![]() RAR QLD Defence News. Iraqi Army junior leaders graduate with a bang 2. Sep 1. 7 (2. 8 Sep 1. Explosions and gunfire rang out at Taji Military Complex in Iraq in mid September as the latest students on the Iraqi Army Junior Leaders course graduated from a 1. Australian and New Zealand military personnel deployed with Task Group Taji have been running the course in conjunction with the Iraqi Army’s Non- Commissioned Officer Academy. The 3. 35 Iraqi Army students demonstrated what they’ve learned throughout the course with a complex activity designed to showcase their combined arms skills. The demonstration began with snipers and simulated mortar fire, followed by infantry soldiers moving in to conduct urban assaults on three objectives. P roduct K ey E xplorer: Product Key Explorer is a powerful product key finder solution for Windows, designed to help users find, recover and backup activation keys. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. 100% Save Game And All Bonus Cars: A Other/Misc Need for Speed: Carbon (NFS:C) Mod submitted by gargar. Engineers breached the doors with explosives before main battle tanks rolled into the area to fend off an enemy counter attack. The exercise finished with a demonstration of combat first aid skills and a helicopter medical evacuation. Invited guests, included high ranking officers in the Iraqi Army, observed as the junior officers and soldiers successfully cleared and secured the objectives. Major Tim Casey, Training Company Delta Officer Commanding, said the course progressed from training in small teams, to platoons, to the combined arms training demonstrated at the graduation. It was great to see the integration of Iraqi Army armour, aviation, and engineers as well,” he said. Following the combined arms demonstration, a graduation ceremony was held where a number of soldiers were recognised for their notable performances during the course. The recipient of the Top Shot award said his training has evolved a variety of his skills, including problem- solving, sniping and leadership. The Top Medic award recipient said that the course had taught him how to be a better soldier. Now, rather than just a medic, I am both a soldier and a medic,” he said through an interpreter. The Junior Leaders course is the third course of this type to be run by Task Group Taji, and it continues to be a success. As well as instructing, the task group’s trainers have been mentoring Iraqi instructors to enable the Non- Commissioned Officer Academy to hold similar courses in the future. The graduating students will now return to their home units with enhanced leadership skills and a greater understanding of how to conduct combined arms combat operations. Many will be heading straight into battle as the fight against Da’esh continues in some areas of Iraq. Defence News and Media. Difficult days sustains lifelong friendships in Timor Leste 2. Sep 1. 7 (2. 7 Sep 1. For LEUT Andrew Vergelius, the recent delivery into Dili Harbour of a deployable hospital and medical supplies provided the opportunity to renew a friendship which began in the turmoil of Timor Leste’s independence in 1. As HMA ships Adelaide and Toowoomba joined Darwin offshore in Dili under Indo- Pacific Endeavour 2. IPE1. 7), LEUT Vergelius took the opportunity to go ashore in a landing craft delivering the supplies for the Timor Leste Defence Force’s multinational engineering exercise Hari’i Hamatuk. His story is reflective around Timor Leste’s struggle to independence with LEUT Vergelius, as a Black Hawk pilot, ferrying locals who required Aeromedical Evacuation from the enclave of Oecussi. In 1. 99. 9, I served in my first operational deployment in East Timor and was stationed out of Dili during the INTERFET campaign,” LEUT Vergelius said. During that time, we flew countless sorties, day and night in challenging conditions to many provinces, providing security overwatch, stores resupply and an Aeromedical Evacuation capability to numerous locals who suffered from a range of tropical- borne diseases.” During landings in the enclave of Oecusse, many local children would come out to the helicopters, sitting and talking with the pilots and crew. Many of these children had lost parents, due to illness or the militia campaign that sought to kill young men and women in night raids on their villages,” LEUT Vergelius said. They had been forced to hide in the caves up in the mountains many kilometres away in order to escape from being killed.” He remembered a little girl nicknamed Noi who, with her brother Ninho, were regular visitors to the Black Hawk crews. One day I saw them approach the aircraft and Noi unfolded a beautiful silk shawl with my name on it,” he said. This was a wonderful gift from young Noi, who hand- made this shawl and presented it to me as a gesture of friendship and goodwill.” “After we left Timor, I didn’t hear from them again and over the years I often wondered what had happened to them.” Over a decade later, LEUT Vergelius received a Facebook message from an East Timorese woman. He was unsure who this woman was until further exchanges discovered she was Noi - the little girl who used come down and meet the helicopters. Somehow over the years she had remembered my name and was grateful that I had played a part in giving them a future,” LEUT Vergelius said. Jump forward to IPE1. HMAS Adelaide glide into the Port of Dili under Operation Indo- Pacific a 2. Onboard one of the vessels is LEUT Vergelius, who steps ashore to reunite with Noi and Ninho. It is an emotional time for the Navy officer, seeing the two children, now adults, again after so many years. In their 2. 0’s Noi had received a scholarship to study a degree in Bali, while Ninho had joined the Timor Leste Defence Force, with postings to the Royal Military College at Duntroon and the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. It is such a wonderful ending for two people who were affected by the loss of their parents and I feel proud that I have become accepted as part of their family and referred to as ‘brother Andrew’,” LEUT Vergelius said. Since reinvigorating our friendship, I have shown both Noi and Ninho photos of our majestic LHD in HMAS Adelaide which I am proud to have the opportunity to serve in.” LEUT Vergelius now is assisting Ninho establish the first international school in Oecusse with a substantial donation of his own money. From the turmoil of Timor in 1. Defence News and Media. Parramatta’s Independence day 2. Sep 1. 7 (2. 7 Sep 1. HMAS Parramatta has enjoyed an Independence Day of sorts, conducting cross- deck training with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Patrol Boat FSS Independence during an international engagement for Indo- Pacific Endeavour 1. Parramatta’s Boarding Officer, LEUT Samantha Mc. Kay participated in the cross- deck exchange aboard the Australian- gifted Pacific- class Patrol Boat, where she gained insight into the training, tactics and protocols of the FSM’s boarding processes. Meanwhile, Parramatta’s Boarding Party, led by ASLT Patrick Brown, conducting a boarding exercise on Independence. ASLT Brown said it was a fantastic and unique international training exercise. When we reviewed the sequence of events used in a boarding we were able to cross- reference our experience with theirs,” he said. As a result, we learnt a lot of things from each other.” LSCD Jackson Sharp was the Second in Charge (2. I/C) for the boarding and facilitated the boarding team training. The opportunity to conduct a boarding on Independence was highly valuable as it allowed all members of the team, experienced or otherwise, to gain exposure to boarding operations on an unfamiliar platform,” LSCD Sharp said. The crew on Independence were extremely engaging and willing to take part in our exercise, which further enhanced the learning opportunities and experience that all of the team gained.” Indo- Pacific Endeavour 2. IPE 1. 7) is an Australian Defence Force (ADF) Joint Task Group (JTG) deployment to the Indo- Pacific region, being conducted from September to November 2. Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercises. Defence News and Media. Australia’s Menin Gate Lions gift strengthens friendship with Ieper 2. Sep 1. 7 (2. 6 Sep 1. Minister for Veterans' Affairs Dan Tehan today announced that Australia would produce replicas of the famous Menin Gate Lions and gift them to the Belgian city of Ieper in recognition of the 1. Australians in Flanders during the First World War. After the war, the Menin Gate became the site for a memorial to those killed in Belgium and who have no known grave. The memorial bears the names of 5. British and Dominion soldiers. The Menin Gate Lions were given to the Australian Government by the City of Ieper in 1. Australian soldiers in Belgium.
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