied is alive today. We honour them through being of service once again to our country, our communities, and each other.

24.01.2022 #YourADF is embarking upon a regional deployment to conduct exercises in Southeast Asia and Hawaii over the coming months. The Regional Presence Deployment 202...0 demonstrates our commitment to sustaining strong positive relationships with regional nations, as well as the security and stability of the Indo-Pacific region. Watch the video on your YouTube channel https://youtu.be/qE8KQf9QCNw.

24.01.2022 A little know event but one we must remember - lest we forget

21.01.2022 Soldiers from 8/9 RAR have been enjoying three weeks of jungle training in Tully, where it rarely stops raining. Here you can see the pure joy in Private Mclacklands face

21.01.2022 School of Infantrys Instructors conduct backcountry skiing and alpine survival at Mt Kosciusko National Park. - Duty First!

20.01.2022 At 101 years young, Sergeant Bert Le-Merton (retd) completed a 96km walk to raise funds for the veterans' charity Soldier On Australia. On October 10 he walked ...through a guard of honour provided by Australia’s Federation Guard, having raised more than $84,000. His target was $10,000. Read Bert's story: https://news.defence.gov.au//wwii-veteran-completes-epic-w #AusAirForce

20.01.2022 New parade drills for 2020!! Welcome all to the family.

20.01.2022 Good work Blue!! Please share your Units Mascot stories and history as we would like to include some in our next magazine out in September.

20.01.2022 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment's new Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle dominated the beach on Exercise Sea Wader

19.01.2022 Secretary of Defence Australia, Greg Moriarty & I are pleased to launch one set of values for One Defence and all its people; we serve together, we defend together, we are stronger together. Service, Courage, Respect, Integrity, Excellence. : https://bit.ly/DefValues

18.01.2022 Great training for Battlegroup Rams Combat Team Commanders today; providing Concept of Operations Back Briefs to Hardrock over a mud model. Working closely with Offensive and Manoeuvre Support elements to build our combined arms teams.

18.01.2022 The School of Infantry’s Combat Shooting Instructor Course qualifies leaders to conduct Enhanced Combat Shooting Courses in their units. #DutyFirst! #FutureReady

18.01.2022 Military Working Dogs from the 1st MP Battalion, Colt and Volt, have been very good boys helping 8/9 RAR with their Jungle Training in Tully

18.01.2022 Ok pros and cons both - go

17.01.2022 LEST WE FORGET | Today we remember Private Tomas Dale and Private Grant Kirby. Private Dale and Private Kirby were serving with the 1st Mentoring Task Force whe...n they were tragically killed in action as a result of the explosion of an Improvised Explosive Device on Friday 20 August, 2010. Twenty-one-year-old Private Dale was from 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. He was born in Lancashire, the United Kingdom in 1989, immigrated to Australia with his family in 2003 and lived in Adelaide, South Australia. He joined the Army in 2007 and in the same year successfully completed his recruit and infantry basic training prior to being posted to the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. It was Private Dales first operational deployment. Private Kirby was born in Nambour, Queensland in 1975. He joined the Army in 2006 and in the same year successfully completed his recruit and infantry basic training prior to being posted to the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. He was qualified as an Assault Pioneer and as a commander and driver of the Protected Mobility Vehicle. This was Private Kirbys first deployment to Afghanistan, although he had deployed previously to East Timor and Iraq. #LestWeForget #WeWillRememberThem

17.01.2022 #TBT to the 2020 Australian Army Skills at Arms Meet (AASAM)! Held earlier this year, AASAM tests #OurPeople to find ADFs champion shot and to select the Au...stralian Army Combat Shooting Team to represent us in future international marksmanship competitions. Congratulations to 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, for taking out Champion Unit of the competition, and congratulations to everyone who participated. #GoodSoldiering

16.01.2022 Corporal Nathan Cramer from the 8th/9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment with the Black Hornet Reconnaissance Drone.

16.01.2022 Old friends, Australian Army Brigadier Ed Smeaton and Private Conar Partridge, have been reunited at Camp Qargha in Kabul, Afghanistan, during their deployment ...to Operation Highroad. Task Group Afghanistan Commander, Brigadier Smeaton, has known Private Partridges parents, Mitch and Karen, for 37 years. I remember when I was eight-years-old, Brigadier Smeaton came for a visit and gave me a sticker from the unit he was posted to at the time," Private Partridge said. "The last time we saw each other I was still in high school about to enlist in the Army. Im lucky to see him here in Afghanistan and Im privileged to serve knowing he is my senior Australian commander." Read more about their connection and military journey https://bit.ly/qargha #YourADF #AusArmy

16.01.2022 While soldiers from 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment are supporting the nation on Operation COVID-19 Assist, soldiers from 1st Battalion, The Royal ...Australian Regiment are deployed to Operation Highroad as part of Force Protection Element 14 (FPE-14). #Ourpeople are providing protection and protected mobility support to Australian and Coalition forces as they train, advise and assist the Afghan security forces. Joint Operations Command Australian Defence Force in the Middle East

15.01.2022 #NOISEALERT || Shout out to the residents in South-Western and Western Sydney! Some of our troops will be conducting training over the next week in your area. T...here will be helicopters flying at night and early in the morning, at a low altitude. Please ensure you let your family, friends and any neighbours know that this training will be occurring. This training is part of #AusArmys regular training schedule and is designed to ensure #OurPeople are operating at the highest level of capability to respond where required, to support Australias national interests. We acknowledge that these activities may result in disturbances to local residents. This disruption will be minimised wherever possible. You should not be alarmed if you see low-flying helicopters or hear the associated noise. We appreciate the support of the local community during this important training period. The training is being conducted in a manner that accounts for COVID-19 restrictions and good health management processes. Individuals with concerns should contact Defence via: 1300 333 362.

14.01.2022 #OurPeople, from 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment are preparing for their deployment to Afghanistan on Operation Highroad. By undertaking realistic mis...sion rehearsal exercises, our people will be #ReadyNow and #FutureReady for their role in training the next generation of Afghan National Army officers. See more

14.01.2022 8/9 RARs mascot Stan the Ram was walking around like he owned the place with hair longer than the allowed 4cm. Thankfully the RSM quickly put a stop to it. Stan received his Army issued haircut later that day

14.01.2022 #YearInReview || As an #ArmyInMotion, we continue to enhance our capabilities to be both #ReadyNow and #FutureReady. 2020 saw the #AusArmy bring in a number of new capabilities, including the Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle. Check it out in action on Exercise Sea Wader below!

14.01.2022 Here we have one of the Australian Army’s finest weapons. Handcrafted and perfected after years of trial and error, and highly effective in combat. The other thing is an EF88 Austeyr Rifle.

13.01.2022 #YourADF continues to support through #COVID19 and we’re now prioritising helping Australians return home. You can expect to see our men and women in uniform supporting states and territories welcoming those coming home. #OpCOVID19Assist

13.01.2022 Well done to all.

12.01.2022 #OnThisDay one year ago, #YourADF Reservists were formally called out for the first time in Australia’s history to provide support to state and local authoritie...s during #OpBushfireAssist. At its peak, Operation Bushfire Assist saw more than 6,500 personnel provide support as part of emergency relief, response and recovery operations. Thank you to all Australian Defence Force members, and #OurPartners from around the world who supported the domestic operation. #GoodSoldiering

12.01.2022 Congratulations to Armys newest soldiers, the women and men of 25 and 26 Platoons Charlie Company on completing the Army Recruit Course today! Award winners: 2...5PL: Baird VC MG Award for Most Outstanding Soldier SIG Fintan Meadows, RASIGS Skill at Arms CFN Benjamin Lindsay Eather, ASEME Most Outstanding Recruit at PT PTE Maximus Yiannis Kapnias, RAINF 26PL: Baird VC MG Award for Most Outstanding Soldier SIG David Wells, RASIGS Skill at Arms PTE Ethan Grundy RA Inf Most Outstanding Recruit at PT PTE Noah Hunt, RA Inf Photography: www.sharpshotimages.com

11.01.2022 Exercise Hard Corps at the School of Infantry is the final test of combat mindset and endurance to qualify soldiers after 16 weeks of Infantry training. - Duty First!

11.01.2022 To our Australian Defence Force families, during these extraordinary times of #COVID19, I thank you for your support to our military force. On behalf of #YourADF, we appreciate the sacrifices you are also making to support our national #COVID19 effort.

11.01.2022 The many smiling faces of Tully. Soldiers from 8/9 and 6 RAR returned home from Jungle Training last week and were happy to get a good feed and a shower. See if you can spot a mate living the dream in this photo series

10.01.2022 Caption this 8/9 RAR are having the time of their lives conducting Jungle Training in Tully. Its hard to see in the photo, but this soldier cant wipe the smile off his face

09.01.2022 Corporal Antony Byway from the 8th/9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment briefed our Commander, Brigadier Jason Blain, on the some of the equipment used by the Direct Fire Support Weapon Platoon.

09.01.2022 Our military force is strengthened by our cooperation and partnership with international colleagues. A pleasure to speak with Brigadier Lord Fielakepa CDF HMAF about #YourADFs commitment to maintaining our Defence Cooperation Program activities, as we work through #COVID19 together.

08.01.2022 Same location, 101 years apart. During the deadly 1919 flu pandemic, the Australian military supported NSW police at border checkpoints, like this one near Dele...gate, NSW. A century later, Defence is again supporting police at Delegate as part of #OpCOVID19Assist Our people, #YourADF, are here to help!

08.01.2022 Gotta love a good cadence song! No punching those arms through left and right shoulder pocket height though...

07.01.2022 Bula Bula Bula - to our Fijian brothers thanks for all your help.

07.01.2022 As an #ArmyInMotion, we continue to develop our capabilities to become #FutureReady. #OurPeople recently commenced training on the new Boxer 8x8 Combat Reconnai...ssance Vehicles. The new capability, which will replace the current Australian Light Armoured Vehicle, will provide our teams with increased protection, lethality, connectivity and mobility on the battlefield. To read more about the training, head to https://www.army.gov.au//boxer-program-reaches-new-milesto.

06.01.2022 It's been a big year for the 7th Combat Brigade. From supporting bushfires, the COVID-19 effort, and plenty of training in between. Here are some of your favourite photos from 2020

06.01.2022 Infantry. Artillery. Armour. Engineering. Air Support. Logistics. Communications. The entirety of capabilities from across our Brigade (and then some!) came tog...ether during Exercise Brolga Run to conduct complex training in combined arms combat teams to ensure we are prepared for any possible scenario. This training culminated in a combined arms live fire exercise, Long Khanh, led by the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. #alwaysready #goodsoldiering

06.01.2022 As an #ArmyInMotion, we support our nation and local communities while remaining focused on the future. The Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Rick Burr, AO, DS...C, MVO, and Regimental Sergeant Major Army, Warrant Officer Grant McFarlane, OAM, recently visited #OurPeople in Adelaide to see these concepts in action. During the visit, the Chief of Army sat down with soldiers from across 1st Brigade - Australian Army, 6th Brigade and 9th Brigade - Australian Army to discuss the extraordinary year #AusArmy has had so far. The leadership team also had the opportunity to hear about the latest technology updates from the Defence Science and Technology Group, and view a number of critical capabilities across the Brigades.

05.01.2022 #BrisbanesOwn Direct Fire Support Weapons Platoon have recently been busy testing and refining their standard operating procedures.

05.01.2022 The Obiwan Nairobi Limited Jedition kit continues. What an honour to be entrusted to design and make some of these pieces for our mates. Legends. I thought we ...were releasing this today, apparently yall have to wait, so stand by, stand by Limited Edition Multicam Black and Multicam Arid @multicampattern #obiwanairobi #limitedjedition #whowillyousend #pilgrim #wanderer #peacekeeper #uksf @ Hallam, Victoria, Australia See more

05.01.2022 Exercising in the Philippine Sea with our US and Japanese partners. An important opportunity in support of our shared views of a prosperous, open & stable regio...n. More: https://news.defence.gov.au//australia-japan-and-us-exerci Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force U.S. 7th Fleet U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Royal Australian Navy Australian Army Royal Australian Air Force

05.01.2022 ON THIS DAY: The evacuation of ANZAC forces from Gallipoli was approved by the British Cabinet on 7 December 1915. By December 20, 142,000 soldiers had been eva...cuated with only about half a dozen casualties. It is generally accepted that about 134,000 people died during the campaign: 8,700 Australians; 2,700 New Zealanders; 27,000 non-ANZAC Empire troops; 9,000 French and French Colonial troops; and 86,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. Thank you all for your service and your sacrifices, and may you rest in peace. Lest we forget. As part of the attempts to disguise the evacuation plans from the Turkish forces, the ‘drip-rifle’ was designed to maintain fire from the trenches after the withdrawal of the last men. Two kerosene tins were placed one above the other, the top one full of water and the bottom one with the trigger string attached to it, empty. At the last minute, small holes would be punched in the upper tin; water would trickle into the lower one, and the rifle would fire as soon as the lower tin had become sufficiently heavy. The rifles could be left to operate 20 minutes after the device was set. It was said to be invented by LCPL W.C. Scurry of the 7th Battalion, AIF, with assistance from PTE A.H. Lawrence. For the part he played in making the evacuation a success, Scurry was mentioned in dispatches, awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, and promoted to sergeant. Friends of this page have told us this is where the term "Scurry off" comes from.

04.01.2022 Today, on #MemorialDay we pay respect to the brave men and women of the USA who made the ultimate sacrifice in service. Thousands of and servicemen and wo...men fought side-by-side in major conflicts over the past century. We owe those men and women a great debt. We will remember them. Thank you for your service U.S. Army U.S. Navy United States Air Force U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Coast Guard United States Space Force U.S. Secretary of Defense Australian Army Royal Australian Navy Royal Australian Air Force

04.01.2022 Nice work for our brothers in the UK

04.01.2022 Mud models remain a great support to orders and visualisation of the plan. Well done to Charlie Company on continuing to train this important skill as part of the orders process.

03.01.2022 Soldiers from the 8th/9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment welcomed our Commander, Brigadier Jason Blain, for a capability brief last week.

03.01.2022 An article published on 4th January 1916 looked back on the changed landscape of Anzac following the evacuation. DESERTED ANZAC. WHAT THE TURKS FOUND.... HONEY-COMBED HILLS. (By Melbourne Argus Reporter. Recently at the Front). In leaving Anzac our troops must have experienced mingled feelings of satisfaction and regret. No one in his right mind could have been anxious to remain there a moment longer than duty demanded. Yet there were ties binding all ranks to the zone which had been bought with so much Australian blood. Of course, it will have been generally understood by this time that our hold on Gallipoli was always most precarious. If was as if a desperate man climbed up over the edge of a precipice, and stood there defying all efforts of opponents to shove him off. Now the Australians have stolen away from Anzac, after an eight months' occupation. It is remarkable that they were able to stay there so long. Probably no other military force could have accomplished what our men did at Anzac, and none could possibly have done better. The bitterness of it all is that the effort has been wasted that one of the most heroic exploits of history has ended in nothing. It seems to have been a prophetic coincidence that only a few weeks ago what was originally known as the Mediterranean expedition', was renamed. When the Turks swarmed over the deserted territory, which had been the uncomfortable home of our soldiers, they would have found much that must have been interesting, even to .such battle-scarred veterans. The maze of trenches, communication saps, and tunnels that honeycombed the hills would reflect more than anything else the tireless energy of the Australians. Scarcely a square yard of the Anzac area had escaped pick, shovel or axe, and on all sides high explosive shells from the Turkish guns had torn gaping craters in the loosened soil. Only a closely prospected mining field like Bendigo or Castlemaine could convey any idea of the amount of digging the Commonwealth troops carried out between their periods of fighting and trench duty. TRACKLESS, HILLS. When the landing parties first rushed across the beach they climbed precipitous hills cloaked by dense scrub between masses of prickly undergrowth. Not a single track was to be found; not an opening to indicate that man or beast had attempted to cross the switchback country since the dawn of history. As soon as the gallant Australian brigades had established themselves on the ridges, however, they commenced to burrow, lying prone. Every second man scooped out a hole for himself with his entrenching tool while comrades held the owners of the country at bay. Then they took it turn about. Everyone was content with only head cover during the first night in April, but, by steady evolution, these shallow ditches were hollowed out into kneeling positions, and finally became fine trenches, hiding our men up to their ears. In those terrible days at the beginning, men, by necessity, scraped out shelters, in some instances, with their finger-nails, while others made use of clasp knives, bayonets, and scraps of tin. No sooner were the front lines consolidated than support trenches were excavated, and joined up by saps at frequent intervals. The cuttings were always deep and very narrow, in order to neutralise shrapnel fire, and they were never straight. Instead, they formed a kind of ornamental design, with recesses and traverses, zig-zagging in regular waves to protect the fighting men from cross fire or enfilade. So the underground ways grew and extended, until, in some of the more exposed positions, there were row, on row of them in the valleys. However, men were still dropping from snipers' bullets, and more saps were cut to shelter them. Steadily these extended, weaving on to each other and crossing in all directions, until they formed a tangle. Within a few weeks of the occupation it was possible to move from one end of Anzac to the other without once showing the head above ground, and so hundreds of lives were saved. Then the valleys were turned into paths for mules and guns, and a wide artillery road was constructed from the beach and round the trenches on the right. Here and there the ridges were pierced, and shelving; tracks were carried through them. Tunnels were driven from the firing-lines to observing posts, from which the enemy could be watched without suspecting it, and secret subterranean machine-gun positions were cut out. Then the hillsides were terraced to provide level spaces, on which the troops could rest, and 30,000 caves were shaped in the precipitous places, where tired soldiers could imagine they were at home when they had their eyes shut. Last of all came the wonderful road to the left. SURPRISING TRANSFORMATION. No habitation of civilised men could ever be quite so weird as Anzac when the Turks came to view the country that had been given back. to them. They were able to move with much greater facility than when they fled over it before the gleaming Australian bayonets in the early spring. Practically the whole of the vegetation had long since been used to boil billies or to disguise bully beef as rissoles and stew. The country had been opened up within a few months more thoroughly than any tourist resort in as many years. The transformation must have come as a complete surprise to the enemy. A large reservoir had been established in Headquarters Gully about 300ft. above sea level, great sheets of iron. having been riveted together by our engineers, while the sound of bullets and shells drowned the clang of their hammers. Lower down on the beach was the pumping-station, where the drinking water was forced through, pipes away out to Reserve Gully on the left and into Shrapnel Gully on the other side. Nests of tanks had been established at the end of the reticulation system, and many a time they have been punctured when water has been more precious than gold. Watson's pier was not very long, but it reached out far enough to make the feeding and equipping of Anzac's defenders moderately certain. The pier had been built in circumstances that it would be difficult to equal. The timber was towed ashore under fire early in May, and for every plank laid down a man was sent to hospital or to his rest. The Turks were firing 8in. shells from Chanak at the time, and one of them buried itself in the sand near ten patient workers without exploding. For days there had been need of a pile driver, and here was one almost providentially supplied by the enemy. The projectile was dug out from beneath 20ft. of sand. The fuse was extracted, and from that time onwards the process of construction was facilitated. Another pier was built up out of sunken barges, and, at the end of another row of these a flag station for naval purpose was established. Close by was the central signal cabin, from which radiating telephone and telegraph wires brought the most distant points of Anzac into close communication. There are perhaps 600 miles of wire stretched across the deserted territory for conversational purposes, just as millions of heaped sandbags mark the parapets of the trenches, and form the barriers of the danger zones. It is estimated that the saps and tunnels measure roughly 300 miles between them. VALLEY OF THE DEAD. In Shrapnel Gully at a spot where spent bullets always dropped thick and fast, the Turks would find the Anzac Cemetery, where a thousand heroes are at rest. Some of the graves are marked with improvised monuments, more pretentious than the little white crosses that indicate the others. A few have borders of stones around them, and indigenous plants sprout from some. But fallen comrades were never forgotten by the Australians, and there were never signs of neglect anywhere. About the hills are many lonely mounds, with the mortal-remans of brave men beneath them, relics of the earliest fighting, when there was only the smallest time for ceremony or sentiment. The Turks by now have discovered these graves of the fallen, and here is not the slightest doubt but that they will be regarded with all due reverence. The Turks throughout have proved themselves to be chivalrous foes, and they have shown the same respect for our dead as for our living, though from different motives. In front of Walker's Ridge and Steel's Post, and about Lonesome Pine trenches there would be many gruesome discoveries for the enemy on their first tour of inspection around the evacuated position. For months bundles of rags, with crinkled boots at one end, and a felt hat covering a skull at the other, have lain in all directions between the opposing lines. There were 300 at one point and over 50 at another, and almost as many at the third, indicating where Australians fell in the deadly charges of early August. About Lone Pine the ghastly remains of friend and foe were indiscriminately mixed. With a periscope it was easy to see them in the fighting days, but, any attempt to recover the bodies meant certain death, so they have lain in the same positions as they fell in the heat of action, and it will devolve upon the Turks to bury them decently. Most of the fallen soldiers still have identity discs about their necks, so it will be comparatively easy to indicate the spots where they have been interred; and the enemy can be trusted to do that. Surveying the scene of the Gallipoli Sphinx, the Turks will look down on half a dozen masts sticking above the waters of the Aegean Sea, where mine-sweepers and pinnaces have gone down in action; and the relics of the bivouacs will be found scattered everywhere. It will be a desolate scene and, even the most vivid imagination will be unable to reconstruct the picture of throbbing activity that was its order during the Australian occupation. In a few weeks the rains and snow will come and wash away the signs of our soldiers' hard work; and in the spring, the rhododendrons, the holly, the olives, the scarlet pimpernel, and the wild poppies, and the hundreds of other varieties of vegetation will burst forth once more, and indications of battle will disappear. [1] [1] 'Darling Downs Gazette' (Queensland), 4th January 1916. Image: 'The Graphic,' 23rd October 1915.