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Australian Army soldiers from the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, move on foot into the isolated community of Gipsy Point, north-west of Mallacoota, Victoria, to provide health support. Photo by Major Gavin Cole.

Op Bushfire Assist 10 January UPDATE

10/01/202011/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2449 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Operation Bushfire Assist 10-20 is currently the Australian Defence Force’s main effort, with several thousand full-time and reserve personnel providing direct support.

Leading Seaman Medic Abbey-Rose Yeoman and Red Cross volunteers fill out evacuation registration forms for the Mallacoota residents. Photo by Leading Seaman Shane Cameron.

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy Videos

Choules’ evacuees comforted by multi-agency support

10/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3773 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

For evacuees on board HMAS Choules, the journey was made easier by the presence of people from other agencies who helped the ship’s company look after them.

Private Brodie Scott is thrilled to be home in Mallacoota to help her community after the devastating fires. By Pilot Officer Brent Moloney.

Australian Australian Army News Operations Videos

Tears flow for Army driver reunited with parents in Mallacoota

10/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3279 Views 2 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Tears flowed for one Aussie soldier reunited with her parents in Mallacoota when she choppered as a ‘called-out’ Army Reservist on Operation Bushfire Assist

Royal Navy Pilot Lieutenant Commander Nick Grimmer in an 808 Squadron MRH90 Taipan helicopter over the Grose Valley bushfire in the Blue Mountains National Park. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Brett Kennedy.

Europe News Operations Royal Australian Navy

British Navy pilot sees Australian bushfire action

10/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3527 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

A Royal Navy helicopter pilot on exchange has helped save countless lives from the apocalyptic bushfires devastating Australia.

The Bragg family celebrate Tiffany's 12th birthday with their new Navy friends at the HMAS Harman bushfires evacuation centre.Photo by Lieutenant Ben Robson.

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy

Navy helps girl celebrate 12th birthday in evacuation centre

10/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2895 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

The candles on bushfire-evacuee Tiffany Bragg’s birthday cake have shed a little light onto a special day – even if in a temporary home called HMAS Harman.

An LCM8 transits from HMAS Choules to HMAS Cerberus to disembark evacuees from Mallacoota during Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20 as the ship takes on supplies via the ship's MRH-90 helicopter. Photo by Petty Officer Helen Frank.

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy Videos

Second evacuation by “Mallacoota Ferry” complete

09/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2047 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

HMAS Choules – now affectionately known as the “Mallacoota Ferry” – has conducted a second evacuation from Mallacoota in Victoria’s East Gippsland region.

Australian Army veterinarian Captain Garnett Hall (left), Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park owner Dana Mitchell and Private Alexie Tarasov from the 10th/27th Battalion, Royal South Australia Regiment, bandage one of many koalas that suffered burns at the park during the bushfires. Photo by Corporal Tristan Kennedy.

Australian Australian Army News Operations Videos

Perth veterinarian with Army Reserve on Kangaroo Island

09/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3558 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Perth veterinarian and Army Reserve infantry officer Captain Garnett Hall is treating injured wildlife during the bushfire recovery on Kangaroo Island.

Corporal Dan Conelly, an Army Reservist from 3rd Field Squadron, 10th/27th Battalion, Royal South Australia Regiment, works to remove a burnt tree from a farm’s access road on Kangaroo Island. Photo by Corporal Tristan Kennedy.

ADF Australian Australian Army News Operations Videos

Big push in bushfire recovery on Kangaroo Island

09/01/202009/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1854 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

More than 100 Army Reservists are working with local authorities to provide assistance to bushfire recovery efforts on Kangaroo Island.

Embarked nursing officers Lieutenant Commander Thomas Miller (front) and Lieutenant Travis Robinson in HMAS Adelaide's treatment room. Photo by Able Seaman Thomas Sawtell.

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy Videos

Personal connection motivates medical personnel

09/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1639 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

A key component of the ADF response to Op Bushfire Assist are the medical services provided by doctors, nurses, paramedics and support personnel of the Navy

Lance Corporal Trent Hewitt in front of a Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle – Ambulance at the evacuation centre in Batemans Bay, NSW. Photo by Sergeant Max Bree.

Australian Australian Army News Operations Videos

From servo operator to serving the nation

09/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3073 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Driving his Bushmaster ambulance, former servo operator now LCpl Trent Hewitt passed the devastation of his home town travelling with an Army medical team.

Two Australian Army CH-47F Chinooks filled with supplies for isolated areas in Victoria depart RAAF Base East Sale, which has become a key and very busy air-operations hub. Photo by Corporal Nicole Dorrett.

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Air Force Videos

East Sale becomes busy bushfire air hub

09/01/202009/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2409 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

RAAF Base East Sale has become a key and very-busy air hub for the ADF air operations during Operation Bushfire Assist in Victoria.

Lance Corporal Damien Ewin reduces bushfire-damaged trees to manageable pieces for disposal during road clearance operations near Ilford, NSW. Lance Corporal Ewin is an Australian Army Reserve engineer, from the 5th Engineer Regiment, – and also owner of Premier Defence Agencies and long-time advertising supporter of CONTACT. Photo by Major Cameron Jamieson

Australian Australian Army News Operations Videos

Reserve engineers working and learning on road gangs

09/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2809 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Army Reserve engineers are assisting local authorities in central NSW to make roads safe from trees that have fallen or were weakened by the bushfires.

St John Ambulance Registered Nurse Diana Wong chats with Australian Army medic Private Brenden Walker from the 1st Combat Health Battalion at Batemans Bay. Photo by Sergeant Bill Solomou.

Australian Australian Army News Operations Videos

Army medical team treat civvies in Batemans Bay

09/01/202009/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4641 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Stories of burnt homes and shattered lives have been shared with an Army medical team, in a departure from the usual tales of soldiers’ training injuries.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force NH-90 is unloaded off a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III aircraft at RAAF Base Richmond during Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20. Photo by Corporal Nicci Freeman.

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Air Force Videos

Globemaster delivers Kiwi helicopters for Bushfire Assist

08/01/202011/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3167 Views 3 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

A RAAF C-17A Globemaster delivered the first of three Royal New Zealand Air Force NH-90 helicopters to Australia as part of Operation Bushfire Assist.

HMAS Adelaide as seen through the bridge window of MV Sycamore in Twofold Bay, New South Wales. Photo by Commander Brinckmann.

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy Videos

HMAS Adelaide on standby as safety island

08/01/202009/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1959 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

Royal Australian Navy’s largest ship, HMAS Adelaide, joined HMAS Choules and MV Sycamore in support of Operation Bushfire Assist earlier this week.

No. 23 Squadron air movements personnel load an Australian Army 6th Engineer Support Regiment water purification system on to a C-17A Globemaster at RAAF Base Amberley, destined for Kangaroo Island off South Australia. Photo: Corporal Jessica de Rouw.

Australian Australian Army News Operations Royal Australian Air Force

C-17 delivery turns sea water into drinking water

08/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2599 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

A RAAF C-17A Globemaster has flown from Brisbane to Adelaide with a water purification and desalination system (WPDS) to supply drinking

An Iraqi Army M1A1M Abrams tank provides cover during a Junior Leaders Course combined-arms training assessment at the Taji Military Complex, Iraq. Photo by Able Seaman Chris Beerens.

ADF Australian Middle East News Operations

Iran fires ‘more than a dozen missiles’ at coalition forces in Iraq

08/01/202008/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2006 Views 0 Comments Operation Okra, Task Group Taji

The Pentagonsays that at 1.30am local on 7 January, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq.