New Zealand Defence Force
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NORTH SHORE CITY — After 25 years in ‘temporary accommodation’, the Navy Museum at Spring Street, Devonport is set to close its doors to the public on 30 April 2010 so that preparations can commence to set up the new Museum at Torpedo Bay.
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The Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral Tony Parr, is hosting the launch of two naval histories, North Sea Warrior and A War By Stealth, written by Gerry Wright.
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Stevin’s family and close friends are devastated by this crash.
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WELLINGTON — A Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopter has crashed enroute from Ohakea to Anzac Day commemorations in Wellington.
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New Zealand Defence Force personnel will join Kiwis around the world in places as diverse as Gallipoli, New York, Beijing, Riyadh; Afghanistan and Timor Leste to mark one of New Zealand’s most significant days; Anzac Day on Sunday 25 April.
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Television New Zealand was named winner of the 2010 Territorial Forces Employer Support Council (TFESC), Employer of the Year Award at a ceremony on 13 April.
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Royal New Zealand Navy Frigate HMNZS TE KAHA and Fleet Tanker HMNZS ENDEAVOUR will depart over the coming week on a four month deployment to Asia, Canada, and North America.
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Colonel Gary Brosnan is welcomed by the Australian Commander of the International Stabilisation Force, Commodore Stuart Mayer in Dili, Timor-Leste.
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CANTERBURY — Army mechanics will turn junk into treasure this weekend in a scrapheap build-off that will see teams use old parts to build working mechanical contraptions set by a panel of judges.
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Veterans Affairs New Zealand (VANZ) reminds New Zealanders intending to travel to Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade safetravel service www.safetravel.govt.nz – the official source of advice for New Zealanders travelling or living overseas.
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What started out as a training exercise on 16 February for the crew of Royal New Zealand Navy Seasprite 04, turned into a real life emergency when a distress call came over the radio.
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AUCKLAND CITY — French Patrol Vessel (FNS) LA MOQUEUSE is due to arrive in Auckland at 9:00 am on Friday 5 March 2010 and will berth at Princes Wharf West.
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While Kiwis in New Zealand are sweltering in a warm late summer, Kiwis with the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan are dealing with thick snow.
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OHAKEA — During training yesterday morning two aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Red Checkers display team touched causing minor damage to one aircraft.
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All War Pensions and Allowances available to veterans will increase from 1 April as part of the annual cost of living adjustment, Minister of Veterans’ Affairs Judith Collins said today.
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WAIOURU — The New Zealand Defence Force is releasing this statement on behalf of the family of Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster who was tragically killed at Waiouru Army Base yesterday.
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WAIOURU — Chief of Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Graham Lintott, has confirmed that at just after 9 am, in the Waiouru Training Area, an unexpected explosion occurred, causing instant and fatal injuries to Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster.
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WAIOURU — The New Zealand Defence Force is investigating the death of a serviceperson at Waiouru Military Camp.
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Army Chef Lance Corporal (LCpl) Steve Hogan has been made a full member of the New Zealand Culinary Team, one of the most coveted culinary honours in the country.
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[3 October 2009] New Zealand Defence Force medical officers using Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft have evacuated injured New Zealanders from Samoa overnight.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) C130 Hercules aircraft that undertook a successful 16 hour medical evacuation flight as been praised by Antarctic staff.
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It’s been nearly 20 years since Buck Shelford terrorised opposition as All Black No.8 and captain, but even today you’ll still see signs in the crowd saying, “Bring Back Buck”.
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OHAKEA — Another 44, mainly Territorial Force (TF), personnel will head to the Solomon Islands on Saturday for a four month tour of duty.
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The first ever NATO Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) to be awarded to a New Zealander was presented to Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Ramsden, MNZM at a special ceremony in Brussels, Belgium.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — After a four month overseas deployment the 231 naval personnel onboard Warship, HMNZS TE MANA and Replenishment Tanker, HMNZS ENDEAVOUR, will arrive home to be reunited with their family and friends at the Devonport Naval Base at 10:00 am on Saturday 4 July 2009.
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29 June 2009 Last night a vehicle-mounted patrol from the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team (NZPRT) in Afghanistan triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) in the north west of Bamyan Province.
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Over 40 secondary school careers advisors will experience the range of careers available within the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) during a visit to camps and bases from 29 June to 3 July.
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For the first time since the commissioning of HMNZS CANTERBURY in June 2007, the ship sailed from New Zealand with two SH-2G Seasprite helicopters embarked to support Exercise Tropic Twilight 2009.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand’s premier Territorial Force unit, the 2nd Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast Battalion Group (2 CANT NMWC) and the oldest unit in the South Island will be marking its 150th year of service to New Zealand over the weekend of 26 – 28 June 2009 with a series of activities in Christchurch.
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A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion has been called on for a second time to assist the yacht, 'Boundless', as it makes its way to Auckland.
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A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion is set to embark on a Search and Rescue mission for a missing yacht between North Cape and Norfolk Island.
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HAMILTON — Members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force parachute display team Kiwi Blue will be dropping in on race goers during the Hamilton V8 Supercar race this weekend in Hamilton.
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Representing the New Zealand Defence Force at the Anzac Day ceremonies at Gallipoli will be a highlight of the year for seven members of the Royal New Zealand Navy Band.
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A Royal New Zealand Air Force P3-K Orion touched down at Kanoya Air Base in southern Japan as part of a short goodwill visit and bilateral engagement with the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF).
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AUCKLAND — In an effort to highlight the benefits of a co-ordinated approach to maritime security, an Air Force Orion landed at Dili and took four Government of Timor Leste officials on a flight around the southern Timor Leste coastline.
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Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral David Ledson says the upcoming delivery of the four new Inshore Patrol Vessels (IPVs) is an important and significant step for the Navy, the New Zealand Defence Force, and the whole country.
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CHRISTCHURCH — On Tuesday 14 April a contingent of 133 New Zealand Defence Force personnel will depart Christchurch International Airport to begin a six month deployment to Afghanistan.
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Employers who are committed to supporting their Reserve Force employees in their workplace were rewarded at a special ceremony at Parliament last night.
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force will be on display at the Omaka air show in Blenheim this Easter weekend.
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The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae has welcomed the appointment of a new Chief of Navy, and Chief of Army.
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An Air Force Iroquois helicopter was involved in the rescue of a possum trapper suspected of cyanide poisoning during the early hours of this morning.
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Linton Military Camp Sapper Paul Davis was named the top individual sportsperson of the year at the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) sports awards last week.
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Up to four Air Force Iroquois together with flight crews and maintenance personnel will be taking part in night flying exercises over the coming weeks.
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Fine dining and scrap heap scrambling may appear to have little in common, except they're just two of the competitive tasks that'll face soldiers of the Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment’s (RNZALR) during their 13th anniversary celebrations at Linton Camp this weekend.
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In front of an audience including their proud families, 71 trainee sailors will graduate from their Basic Common Training at 10.00 am, Friday 27 March 2009, at the Devonport Naval Base.
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is encouraging the public to send a message to Kiwi defence personnel who will be overseas on Anzac Day (25 April).
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TAURANGA — Navy Warship HMNZS TE MANA has left the Devonport Naval Base enroute to her homeport of Tauranga, berthing at 10:00 am on Thursday 26 March 2009.
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CHRISTCHURCH — More than forty New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will arrive home on Wednesday after a four month deployment supporting the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Developing common communications operating procedures to enable military forces in the Asia Pacific region to work together in the event of a major disaster is the focus of a workshop and conference being held in Wellington this week.
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WELLINGTON — Two New Zealand Army infantry companies will this weekend be officially recognised for service in the Vietnam War, with a change of the theatre honour dates for the 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (1RNZIR).
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The annual rugby match between the Senior Men’s Rugby Teams from the Navy’s of New Zealand and Australia will take place on Wednesday 28 May at Vikings Rugby Park in Canberra, Australia.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — This year the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps will officially celebrate its centenary.
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The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) will establish a new position dedicated to seamanship as a response to an independent review, the Navy announced yesterday.
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WELLINGTON — Military veterans who served in the Vietnam War will finally get their official welcome home next weekend in Wellington at Tribute08.
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WELLINGTON — The 10.00am sailing of the Interislander ferry from Picton to Wellington on Friday 16 May set the scene for a combined police Special Tactics Group (STG) and RNZAF Number 3 Squadron counter-terrorism training exercise.
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WELLINGTON — Twenty six New Zealand Defence Force personnel who served in Vietnam were recognised for their service at a ceremony at Defence House in Wellington yesterday.
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WHANGAREI — Taking a weekend break from a busy schedule of diving training in the East Coast of the North Island, the Navy Diving Support Vessel, HMNZS MANAWANUI, will make a port visit to Whangarei from 16 – 18 May, berthing at Port Whangarei at the Northern end of Wharf 2 (opposite the TENIX Ship Yard).
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AUCKLAND — The New Zealand Defence Force has been asked to report back to Cabinet this year with an updated proposed business case for the Royal New Zealand Air Force leaving Whenuapai Airbase between 2014 and 2018.
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HAWKE'S BAY — New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will be leading the way in a joint operational exercise with the Australian Defence Force off Hawke’s Bay this week.
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WHANGAREI — PUKAKI, the third of the four Inshore Patrol Vessels being built entirely in New Zealand by Tenix in Whangarei, was launched in Whangarei Harbour on Tuesday 6 May.
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Up to four Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopters from Number 3 Squadron will take part in night flying exercises around the Wanganui, Waiouru, Manawatu, Horowhenua and Wellington regions from 12 – 16 May.
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HMNZS TE MANA has arrived in her area of operations in the Southern Arabian Gulf and will commence patrolling on Sunday.
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HAWKE'S BAY — New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will be leading the way in a joint operational exercise with the Australian Defence Force off the Hawke’s Bay this week.
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The NZ Army will be training in a town near you as soldiers test their specialist trade skills in an exercise taking place over the lower North Island from 20 May to 16 June.
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The contract signing between the Government and AgustaWestland for the new Training and Light Utility Helicopters marks another step in the building of New Zealand’s military capability.
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CANTERBURY — As New Zealand heads into winter, 148 Navy, Army, and Air Force personnel are looking forward to a six month tour of duty in the more tropical climate of Timor-Leste.
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An Anzac biscuit with healing powers designed by Andrew Lyall, age 11, of Cambridge has won the New Zealand Defence Force’s Operation KIWI competition.
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CANTERBURY — Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ship HMAS MANOORA will be in Cantabrian waters from 8 May as she gears up to provide assistance to a combined military exercise with the New Zealand Defence Force.
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The New Zealand Army has joined with government’s literacy, language and numeracy Upskilling Partnership Programme to enhance its soldiers’ development and provide more fulfilling career paths, says Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor, Commanding Officer of the Army’s Military Studies Institute.
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The New Zealand Defence Force signed a contract with Sinclair Knight Mertz Pty Ltd (SKM) at Defence House in Wellington today as part of the KiwImage project.
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Recruiting the right people and retaining skilled and committed people in the New Zealand Defence Force is at the heart of a new military remuneration strategy, says NZDF Personnel Director Brigadier Mark Wheeler.
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New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel attended a special ceremony yesterday to dedicate a new bronze sculpture of a World War I soldier on Sydney’s ANZAC Bridge.
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It will be an ANZAC Day to remember for the families of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel departing from Ohakea for three months in Timor-Leste.
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WAIOURU — The gallantry medals stolen from the Waiouru Army Museum will be returned to the museum and go back on public display, says Deputy Chief of Army Brigadier Phil Gibbons.
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WELLINGTON — A number of ceremonies will be held in Wellington to commemorate Anzac Day on Friday 25 April.
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OHAKEA — It will be an Anzac Day dawn keenly anticipated by the friends and family of 110 New Zealand Defence Force personnel, when their loved ones return from six months in Afghanistan.
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It was a matter of three services and a government agency pitching in for a common goal when HMNZS CANTERBURY offloaded fuel for the Department of Conservation (DOC) staff on Raoul Island last week.
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New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will be spread from Northland to Invercargill on Friday 25 April providing support to a wide variety of commemorative activities to mark one of New Zealand’s most significant days, Anzac Day.
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NELSON — Engineers from Linton’s 25 Engineer Support Squadron have deployed to Nelson to assist with the construction of a Habitat for Humanity home.
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AUCKLAND — Capturing a unique time in our nation’s military history is the passion of the current New Zealand Army Artist, Captain Matt Gauldie.
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The Court of Inquiry conducted by the Royal New Zealand Navy into the death of AHSO Byron Solomon on 5 October, 2007, will be released today.
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WHANGANUI — Residents of Wanganui should not be alarmed at the sight of a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3–K Orion aircraft flying low over the city tomorrow morning.
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HMNZS CANTERBURY has finished her amphibious uplift during Exercise Croix Du Sud, and New Zealand Defence Force Maritime Component Commander Commodore Tony Parr is impressed.
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AUCKLAND — On Wednesday 9 April a contingent of 124 New Zealand Defence Force personnel will depart from Ohakea Air Force Base to begin a six month deployment to Afghanistan.
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Chief of Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Graham Lintott was yesterday invested as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, ONZM.
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WOODVILLE — Exercise Rapid Lightening will see the Woodville racecourse transformed into a mini Army Camp as it becomes the temporary home for soldiers from the Linton based No 2 Signals Squadron.
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The many New Zealanders who lost their lives fighting on foreign fields are being remembered and honoured in New Zealand Post’s latest Stamp Issue: The ANZAC Series – Stories of Nationhood.
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The Maritime Component Commander of the New Zealand Defence Force, Commodore Tony Parr, has stated that the Navy is well prepared and ready for the task ahead, following the announcement today by Minister of Defence Phil Goff of the deployment of a frigate and supporting elements to the Persian Gulf.
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The Navy’s amphibious sealift ship HMNZS CANTERBURY has completed the transfer of 40 tonnes of equipment and supplies in support of research activities on Raoul Island in the Kermadec Group, approximately 530 nautical miles north east of NZ.
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AUCKLAND CITY — To mark the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), 350 RNZAF Base Auckland personnel will march up Queen Street to Aotea Square on Tuesday 1st April at 11.00am.
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Yesterday morning Afghanistan time, a four vehicle patrol from the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team en-route to conduct a mobile medical clinic was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED).
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New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel are playing a key role in training and modernising the F-FDTL - the former guerrilla army which has become Timor-Leste’s national defence force.
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Six New Zealand Defence Force personnel from the NZ Provincial Reconstruction Team (NZ PRT) contingent in Afghanistan have returned to New Zealand on remand for trial by court martial for alleged drug use.
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WELLINGTON — In ceremonies on Tuesday 1 April, Wednesday 2 April and Friday 4 April, Hon Anand Satyanand, Governor-General of New Zealand, will hold a series of investiture ceremonies at Government House, Wellington.
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is encouraging the public to send a message to the Kiwi troops who will be overseas on Anzac Day.
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AUCKLAND — A history of the service of the New Zealand Artillery from the Boer war to serving on operations like Afghanistan will be launched officially in Auckland on Thursday.
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MASTERTON — Linton’s 2nd Engineer Regiment will welcome Padre Sande Ramage to its ranks with a powhiri followed by a service in Linton Camp’s St Martins chapel beginning at 2:00pm on Wednesday 26 March.
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WAIOURU — The NZ Army successfully tested the Javelin medium range anti-armour weapon (MRAAW) in its first live firing at Waiouru this week.
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The NZ Army is appealing for 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) Infantry Battalion members from both the 2nd and 3rd Divisions to come forward as representatives of their Battalions to be presented with commemorative banners recognising the service of their units.
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