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In this issue we meet our Sailor of the Year, talk to the new Commanding Officer of HMNZS Aotearoa and showcase members of his crew. CDR Yvonne Gray talks about empowering women at a Pacific Island conference, our hospitality personnel show their skills at Government House and a mother shares her pride in her son's journey through basic training.
In this issue we showcase HMNZ Ships Te Mana and Aotearoa during Exercise Bersama Lima in Malaysia. We've got lots of people profiles, medics, hydrographers, recruiters and lawyers, and we showcase an apprentice carver's efforts to create a new 'gateway' for our trainees entering the Navy to begin their training.
This edition showcases the Navy's first-ever high-speed tactical boat, the Littoral Manoeuvre Craft. HMNZ Ships Te Mana and Aotearoa visit Vietnam. We meet warfare officers learning their trade aboard HMNZS Taupo, and learn about a reserve unit becoming the subject matter experts for small arms training around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read about the Defence Policy Review and what it means for the Royal New Zealand Navy. Catch up with personnel helping with drug seizures in the Indian Ocean, and showcase our divers and hydrographers exercising in Australia. We talk to our personnel trying out the mobile weapons simulator at Devonport, and meet a high school college student who has joined the Naval Reserves.
Read about the beginning of HMNZS Te Mana’s five-month-long deployment, a Commander’s US Naval War College journey, our Logistics teams supporting a recent visit to Samoa, our newest reservists and so much more.
Read about HMNZS Taupo partnering with the Samoan Maritime Police to patrol Samoa's Exclusive Economic Zone, while a training team from the Maritime Training Group work onshore with the police and fire service to practise boarding techniques and first aid. Also, check out No. 6 Squadron practising mountain flying in Coromandel, our latest graduation photos, reunions in Auckland and Dunedin, and meet a man who wants to see his naval sword passed on to a worthy officer.
In the November edition of Navy Today, read about how HMNZS Te Mana re-establishes aviation combat capability, our Sea Training teams work alongside the United Kingdom and Australia in promoting excellence in sailors, and we throw it back with No. 6 Squadron, who operate the Seasprite SH-2G(I). We go inside the Naval Supply Depot, and meet a hard-working primary school teacher who is training as a Naval reservist.
In this October edition of Navy Today read about our hydrographers and divers locating explosive remnants of war in the waters of Tuvalu, how the sextant remains a vital tool for our warfare officers, assistant law professor Commander Prema McIntosh and her role at West Point, and the story of a Korean War veteran aboard HMNZS Hawea.
In this September issue of Navy Today read about HMNZ Ships Manawanui, Matataua and Wellington supporting our Pacific neighbours. The Sea Safety Training School, new engines, new funnels – we look at HMNZS Te Kaha in drydock, Navy reservists and we introduce ‘Navy Made’, the journey to create a sailor .
In the August edition of Navy Today read about our work at Rim of the Pacific, how we recover an aircraft from the bottom of the ocean, HMNZS Te Mana’s homecoming, our support our Pacific Partners in Niue and more.