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Wrecks reveal themselves to HMNZS Manawanui
There are a lot of fun jobs in the Royal New Zealand Navy, but exploring shipwrecks that might still have gold in them has to be near the top of the list. Last month HMNZS Matataua’s divers and hydrographers got to grips with the complex technology.
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New Zealand’s gateway to Antarctica
Christchurch is one of only five gateways in the world to Antarctica and it’s the Harewood Terminal team who work behind the scenes to help make New Zealand’s contribution to Operation Antarctica possible.
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NZDF to march at Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant in London
New Zealand Defence Force personnel are readying themselves to take part in one of the world’s biggest celebrations – Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant to mark her 70 years of service on the throne.
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RNZAF crew finds survivors on two boats missing near Kiribati
Crew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion have found two missing boats within 10 nautical miles of each other, dropping survival kits with water and locator beacons to those on board.
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NZ Army Engineers help rebuild Fijian school buildings
New Zealand Army Engineers are in Fiji working on the rebuild of Lekutu Secondary School with a multinational Combat Engineering Team led by the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
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Heads up at airdrop exercise
The skies above Base Ohakea were filled with the unfamiliar sounds of the Hercules aircraft recently, as the crew from Base Auckland made the Manawatu region home for Exercise Skytrain.
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Antarctic fuellies – first in, last out
A team of six Air Force senior aviation fuel specialists and a New Zealand Army petrol operator made their way to Antarctica for the 2021/22 summer season to offload a combined 8,324,000 US gallons (USG) of fuel to last the programme up to 24 months.
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Army breaks new ground in New Caledonia exercise
The New Zealand Army has returned to field training in the Pacific after two years spent protecting New Zealand’s borders from COVID-19, participating in the French Armed Forces New Caledonia (FANC) multinational Exercise Tagata’toa for the first time.
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If she can do it, I can do it
In the world of clearance diving, females are rare. We talk to Royal Canadian Navy divers Sarah Gunderson and Katrina Koch-Underhill, seconded to HMNZS Matataua.
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Official release of all NZDF personnel from MIQ duties
Today marked the official withdrawal of NZDF personnel from Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) duties.