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Warrant Officer Class 2 Daymon Wickens (fifth from left) with personnel from the Republic of Fiji Military Forces Peacekeeping School. NZDF photo.

Fiji military training with NZDF for Golan Heights mission

01/08/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3432 Views 0 Comments Golan Heights, New Zealand Defence Force, Republic of Fiji Military Forces, United Nations Disengagement Observer Force

The New Zealand Defence Force is mentoring Fiji Peacekeeping School personnel, who are training about 150 troops due to be

Captain Demi Exley and and un-named Afghan mentee at Camp Qargha, Afghanistan. NZDF photo.

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Afghan military adopts NZ mentoring philosophy

31/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2635 Views 0 Comments Afghanistan National Army Officer Academy

A female New Zealand Defence Force officer serving in Afghanistan has blazed a trail for mentoring male Afghan Army instructors

Chief Petty Officer Stephen 'Penny' Lane demonstrates the RHIB handling crane on the Royal New Zealand Navy’s new seamanship training facility at Devonport Naval Base. NZDF photo.

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RNZN’s new water-side seamanship trainer commissioned

20/07/201820/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3864 Views 0 Comments Royal New Zealand Navy, Seamanship Training

Sailors from the Royal New Zealand Navy are now able to regularly train at sea without leaving port. CAPTION: Chief Petty

The NZDF coningent that will travel to Belgium to participate in the Beligian National Day Parade in Brussels. NZDF photo.

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NZ Defence Force contingent marching in Belgium

15/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2961 Views 0 Comments Battle of Bapaume, Belgian National Day, Nationale feestdag van België, New Zealand Defence Force

The New Zealand Defence Force will parade a platoon made up of personnel from its three military services led by

An artist's impression of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon. NZDF image.

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New Zealand buying Poseidon

09/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3924 Views 0 Comments Poseidon, RNZAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand government has announced it will purchase four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to replace its ageing P-3K2

Personnel from the New Zealand Army’s 5 Movements Company and the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s No.3 Squadron remove debris from Travers Valley in Nelson Lakes National Park, in support of the Department of Conservation. NZDF photo.

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NZDF supporting avalanche risk survey

06/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2282 Views 0 Comments New Zealand Army, New Zealand Defence Force, NH90, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand Defence Force and Ne Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) joined forces recently to survey potential avalanche risks

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New Zealand’s new Chief of Defence Force

01/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3350 Views 0 Comments Chief of Defence Force

New Zealand has a new Chief of Defence Force after a formal Change of Command ceremony yesterday at Pukeahu National

New Zealand's Chief of Navy Rear Admiral John Martin watches as Royal New Zealand Navy inshore patrol vessel HMNZS Taupo leaves Auckland on a three-month mission to conduct maritime patrols in support of the Republic of Fiji Navy. NZDF photo.

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HMNZS Taupo leaves for Fiji mission

21/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2796 Views 0 Comments HMNZS Taupo

Royal New Zealand Navy’s inshore patrol vessel HMNZS Taupo left Auckland today to spend the next three months conducting maritime

Sixth rotation of New Zealand Defence Force personnel return from Iraq on a Royal Australian Air Force KC-30A.

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Kiwi contingent home from Middle East

17/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2718 Views 0 Comments

About 110 New Zealand Defence Force personnel returned home this evening from a six-month deployment to the Middle East, where

Royal New Zealand Air Force loadmaster Sergeant Dave Wood observes start-up procedures on an RNZAF C-130 in the Middle East.

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Kiwi air team on the job in Middle East

12/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2563 Views 0 Comments Royal New Zealand Air Force

New Zealand Defence Force’s air transport mission in the Middle East got off to a flying start this week, with

A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H(NZ) Hercules ready for departure to the Middle East on an eight-month mission. NZDF photo.

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Another Kiwi air-movements team flies to Middle East

02/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2228 Views 0 Comments air transport team, Royal New Zealand Air Force

A New Zealand Defence Force air transport team is heading to the Middle East this week to support coalition operations

Australian and New Zealand members of Task Group Taji-6 compete in a game of modified rugby league to help raise money for charity on Anzac Day in Iraq.

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ANZACs battle each other for charity in Iraq

01/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2721 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day

The ANZAC bonds between New Zealand and Australian soldiers based at Iraq’s Camp Taji remain as strong as ever –

Major General Tim Gall, Commander Joint Forces New Zealand, and Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector Peeni Henare farewell the seventh rotation of New Zealand troops heading to Task Group Taji in Iraq.

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Kiwi troops leave for Iraq and TG Taji 7

19/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3077 Views 0 Comments Task Group Taji 7

The seventh rotation of about 100 New Zealand Defence Force troops left for Iraq this afternoon to support the continuing

Lance Corporal Mark Goldsmith leads a Maori Cultural Group into Chanak Consular Cemetery in Canakkale, Turkey.

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NZDF honours men who died at Gallipoli in 1918

19/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3649 Views 0 Comments Gallipoli

The New Zealand Defence Force contingent in Gallipoli to commemorate Anzac Day have honoured 11 men who died at Gallipoli

New Zealand Army Explosive Detection Dog Handler Acting Corporal Thomas Hynes (left) along with Australian Army 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment Sapper Guy Phillips, walk through the Athlete’s Village, during a search of the venue for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. ADF photo.

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New Zealand sent explosive-detection dog team to Comm Games

06/04/201806/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3990 Views 0 Comments Commonwealth Games, explosive-detection dog

While more than 6600 athletes compete at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, one of New Zealand Defence Force’s explosive-detection

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Anzacs deliver advanced marksmanship course for Iraqi SF

31/03/201831/03/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3356 Views 0 Comments

Under the instruction of Australian and New Zealand military trainers, selected members of Iraq’s 1st Qwat Khasa Battalion completed an

Royal New Zealand Navy Fleet and Naval Support sailors assembled adjacent to the Devonport Naval base today to formally parade their Colours. Photo courtesy AirflowNZ

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Royal New Zealand Navy parades its Colours

29/03/201829/03/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3879 Views 0 Comments Royal New Zealand Navy

Royal New Zealand Navy Fleet and Naval Support sailors assembled adjacent to the Devonport Naval base today to formally parade

Military women being assessed by 1 NZSAS Regiment to join the New Zealand Defence Force's first Female Engagement Team. Photo ARMYNEWS.

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NZDF women training with SAS for special task

29/03/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 9394 Views 0 Comments 1 NZSAS Regiment, Female Engagement Team

Twenty-three military women were assessed by 1 NZSAS Regiment to join the first Female Engagement Team being built by the

Members of the New Zealand Defence Force maritime surveillance mission in the Middle East. Credit: Australian Defence Force

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NZ MINDEF commends Middle East Orion mission

28/03/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2998 Views 0 Comments CMF, Combined Maritime Forces, New Zealand Defence Force, P-3K2 Orion, Royal New Zealand Air Force

New Zealand Defence Minister Ron Mark has commended the work of New Zealand Defence Force personnel in the Middle East

Royal New Zealand Navy’s offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Wellington in the sub-Antarctic on a resupply mission for the Department of Conservation and MetService. NZDF file photo.

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RNZN on resupply mission to sub-Antarctic

19/02/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3221 Views 0 Comments Antarctic

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is taking 54 government staff and five tonnes of equipment needed to maintain and