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    12 May 2010: Patrol Base Atiq into Sinha of Mirabad Valley, Afghanistan, with Afghan crops reaching knee high in the green zone,First Mentoring Task Force soldiers are increasing the patrol tempo in an effort to drive the insurgents from local villages

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    Quote Originally Posted by digrar View Post
    I'd like to see the Captains mag change drill.
    Probably the only one he has left with his basic pouch left wide open.

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    Quote Originally Posted by digrar View Post
    I'd like to see the Captains mag change drill.
    I'd like to know why he's got his neck protectors on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slouch View Post
    Whats the current entry stream for JTACs? Are they taking ex-Arty JTACS or only RAAFies?
    They can come through the Artillery stream. You have to have done all your courses and be highly recommended, as the courses are hugely expensive to run and have a high fail rate.

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    Default Exercise Hamel 2010

    Two-hundred-and-twenty paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, dropped in to exercise Hamel 2010, the most complex training activity ever undertaken by the Australian Army.

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    Default Joint Terminal Attack Controller Course - 2007



    A student on the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Course (JTAC) using UHF radio during an assessment in the High Range Training Area.


    A student being assessed by Captain Weir during a phase of the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Course (JTAC).


    Lieutenant Myors relays timings required via radio to the Joint Offensive Support Team nearby and two F/A-18 Hornets overhead, with an instructor assessing his progress, during the last week of the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Course in the High Range Training Area at Townsville.


    Lieutenant Myors conducts one of the many assessments during the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Course (JTAC) in the High Range Training Area at Townsville.


    A student on the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Course (JTAC) run by Forward Air Control Development Unit describing the target location to F/A-18 Hornet conducting close air support overhead.

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    US DoD footage. Watch for the guys with the wheelbarrow.

    http://www.dvidshub.net/video/106169...wt-afghanistan

    B-roll of how a Provincial Reconstruction Team builds a bridge near Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. Due to a strong Taliban presence in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, some missions of the Provincial Reconstruction Team have been put on hold and are now revisiting. Includes sound bites from Australian Capt. Ryan Orders, Senior Project Engineer, Uruzgan Provincial Reconstruction Team, Darwin, Australia. Produced by Lance Cpl. Nick Neighbors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vor033 View Post
    Fark that was a boring ex, at least from our point.

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    from everyones point.... the less said is better, apparently.

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    I'll say one thing you know what boredom is when you start turning every tree within a 30m radius into totem poles.

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    The enviro officer will be along shortly to take your details...

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    From spanish forum "fotosdebarcos.com" and the photographer "romarin"
    HMAS Canberra






    Regards

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    Quote Originally Posted by digrar View Post
    The enviro officer will be along shortly to take your details...
    It's alright I got my certificate to say it was approved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLUE THOR View Post
    from everyones point.... the less said is better, apparently.
    Sounds like that alround, A mates high point was our JAV teams knocking a few Abrams only to being taken out before the kills could be verified (because apparently taking out Abrams would have altered someones plans for the exercise)

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