Edition 1443 June 13, 2019 The soldiers’ newspaper

SPRINT FINISH

Exercises Diamond Sprint, Southern Jackaroo and

Carabaroo ready soldiers for Talisman Sabre

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A 6RAR officer disembarks a US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey during an urban assault on Raspberry creek, Shoalwater Bay Training Area.Photo: Cpl Tristan Kennedy

Flt-Lt Chloe Stevenson

HEALTH, logistics and communica-tions teams worked around the clock to keep Australian and international troops fed, watered, healthy and in contact on Exercises Diamond Sprint, Southern Jackaroo and Carabaroo in May.

At 450,000ha of bushland, six times the size of Singapore, the Shoalwater Bay Training Area is one of Australia’s largest military train-ing areas.

The massive scale of the area provides real-time challenges for supporting elements of the exercise to hone their trade skills as well as field-craft.

Lt Lucas Price, of 1CHB, said when supporting an activity with so many moving parts, including live-fire, the medical team’s presence was very important.

“We are providing integral and close health support to the 7 Bde units, conducting their training in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area,” Lt Price said.

“Day to day, the treatment team that we have here can provide a resuscitation capability as well as all primary health care presentations. We also have a limited holding capabili-

ty, which can hold up to four patients, from 24-48 hours, depending on their priority and depending on the sever-ity of the patients as well.

“I think it provides the com-mander a level of peace of mind, knowing that health support is taken care of and it’s one less thing that they have to focus on during the conduct of the training.”

Lt Luke Goyne, of 7CSR, said the exercises enabled them to test their equipment and profes-sional skills in a controlled environment, before doing it for real on operations.

Without phone signal, the deployed personnel rely on com-munications provided by his team to co-ordinate exercise serials and enable logistics and road movements.

“The most important thing we do is enable the higher command group to liaise with each other to create plans, for the present and the future,” Lt Goyne said.

“We are providing communica-tions to the brigade to enable them

to speak to the battle-groups and beyond, utilising unit node communications and re-trans.

“It is particularly hard in this train-ing area, due to the large amount of high features. Especially the re-trans capabili-ties we are using, to pick the gaps and the features, so we can use them strategically whilst also enabling communications throughout that battlespace.”

Combat service support teams (CSST) have pro-vided vital food, water, ammunition, passenger and equipment lift, and maintenance support fuel to more than 2000 deployed military mem-bers across the vast training area.

Cpl Natalie Briskey, a section

commander in 7CSSB, said the CSST had moved into their field location that very morning.

“Today we have occupied a defensive position. We have moved in as a CSST which involves tactic-ally entering an area, sighting vehi-cle positions, creating a defensive posture with shell scrapes so we can defend ourselves from enemy fire.

“We have a supply element out there, Q-Store, transport element, resupply with rations, water and fuel assets and we also have a workshop, providing support to the brigade with those varied elements.

“It’s stinky, hot work but every-one is still in good spirits, everyone has been putting in well and our drills have been well practised.

“I am feeling really comfortable with the way we have established this position.”

Cpl Briskey finished on a reflec-tive note, considering the large effect she believes logistics can have on the outcome of any conflict.

“I often think about a quote that is along the lines of, ‘If you are going to hurt the enemy, take out their logistics’. Without logistics, you cannot fight,” she said.

“I just feel that is intrinsic to what we are.”

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MORE than 1200 members from 7 Bde converged on Central Queensland for Exercise Diamond Sprint at

Shoalwater Bay Training Area in May.Diamond Sprint was a

combined-units training activity and 7 Bde’s

largest formation-level exercise of

the year. It culminated in infantry conducting assaults with artillery, tanks, engineers, logistics and com-munication elements in support.

CO 8/9RAR Lt-Col Steve Dickie said the exercise ensured troops were brilliant at the basics, experts in their individual craft and skilled in supporting the team in a combined-arms environment.

“Over the series of two weeks, the battalion will progress from section live fire by day, section live fire by night, a platoon live fire incorporating engineer breach and culminating in combat team live-fire activities involving armoured assets, artillery assets and then engineer assets,” Lt-Col Dickie said.

“The end state for 8/9RAR, as part of Exercise Diamond Sprint, is to certify, in particular, C Coy to be ready as part of the Ready Battlegroup for the remainder of 2019.”

Chap Lionel Orreal, the bat-

talion’s padre, said the soldiers of 7 Bde had an excellent attitude throughout the exercise.

“It started off a bit slow as the concept of training is crawl, walk, run,” Chap Orreal said.

“But they are now into the run-ning stage where they shoot live rounds on open ranges and they are absolutely loving it. This is exactly why they join the Army.”

Chap Orreal said that being out in the field with the soldiers gave him opportunity he would not have elsewhere to provide pastoral care.

“This has been a great opportu-nity for me as a padre,” Chap Orreal said.

“The CO has been very keen to ensure that the presence is there and that is when the soldiers actu-ally open up, when they are applying their craft.”

The exercise was the final oppor-tunity for 7 Bde units to train togeth-er before it plays the enemy force against Darwin’s 1 Bde in Exercise Talisman Sabre in July.

Exercise Diamond Sprint was held at the same time as two major international engagement activities: Exercise Southern Jackaroo and Exercise Carabaroo, involving the United States Marine Corps, Armed Forces of the Philippines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

In the roughDiamond Sprint readies 7 Bde for Talisman Sabre, Capt Anna-Lise Brink writes.

Flt-Lt Chloe Stevenson and Capt Anna-Lise Brink

EXERCISE Diamond Sprint has raced by with units from 7 Bde con-ducting individual and combined training at Shoalwater Bay in May to maintain currency as the Australian Army Ready Brigade.

The two-week exercise pro-gressed from dry, blank to live-fire scenarios for individual units and culminated with live-fire combined-arms training in which brigade units work together, using their own skills and equipment, to accomplish a com-mon mission.

Maj Chris Stuart, of 6RAR, said Diamond Sprint was an important exercise for the brigade.

“Diamond Sprint is a 7 Bde activ-ity that sees all of the units up here in Shoalwater Bay Training Area con-ducting individual unit level train-ing,” Maj Stuart said.

“This particular activity we have had here is the culminating event that brings different units together to put our effects in the same place at the same time.”

The live-fire combat team attack included M1A1 Abrams support from 2/14LHR (QMI), M777 howit-zer artillery fire from 1 Regt, RAA, and a mechanised breach of a fence line, enabled by engineers from 2CER.

This was the first time 2CER had conducted a mechanised breach in a combined-arms setting.

“In order to maintain a rapid rate of advance, we utilised engineers based in M113s to breach obstacles in a much faster fashion,” Maj Stuart said.

“It allows the engineers some degree of protection to push right up to the obstacle, get out very quickly,

Run, crawl, walk, sprint

lay the explosive charge and get back in their vehicles. They only need to be 25 metres away from the obstacle when they blow that Bangalore tor-pedo, so it allows us to not have to play with significant distances with the protection from the vehicle.”

Rifleman Pte Lewis Grant, of 6RAR, said the exercise was an opportunity for soldiers to learn some new tricks of the trade.

“It’s good getting on the tools with the boys, doing our stock-stand-ard infantry stuff,” Pte Grant said.

“Every now and then, here and there, you pick up little tips and tricks from guys that have been here a bit longer than you, guys that know stuff you don’t. So it is always good coming together and doing our bread-and-butter stuff like this.”

Comd 7 Bde Brig Andrew Hocking said it was the individual and collective training among soldiers that made Diamond Sprint valuable.

“I watch them train every day. The Australian soldier is something

I am very proud of. They are intel-ligent, they are innovative, they are adaptive and they are humble enough to learn,” Brig Hocking said.

He said the exercise allowed the brigade to rebuild knowledge and confidence in live firing as well as re-establish the integration of com-bined-arms effects after a busy 12 months with units on operations and brigade contingency planning.

“It was really important that we found ourselves time with teams in order to re-establish our foundation warfighting skills to not only ensure we remain ready but also to set those foundations for future success,” he said.

“Like our Australian soldiers, the US marines, Filipinos, Japanese and Fijians all demonstrated a 100 per cent commitment to self and col-lective improvement, which is why we’re natural partners in the region.

“We share these values of hard work and commitment not only nationally, but as fellow soldiers.”

A soldier from 8/9RAR, throws a grenade at an enemy pit during live-fire infantry training during Exercise Diamond Sprint.

A soldier from 8/9RAR assaults an enemy pit during live-fire infantry training during Exercise Diamond Sprint at Shoalwater Bay. Photos: Cpl Tristan Kennedy

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A FIRST for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) took place on Australian soil, with the firing of an FH-70 howitzer out to 25km at Shoalwater Bay Training Area on Exercise Southern Jackaroo.

There is not a military range large enough to shoot that distance in Japan.

Capt Yutu Goto, a JGSDF fire direc-tion officer, conducted the long-range shoot and said the opportunity to conduct the shoot in a large Australian training area had been beneficial.

“We were very excited to conduct the shoot and very appreciative to be able to do it in Australia,” Capt Goto said.

“It has been a very valuable experi-ence working alongside the Australians, mainly due to their discipline, the differ-ent kind of drills conducted for their fir-ing in Australia and being able to observe that.

“Each soldier has been able to learn from each other. The main thing has been the drills, but also the safety features that the Australian soldiers prioritise.”

Soldiers from 7 Bde helped facilitate the live-fire activity and were honoured to be part of the historic moment for the JGSDF.

Capt Josh Childs, a battalion battery

MORE than 700 soldiers from Australia, the US and Japan battled through the Shoalwater Bay bushland on a major trilat-eral military field exercise in May.

During Exercise Southern Jackaroo soldiers from 7 Bde, US Marine Rotation Force – Darwin and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) came together to conduct field and urban assault training, engineer clearances and artillery serials that culminat-ed in a coordinated trilateral live-fire delay mission.

The exercise tested the three nations on their abil-ity to adapt their logistical, administrative and com-munications systems together, to function as one team.

Every soldier and unit involved benefited from the valuable lessons, according to Capt Doyle Beaudequin from the hosting unit – 6RAR.

“What I learnt in this exercise is the other nations plan and process information differently and you need to communicate to them a bit differently to how you would an Australian soldier,” he said.

“Training with the US marines and the Japanese is really important because if we do have to fight beside them in the future, we know what to expect and we are better prepared to work with them.”

Marine Capt Chris Cracchiolo said the exercise provided an insight into the Australian and Japanese militaries.

“I think the partnership piece is the biggest deal that we are doing here,” Capt Cracchiolo said.

“If we can work together and learn each other’s crafts, each other’s trades, if God forbid we are called to fight, we can.

“Even just working through simple things that we don’t think of, like coming here and working with our communications. Just being able to work those kinks out now in a training environment is really beneficial for everybody.”

Capt Cracchiolo said he was impressed with the Japanese and Australian soldiers.

“The Japanese are disciplined soldiers, the Japanese do camouflage very well,” he said.

“There were some tactics and techniques that we can take away from them, specifically with their cam-ouflage, their noise and light discipline in the field.

“They are outstanding operators at night.”He said the Australian military had learnt how to

adapt and work in the difficult terrain every day.“We could tell by just working with them and

being with them, that they were used to working there

Southern Jackaroo tests interoperability of regional forces, writes Flt-Lt Chloe Stevenson and Capt Anna-Lise Brink.

Relationship goes great lengths

Test of trust

A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldier inspects the chamber of a FH-70 howitzer.

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commander from 1 Regt, RAA, said the landmark achievement for the JGSDF provided opportunities to share know-ledge between the different nations.

“It’s a significant milestone in train-ing with the Japanese; the ability to shoot 25km is growing more and more impor-tant on the modern battlefield,” Capt Childs said.

“There are a few minor differences in the way they do things but what we are seeing is the way we conduct ourselves and the way they conduct themselves has many similarities.

“They are very methodical in the way they go about conducting their serials.”

Comd 7 Bde Brig Andrew Hocking said the exercise built rapport between Australian and Japanese soldiers.

“I think there is genuine warmth in the relationship at the solider-to-solider level,” Brig Hocking said.

“While we speak different languages, eat different foods and are culturally dif-ferent, we share a lot of values and at the end of the day we are all soldiers and that brings us all together.”

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Flt-Lt Chloe Stevenson

IN TODAY’s world of irregular warfare, understanding how to navigate and fight in an urban environment is more crucial than ever.

Exercise Carabaroo, run by 7 Bde for the first time, developed those skills with troops from the US, Australia and the Philippines.

The participants conducted multilateral urban warfare training to develop drills, enhance interoperability and increase lethality within the urban environment.

The three-week exercise began with live-fire close combat range shooting before progressing through a series of urban operations training serials at both the Gallipoli Barracks and Shoalwater Bay urban operations training facilities.

Comd 7 Bde Brig Andrew Hocking said the exercise culminated with a co-ordinated trilateral assault on a fictional urban village under siege by roleplaying enemy forces.

“This all started days ago,” Brig Hocking said.“The team did their planning, battle procedure, rehears-

als, flew in using US Marine Corps Ospreys, marched on to the objective and then fought through the urban village as three nations side by side.

“They are all obviously now in the process of learning and listening to each other’s lessons and hopefully getting better by hearing that.

“Carabaroo is about learning from each other, building trust in each other, understanding each other’s different cultures and shared values and then bringing that together in a high-end combat scenario, probably the most complex of them all in urban warfare.”

Lt-Col Tommy Crosby, an operations officer with the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said the urban assault training would have a real effect on their ability to conduct operations in their home country.

“It’s important for us, especially as our warfare now is a changing environment,” Lt-Col Crosby said.

“We are now conducting operations in urban areas. Just like what happened in our southern area in the Philippines.

“The training is the best welfare we can give to our men. We really need to enhance our skills, particularly in urban operations. This is the best way that we can get that, from Australia and the United States.”

Training scenarios incorporated the US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey.

Lt-Col Brian Grayson, US Marine Rotation Force – Darwin ground combat element commander, said the aircraft was put to good use on Carabaroo.

“The capability for them to land just about anywhere is a capability that allows you to get as close as possible to the objective, whether you go far away or whether you go close,” Lt-Col Grayson said.

“It also has speed that allows you to move there really quickly or to extract pretty quickly.”

Lt-Col Grayson said he enjoyed working with the Australians on Carabaroo due to their work ethic and posi-tive attitude.

“Great people to work with, phenomenal field skills and just the ‘mateship’ – the idea that you welcome us with open arms,” he said.

“We’ve taken away a lot of stuff so far that we are going to take back to the United States when we leave.”

Exercise Carabaroo involved more than 360 mem-bers from the US Marine Corps, Armed Forces of the Philippines and 8/9RAR.

and we were not, so the learning curve was a bit differ-ent,” Capt Cracchiolo said.

The Regimental Commander of the JGSDF con-tingent, Col Suguru Iwahara, said the Shoalwater Bay Training Area provided opportunities for training not available in Japan.

“Although we are all conducting the same exercise, we have different ways of achieving the same things. I feel we have been able to learn good things from both the US and Australia,” Col Iwahara said.

Comd 7 Bde Brig Andrew Hocking said the connec-tions formed at the soldier-to-soldier level made the exer-cise invaluable.

“Our aim was really to learn from each other, to share cultural experiences and build relationships at all levels,” Brig Hocking said.

“There’s always the language barrier but we work through that, that’s not a major challenge.

“I guess the big challenge was we all have different equipment, we all have different procedures and that is one of the reasons we were out there, to learn how to adapt each other’s procedures so we can work effectively together.

“One of the rich things about this exercise was indi-vidual soldiers creating relationships, because at the end of the day, warfare is a human pursuit, so to have individuals who know each other and trust each other is a great advantage to our capabilities and to the security of the region.”

Pacific allies come together

6RAR soldiers from 6RAR board an M113AS4 armoured personnel carrier.

Riflemen from 6RAR conduct a simulated assault with US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey support on the urban operations training facility at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area. Photos: Cpl Tristan Kennedy

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IF YOU’RE confused about how AHQ’s recent directive regarding the wearing of AMCU com-bat ensemble should be applied, you’re not alone.

Taken on its own, the directive states that if you are not wearing body armour, you need to change into AMCU field dress.

However, RSM – Ceremonial WO1 Michael Bates said common sense should be applied.

“If your unit is going to be at the range during the day and you will be wearing body armour, you don’t have to change back into field uniform if you go to the mess for lunch,” WO1 Bates said.

“Likewise, if you’re in the field and you take your SCE off to complete a task, there is no requirement to get changed.

“However, if you’ve finished the activity during which you were wearing body armour, you should be changing back into the appropri-ate uniform.”

The directive came about after the Townsville flood assist and the recent Australian International Airshow, according to AHQ SO2 Clothing Sandy McInerney.

“During the floods and air show all you saw were soldiers in their combat shirts out in the heat and being exposed to more UV than they needed to be,” Ms McInerney said.

“The protection of the uniforms is depend-ent on the closeness of the knit. The closer a garment is weaved – like the field coat – the more UV protection it provides.”

Although one is commonly worn as a “barracks” uni-form, AMCU comes in two variants – field and combat. Each has a fire-retardant variant available, issued as required. Further clarification on this directive can be sought by emailing army.ceremonial@defence.gov.au

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Lt Jack Cailes, second from right, and Bdr Christopher Broderick, right, of 4 Regt, RAA, wear the AMCU combat ensemble during the Townsville floods. Photo: Pte Brodie Cross

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In mid-May, The Cove was modern-ised and relaunched with the updated version, which The Cove Director Lt-Col Greg Colton said now boasted improved accessibility, an enhanced search facility and the ability to submit articles from the homepage.

“The Cove is the professional devel-opment network for the Australian pro-fession of arms,” Lt-Col Colton said.

“The current version has succeeded in establishing a widely successful online learning hub for our members, regardless of rank or corps.”

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encouraging a contest of ideas based on a member’s professional interests and experience,” Lt-Col Colton said.

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BEING a parent, partner or child of an ADF member presents many opportuni-ties and challenges.

This June, ADF families have the opportunity to provide Defence with feedback about their experiences and views on military life through the ADF Families Survey.

CDF Gen Angus Campbell said Defence recognised the significant con-tribution made by ADF families.

“Defence values the essential role families play in supporting our serving members and the contribution they make to the ADF,” Gen Campbell said.

“The ADF Families Survey is an opportunity to have your say and share your views on the services and support available to you and your family.

“To ensure we make the right com-mitments and deliver on those commit-ments, Defence wants to understand the needs of ADF families and their expe-riences with the current programs and services on offer.”

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and their families to take advantage of this opportunity to have their say,” Gen Campbell said.

“By letting us know what is impor-tant to you and your family, we can focus services and support in the right areas.”

The ADF Families Survey will close June 21 and can be accessed at defence.gov.au/dco or dfa.org.au. The results are expected to be available in late 2019

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Flt-Lt Dion Isaacson

A FEMALE cadet has been named the best in her course during a graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy (ANAOA).

1Lt Shekila’s final scores were higher than the rest of her class-mates in both field and classroom activities.

In a packed auditorium, Shekila received the Duntroon Sword from Comd Task Group Afghanistan Brig Tim O’Brien, at the gradua-tion ceremony in April.

Speaking at the graduation cer-emony, the Afghan leadership said they were proud to work with other nations to fight terrorism.

Course mentor WO1 Peter Morritt said it was exhilarating to see how far the cadets had come with their leadership and combat skills.

“This course faced some dif-ficult challenges with the winter season delivering heavy snow and minus 15 degree temperatures. Even with the weather heavily impacting on the field training time, morale was high among the staff and cadets,” WO1 Morritt said.

“It was the first time I had been involved with training soldiers in the snow.

“The cadets study lessons in the classroom, then transfer that gained knowledge into the field, where they practise defensive and offen-

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sive operations in a mock village and open terrain.”

The course graduated 330 male and 28 female cadets. More than 4200 students have trained at ANAOA since its formation in 2013.

“There is still some room for growth in the integration of female cadets,” WO1 Morritt said.

“However, ANAOA is working hard and has displayed huge steps in moving forward.”

Top cadet from the graduation class of ANAOA 1Lt Shekila addresses fellow officers at the graduation ceremony.

Comd Task Group Afghanistan Brig Tim O’Brien presents 1Lt Shekila with the Duntroon Sword.Photos: Cpl Chris Beerens

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Army has approved the transfer of two tank turret trainers, Centurion (above) and Scorpion (right), from the Army History Unit, Bandiana, to the National Vietnam Veterans’ Museum – Phillip Island. The assets have been moved from the Repository at South Bandiana to the Army Tank Museum, Puckapunyal. Both trainers were refurbished and rendered innocuous by the staff from Joint Logistic Unit – Victoria. The Centurion trainer will be a valued addition to their collection, as a number of their members were trained on it before deployment to South Vietnam.

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BUSHMASTERS in the Middle East are rolling with upgraded second-gener-ation protected weapon stations (PWS) and better communications.

Along with the weapon station, Raven series radios were replaced with Harris radios to allow soldiers to com-municate over long distances and use text-based messaging – important when voice channels are congested.

It was the culmination of three years’ work, according to Capt Jesse Voyer, who was in charge of the upgrade in the Middle East.

“The new PWS tracking feature, combined with the improvements to the camera functions, allows the crew com-mander to lock on, zoom in and auto-matically follow their target, all while remaining protected inside the vehicle,” Capt Voyer said.

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Pte Daniel White, deployed with Force Protection Element 10 at Camp Qargha, agreed the improvements meant safer weapons drills and less exposure.

“If we need to reload, or get hands on the weapon, we can tilt it to the rear so it is ready for us to rectify the issue,” Pte White said.

“It means we can get the job done quickly and return to the inside of the vehicle and continue to operate that weapon remotely.”

He and his section found the PWS more user friendly; the layout of the controls has improved and is more intuitive.

“If you’ve played Xbox before, over time you remember where and how the controls work quite quickly,” Pte White said.

“It is similar with the PWS; you remember where the buttons are and it becomes just like it would be if your hands were on the weapon itself.”

The rollout of the second generation PWS to the remaining fleet will con-tinue into the rest of the year.

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The Bushmaster PMV has been fitted with the second generation of the Protected Weapon Station.

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A PAIR of Abrams hulls face each other as orange-shirted workers swing spanners in the white inte-

riors exposed by the tanks’ missing turrets.

Long tracks sit unspooled on the workshop floor; another worker beside a track pulls a huge torque wrench.

Beyond the tracks, a line of tank turrets are perched on stands above the workshop floor, surrounded by scaffolding beneath a huge yellow gantry crane.

A large part of JLU-Vic’s heavy vehicle maintenance facility is now dedicated to the Abrams tank refresh program, but OPSO JLU-Vic Chris Beattie remembers when the huge green building sliced and stretched the M113A1 APCs to make the M113AS4s.

“We had vehicle hulls every-where; you’d walk into 10 Shop and you’d see the aluminium dust, it was very industrial work,” he said.

“Years ago it was Four and Six Shop, but time went by, they built a roof over it, so four and six make 10.”

Army’s connection to the East Bandiana site stretches back to 1942, when a huge maintenance and logistics hub was built on the NSW-Victorian border.

Mr Beattie said the site was chosen partly to balance a railway gauge dispute between the states,

the mild weather and a stable, local workforce.

Wartime planners also liked keeping Army’s logistics hub well beyond range of enemy ships’ guns.

Today the heavy vehicle facil-ity features a series of long work bays, smaller component workshops and spray-painting booths, one big enough for a tank.

An Abrams test track lets work-ers make sure the reassembled vehi-cles are running properly.

Ten Shop can service and repair anything from a tank to a G-Wagon

and has a history of maintaining artillery pieces.

“The old Hamel guns were built in the Bendigo ordnance factory in the late ’80s and after delivery, JLU-Vic handled deep-level maintenance and rebuilds,” Mr Beattie said.

“Because Australia owns the IP, if we couldn’t source a component, we had the potential to manufacture them here.”

The site unexpectedly became home to repairs on Army’s new artillery.

“With the M777, we were never

Refresh on Abrams tanks are rolling out of a Bandiana workshop with a few new upgrades, Sgt Max Bree writes.

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An M1 Abrams tank is parked in a spray painting booth at Joint Logistics Unit – Victoria’s heavy vehicle maintenance facility in Bandiana. Photos: Sgt Max Bree

Workers at JLU-Vic’s heavy vehicle maintenance facility.

Cfn Henry King, left, and American transmission mechanic Billy Hay monitor an engine and gearbox from a ground hop support station during a transmission repair course.

Cfn Henry King, left, and Cpl Justin McGavin work on an engine during a transmission repair course.

designated to do any more than the second line, medium-grade repair in sup-port of ALTC,” Mr Beattie said.

“After introduction into service, a gun sustained vehicle damage; we thought we could fix it.

“A crew flew out from the US and allowed us to conduct the repairs under their guidance, a bit like train-the-trainer. Since that time, 10 Shop has repaired a number of M777s.”

Workers at 10 Shop also repaired ASLAVs on return from the Middle East and passed AQIS searching for con-taminants.

“There were approximately 1200 man hours spent on each vehicle to reme-diate; you didn’t get a rebuild but you got a vehicle that was fully functional and returned back to its Australian configu-ration,” Mr Beattie said.

“There would have been anywhere up to 15 ASLAVs on that line.”

Leopard tank rebuilds were carried out on the site, a tradition they’ve con-tinued with the Abrams tank refresh – 10 Shop’s huge gantry cranes are capable of removing the 25-plus-ton turrets.

“It’s not an everyday unit main-tenance activity to lift a turret off an Abrams. We had to do inspections on the turret race rings and hydraulic hoses, so we had to lift them off,” Mr Beattie said.

“Tank refresh is a fancy name for a series of engineering changes to get the Australian Abrams tank baseline configu-ration closer to the US Marine specifica-

tion. One of the major things they do is the upgrade to a heavy A2 suspension to enable fitment of the Tank Urban Survivability Kit.”

Despite tanks moving through refresh and other vehicles at different stages of maintenance, the site isn’t running at full capacity due to older vehicle fleets being retired.

“Part of our contract process is we should be able to expand and contract according to the work load,” Mr Beattie

said. “Back in the

day we were doing shifts.”

Mr Beattie said 10 Shop was pre-pared to take on additional work.

“We have to be competitive against external contractors,” he said.

“The beauty about us is all our systems are inter-nal to Army.

“We operate MILIS, whereas an external

contractor might only operate MILIS for supply inputs and not maintenance.

“There’s experience in 10 Shop that’s different from the other JLUs; these guys have that deeper knowledge because they’ve done rebuilds.

“Heavy-grade repairs can be com-pleted at any JLU in the network but only JLU-Vic can do it at an industrial level. And if needed, JLU-Vic can increase capacity to meet our mobilisation requirements.

“It is a fantastic facility that will con-tinue to highlight the need for in-house capability for many years to come. ”

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TO SEE a bunch of Abrams tanks without turrets, you could travel to Anniston Army Depot in the US or just take a walk along East Bandiana’s Tank Refresh line.

It’s here these machines are pulled apart, engines inspected and suspen-sion upgraded to allow installation of the Tank Urban Survival Kit.

Tank refresh project officer Harry Lawrence said the vehicle now had improved systems.

“We’ve either serviced it with new oil, new sealant, new hoses, or done component changes and/or minor upgrades,” he said.

While the tanks are in the work-shop receiving their annual and bien-nial service, workers also address outstanding and deeper-level repairs.

A new thermal window for gun-ner’s primary sight is installed, along with a new display window for the diagnostic computer. Each refresh takes nine months or 2380 work hours, depending on the remediation tasks and parts availabile.

Mr Lawrence said tankies getting into a refreshed Abrams would notice subtle changes.

“They’ll look past the new paint job then they’ll notice some smaller items that seem inconsequential to others,” he said.

“There are new hydraulic hoses, new seals between the side skirt, they may not notice straightaway, but the seats have been serviced and oper-ate correctly, new warning decals are done, too.

“It’s still going to have the same

track

‘Tank refresh is a sexy name for a series of engineering changes to get the Australian

Abrams tank baseline configuration closer to the US Marine

specification.– Chris Beattie, OPSO JLU-Vic

quality of interior, as it’s not a full rebuild.”

The first of Army’s 59 tanks entered refresh in 2014 and the first three completed arrived at 1 Armd Regt the next year. The School of Armour and 2 Cav Regt received their first refreshed tanks in 2015.

The 43rd tank is now nearing completion. The 59th tank will enter the refresh line in September and is due for completion next year.

Americans run a fleet of more than 8000 tanks, but Mr Lawrence said their usage varied.

“Tanks in their units don’t go with them to their main training areas. If they went to Shoalwater Bay they would have 20 tanks waiting for them and a different 20 tanks in Cultana,” he said.

“Their usage rate is lower. We do tend to break things the Americans

don’t break because of our usage rates.”

Once tanks are reassembled, they are driven on a track behind the workshop.

It has to do 41.5mph +/- 2mph without its turret to check the new suspension. Then the turret is refitted and driven, rechecking the speed and suspension, along with the electronics and hull integrating.

“The point of the tank is to be able to shoot a moving target, on the move, at distance. We have to make sure all the systems align to enable the crew to do that job,” Mr Lawrence said. “I think our workers are proud they’re giving the Army this capabil-ity. When you see the smiles on their faces, it’s pretty cool going around in a tank on the test track.”

At the end of their refresh, a tank is reset to “zero” maintenance hours.

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Defence public servant Norm Dodgson, left, and Broadspectrum project officer Harry Lawrence discuss changes to the turret.

12 June 13, 2019 defence.gov.au/news/armynews 13Indo-Pacific Endeavour

THE Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE19) joint task force returned to Australia in May after nearly three months away visiting seven countries and travelling 12,500

nautical miles in South- and South-East Asia.Comd Joint Task Force 661 Air-Cdre Rich-

ard Owen said the countries they had visited and the people-to-people engagement had been first class.

“I have an immediate success measure of how many people were smiling,” Air-Cdre Owen said.

“Well, from what I’ve seen, there have been lots of smiles.”

IPE19 departed Fremantle on March 11 and travelled with up to 1200 personnel, four ships, eight helicopters, a P-8A Poseidon aircraft and a Collins-class submarine.

“Indo-Pacific Endeavour is one of the most important annual activities of the ADF,” Air-Cdre Owen said.

“It is a major contribution to regional security and stability and deepens Australia’s engagement and partnerships with regional security forces.”

The deployment included disaster assistance planning, community outreach, defence industry exhibitions and receptions for regional VIPs and communities on board HMAS Canberra as the task group visited Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia.

2RAR, 3RAR, Army Band, RAAF personnel and APS employees joined Navy to form a joint task force.

Air-Cdre Owen reiterated this is how the ADF now operates.

“The joint nature of this is a message from Australia to the region that this is how we will conduct ourselves in the future,” he said.

“The jobs we do in the military are too big for one service to do alone and IPE19 is a manifesta-tion of that.”

Air-Cdre Owen said the third iteration of the engagement was another way Australia helped to ensure the region was secure and prosperous.

“I think each IPE improves on the last as we get used to each other, build closer relationships and focus more on the finer details of what we can achieve together,” Air-Cdre Owen said.

‘Having the opportunity to work with and experience different cultures in

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“That could be next year, it could be seven years down the track. If we build that trust and those capability knowledge bases, we will know who to call.”

Air-Cdre Owen said each country had its high-lights. “The opportunity to commemorate Anzac Day in Malaysia, experiencing the wonderful cultural shows on arrival into each new port and witnessing the joint task force members make lasting memories with people from all over the Indo-Pacific Region – all of these have made this

deployment a fantastic time for many of the mem-bers involved,” Air-Cdre Owen said. “We’ve been able to engage all sorts of different young com-munities using music, using song, using dance, so having Army Band and projecting a more human perspective on what we do was important.

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THE Australian Army Drone Racing Team took centre-stage at the Science Alive Expo dem-onstrating the fun and excite-

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Despite the winter chill, the heat was on in the “Drone Zone” during the three-day expo starting with a student “STEM Day-Out” and then two days open to the public.

Captain of the Army Drone Racing Team, Cpl Zakariah Martin-Taylor, said the expo was a fantastic opportunity to talk to young people about the fun of drone racing and give budding racers a turn on the mini whoop drones in the cage.

“It is really inspiring to see people, big and small, show such an interest in drone racing,” Cpl Martin-Taylor said.

“They ask a lot of questions and are really keen to try out their skills with a mini drone.”

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THE Battle of Binh Ba stands out as one of Army’s great-est victories in Vietnam, where diggers untrained in

urban warfare fought street-to-street and house-to-house for much of the battle.

Operation Hammer, as it became known, took place from June 6-8, 1969, starting when a Centurion tank and an armoured recovery vehicle were fired on while moving through Binh Ba to assist 6RAR.

An RPG-7 penetrated the Centurion’s turret, damaging the tank and seriously wounding a crewman, but both vehicles moved to safety.

Back at Nui Dat, that day’s ready reaction company, an under-strength D Coy, 5RAR, was activat-ed and set off in B Sqn, 3 Cav Regt APCs commanded by Capt Ray De Vere.

A composite troop of four Centurions from B Sqn, 1 Armd Regt, commanded by 2Lt Brian Sullivan, a national serviceman, went with them.

The group stopped opposite the village, just out of RPG range, and the three officers decided on an armoured assault, as troops on foot would be susceptible to enemy fire.

Capt De Vere took command of this phase and with one tank and two APCs per platoon, D Coy

advanced into the village from the east.

A Centurion was hit by two RPG-7 rounds, wounding three of the crew and disabling the turret’s traverse.

Command realised they were up against a sizeable NVA unit, not the two VC platoons they initially believed.

It was later learnt the enemy force comprised 1 Bn, 33 NVA Regt, and while many fought to the death, others discarded their uni-forms and mingled with civilians in the village.

B Coy, 5RAR, was called out from Nui Dat and CO 5RAR Lt-Col Colin Khan took command of the unfolding battle.

When B Coy arrived they blocked the village’s entry and exit points.

A light fire team of two 9 Sqn RAAF Bushrangers flew in, guided by Capt De Vere, to attack positions on Binh Ba’s southern side with rockets and miniguns.

A fresh troop of tanks arrived from the north where they’d been supporting 6RAR on Operation Lavarack.

At 2pm, D Coy swept back through Binh Ba, this time dis-mounted.

This clearance was still unfin-ished at nightfall so the Australians

harboured up for the night at the edge of the village.

The next morning, B Coy cut off a communist company attempting to enter the town, and after block-ing the exit and entry routes, again supported by armour, forced them to withdraw.

At 9.50am, D Coy, reinforced with a B Coy platoon, dismounted and, supported by tanks and APCs, began a further sweep through Binh Ba from west to east, meeting peri-odic resistance from a number of small groups still holed up in the village.

By late afternoon, D Coy com-pleted its sweep to the eastern side of Binh Ba, and on the morning of June 8, after occupying a night defensive position, made a final sweep of the houses on the eastern side of Binh Ba.

Australian casualties were one KIA, Pte Wayne Teeling, a nation-al serviceman, and 11 WIA, while communist casualties were more than 107 killed.

The battle was a classic example of combined-arms operations using armour, artillery, infantry and avia-tion support.

5RAR, 3 Cav Regt and 1 Armd Regt were later awarded the battle honour “Binh Ba”, one of only five presented to Australian units during the war.

Fifty years on, the Battle of Binh Ba stands as one of Australia’s greatest victories in Vietnam, writes Sgt Dave Morley.

THE Battle of Binh Ba had such an effect on a young national serviceman that he went back to visit the village 47 years later and wrote a book about the battle.

Tpr David Hay was a radio operator in the lead Centurion, call sign 22B, of the southernmost pair of tanks in the first pass assault of Binh Ba.

His B Sqn, 1 Armd Regt, tank left Nui Dat 45 minutes after the ready reaction force main body, as a result of repairs to its radios and auxiliary generator being undertaken in the squadron workshops.

Tpr Hay said it only took a few min-utes after the initial assault started on Binh Ba for the four-abreast formation of the leading tank troop to be disrupted.

“The troop leader, 2Lt Brian Sullivan, realised his troop would need to adopt a two-up formation to be able to proceed into the village,” he said.

“This they did with c/s 22B and 21 on the left, or southern flank, and c/s 21C and 22 on the right.

“All tanks were, by this time, receiv-ing fire from enemy RPG teams using the cover of houses to great effect in their counter assault on the armoured frontline.”

Tpr Hay said c/s 21C was struck by two RPG-7 projectiles, both fired from the southern side of the street.

“This was disastrous for both crew and vehicle – the turret crew were all wounded by one RPG which penetrated the turret armour,” he said.

“Luckily the driver was able to take the tank forward out of the village to an open area to the west where the extent of the injuries could be assessed. Even then the crew continued to engage NVA troops they could see withdrawing through the nearby rubber plantation.”

With the approval of OC B Sqn, 1 Armd Regt, c/s 21C was abandoned where it stood and the crew taken around the north of Binh Ba back to Route 2, where a dust-off landing zone could be established.

Within the confines of the village, c/s 22B and 21 were facing the very real danger of losing the initiative of the early action.

Tpr Hay said both Centurions had been flushing groups of NVA from houses and gardens and inflicting heavy casualties, but were coming under increasing pres-sure from RPG fire.

“The first RPG-7 to strike 22B missed the turret, but temporarily knocked out our crew commander Cpl Barry Bennier,” he said.

Cpl Bennier recovered quickly but both call signs were dangerously low on ammunition opening up the risk of them being overrun in a counter attack by a determined enemy.

Tpr Hay said the coup de grâce came when a second RPG-7 struck and pene-trated 22B’s turret, leaving him temporar-ily blinded by shrapnel.

“The tank was immediately silenced – the electrical connections to internal tur-ret guns were severed, the turret crew all wounded by shrapnel and, apart from the crew commander’s .30 calibre machine gun, the tank was undefended,” he said.

“If ever an element of luck was need-ed, this was the time, but luck did come and it came from above.

“Two Iroquois Bushranger gunships from 9 Sqn RAAF, with not a second to spare, brought their miniguns to bear and eliminated the threat.

“The plight of c/s 21 and 22B would have been catastrophic, had it not been for the strike by the RAAF Bushranger helicopter light support team immediately after the Centurion was disabled.”

Dr Hay returned to Australia, later completing a PhD in Chemistry which led to a 30-year career in science rising to Principal Research Scientist with the CSIRO.

His book, The Battle of Binh Ba – One take on a very muddied history, was pub-lished in 2016.

Soldier’s take on muddied history

Jungle warfare

Tpr David Hay.

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A 5RAR digger’s memory of Binh Ba was that it was “just one hell of a bunfight”.

National serviceman T/Cpl Peter Jones was a stretcher bearer with CHQ, D Coy, and said it was so full-on, he didn’t have time to think.

“After the RAEME and road clearing blokes were fired on earlier at Binh Ba, being on ready reaction we were given notice to move, the APCs flew up Nui Dat Hill and picked us up and away we went to Binh Ba,” he said.

“We were ready-reaction com-pany for that day and there was just the OC B Coy Maj Murray Blake, 11 Pl Comd 2Lt John Russell and about 65 blokes – I don’t know where everyone else was.

“When we left Nui Dat we certainly knew we were going to be in a fight, but we had no idea of

enemy numbers, we weren’t told numbers or anything like that – I don’t think anyone really knew.

“At Binh Ba we were met by four Centurions and we lined up with them in the APCs on the long side of the oblong, which was the shape of the village.”

Mr Jones said they held back about 500m from the village and the NVA started firing RPGs.

“We could see the flash, but we were out of range so the rockets exploded to our front,” he said.

“We had gunships overhead and .30 and .50 cals blatting away, and when we moved into the vil-lage itself, that was just a bunfight.

“It was full-on, there were tanks being hit and put out of action.

“Fortunately at that stage, there wasn’t anyone severely wounded, as I would have to get out and

look after them.”Mr Jones said

after pulling out of that situation they moved down to the shorter side of the oblong and lined up again.

“On the front boundary line I was closer to the tank where the OC Maj Blake was, and then 12 Pl was near me

and they started to move forward,” he said.

“Then another firefight started and Pte Wayne Teeling, a national serviceman, was hit so the

RAAMC guy Cpl Gary Young and I, under covering fire and being fired at, recovered him, but he was dead when we got him back 30m behind a carrier.

“We put him into the APC and continued our move through, which was a similar move as before, except this time we were on foot with APCs in support.”

Mr Jones said they were doing house-to-house fighting, in which they hadn’t been trained.

“The houses were solid, but had bunkers underneath, so we’d accommodate that with a grenade down into the bunker,” he said.

“I had two artillery FOs from 105 Bty with me, Sgt Jeff Rendalls and a national service-man, Gnr Tony Moore, and in this house we found a wounded NVA.

“Then we found another wounded NVA, with yet another one out the front who had two broken femurs and was moan-

‘One hell of a bunfight’

Sgt Dave Morley shares a stretcherbearer’s account of the Battle of Binh Ba.

‘When we left Nui Dat we certainly

knew we were going to be in a fight, but we had no idea of enemy numbers.

– Peter Jones, former national serviceman

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T/Cpl Peter Jones.

Centurion tanks from 1 Armd Regt and armoured personnel carriers from B Sqn, 3 Cav Regt, move along the main road of Binh Ba. Photos: AWM

A NATIONAL Service digger, who fought as an APC driver with 3 Cav Regt, only finished up in RAAC because he used the alphabet to make his corps choices.

Then-LCpl Chris Heaney said he wasn’t all that enthused about being called up, so when given his options, selected the first three corps in alpha-betical order.

“As it turned out, armour being first was the best ‘non-selection’ I made,” he said.

“The next would have been artillery, which might not have been that bad, but I knew I didn’t want infantry – I wasn’t too keen on digging holes to sleep in and have no protection from the elements when in the field.”

Mr Heaney said on the morning of the battle, his troop was the ready-reaction troop, so they were in Nui Dat doing general duties.

“There were stories circulating about trouble in Binh Ba and that a tank had been fired on as it passed through the village – this was later found to be the recovery vehicle,” he said.

When Mr Heaney’s APC, callsign 30B, pulled up on the eastern side of the road from the village, it was reasonably quiet. They could hear some distur-bance, but had been told not to go into the village unless invited by the district commander/chief, or were fired on.

WHEN Pte Ray Ward arrived in Nui Dat a few weeks before Christmas 1968 and was told he’d be spending three months in Saigon as an embassy guard, he thought all his Christmases had come at once.

When he returned to Nui Dat, he marched straight into D Coy, 5RAR, as a rifleman.

“My platoon commander, 2Lt John Russell, was a Scheyville graduate and he and I had spent our first two weeks at Puckapunyal in the same hut, before he was selected for Scheyville,” Mr Ward said.

“He’d only marched in a few days before me because the original platoon commander had been sent home.

“When he recognised me, he told me I was going to be his platoon sig, so I had just a week at CHQ to learn how to operate a radio.”

Mr Ward said they were the ready-reaction company for that day on the first day of the battle.

“We didn’t get any briefing before we left for Binh Ba in the APCs and we only had 65 men in our company that day because others were off doing subject courses for corporal at BHQ,” he said.

When D Coy arrived on loca-tion they stopped outside the village and remained in B Sqn, 3 Cav Regt’s APCs, waiting for permission from the Vietnamese district governor to enter.

“There was speculation he wouldn’t let us in, because if we did any damage, he might be held account-able by the South Vietnamese govern-ment,” Mr Ward said.

“We stayed mounted in the carri-ers until we got on to the road directly opposite the eastern side of the village, facing the first row of houses that faced the road.

“Then we debussed and deployed to that first line of houses, and that’s when it turned into chaos.”

Mr Ward was following 2Lt Russell when he threw a grenade into the first house.

“When it exploded we heard all this screaming and yelling and wailing coming from a bunker under the floor and then this old man came out with his family,” Mr Ward said.

“I relayed that back to the OC, Maj Murray Blake, and he told us to pull back to enable the villagers to be evacuated, so we mounted the APCs again and went around the village to

ing and groaning. Maj Blake told us to stay with these NVA and he would come back to get us after the sweep was completed.

“The next thing we hear is Vietnamese voices, so I told Gnr Moore to guard the two wounded NVAs while Sgt Rendalls and I took up firing positions towards where we heard the voices.”

Mr Jones said they saw a bloke in a pith helmet and blue shirt so they opened up and dropped him.

“As I was coming back one of the wounded NVAs tried to attack me, so in attacking me, Sgt Rendalls couldn’t get a shot at him, he knocked my rifle aside and I had to deal with that with my bayonet,” he said.

“On that particular little sortie, Maj Blake must have realised the three of us were still in this house, so he sent a couple of APCs back pretty quickly and we gave him a present, his one POW.

“Apart from the two NVAs, I only treated two other wounded, one being 11 Pl Comd 2Lt Russell, who had a slight leg wound, and Bluey Morrison who had an eye injury.”

the south side and then the west side.“We got the order to advance and

when we started taking fire, that’s when the Centurions came into their own.

“We moved through the laneways and streets with a tank and if we took fire, we’d use the tank to put a round

through the house – geez, they make a mess.”

2Lt Russell was wounded by gre-nade shrapnel during the fighting.

“I was having a break while he went off to recce something and when he came back he’d been wounded in the leg,” he said.

“He wanted to stay on but the OC told him to get into a carrier and go back to Nui Dat.

“We saw 2Lt Russell a few days later at Vung Tau and luckily he recov-ered from his wounds and was able to come back.

“When 2Lt Russell left, the CSM WO2 Smudger Smith came and took over our platoon – our platoon ser-geant was away somewhere, he wasn’t at the battle.”

Mr Ward said they got back to where they’d originally started, on the eastern side of the village and as it was getting close to last light, they har-boured up in the rubber that night.

“We’d stopped fighting for the day, but we didn’t know if we’d got every-body,” he said.

“We didn’t know what our results were and it wasn’t until the next morn-ing when we got up and moved out.”

From embassy guard to thick of the action

“After we’d been on station for a few minutes, two VC came to the edge of the village behind a house and fired an RPG at us; it missed and they quickly disappeared behind the houses,” he said.

“A few minutes later they appeared again two houses further along and fired another RPG; it missed and they disappeared again.

“Then, when they reappeared two more houses along, the tank next to us fired and knocked them out – great anticipation.

It was after this we deployed in to the village.”

The infantry debussed, but Mr Heaney said they got in as the fighting was too intense between the narrow rows of houses.

“A little while later, and we hadn’t proceeded too far in to the village, 3Tp Comd Capt Ray De Vere asked 2Lt Ballance to deploy to the south side of the village to establish a safe zone for a dust-off, as at that stage there had been some casualties,” he said.

“Snow was really pissed-off because he hadn’t really got into the battle – we sat on the edge of the village securing the dust-off pad for a while.

“We re-joined the action after the first sweep through the village and took up a position to drive back between a line of houses.

“At that stage I think is when our infantry got out – but that part is hazy.”

Mr Heaney said they completed the first sweep through Binh Ba, re-assembled, then started a second sweep through from the opposite direction.

“We’d just started the sweep when we came across a few back packs that had been dumped on the road by the NVA/VC,” he said.

“Snow asked me to jump down and grab them; I was a little reluctant, but as there hadn’t been any firing for a while, I climbed out of the driver’s seat and

jumped down on the road. I wasn’t con-cerned about booby traps, there hadn’t been time, but as I threw the packs up on top of the APC, the machine gunner in the tank next to me started firing.

“I spun around in time to see one of the NVA lining me up from behind a log on the side of the road – fortunately the machine gunner took him out, but I told Snow he could get his own back-packs in future.”

Mr Heaney said he was surprised at the intensity of the battle.

“We were initially told it was a small element in the village – it later turned out it was a lot more than that and they were regular NVA, not just VC,” he said.

Mr Heaney’s 3 Tp returned to base just on last light.

“As we were driving back to Nui Dat around the ring road to the entry gate, the NVA mortars were tracking us trying to hit us, but our artillery had pin-pointed their position and started a counter-barrage, so we made it back without being hit,” Mr Heaney said.

“The night after Binh Ba there was more action in a village next to Nui Dat, I recall being told some of the NVA/VC from Binh Ba had infiltrated the village.

“We were scrambled to that village and spent most of the night there, but I don’t recall any fighting.”

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Pte Ray Ward.

LCpl Chris Heaney.

A 5RAR soldier during a search-and-clear operation on the first day of the Battle of Binh Ba.

Sgt Max Bree

NSW dominated the ADF Hockey Combined Championships winning both men’s and women’s competitions from May 4-10.

The tightly contested matches brought 100 competitors together in four women’s and four men’s state-based teams.

Blues women’s captain PO Talei Stoll was happy with the result despite struggling with a limited player roster.

“The championships ran smoothly as always, unfortunately, due to the high exercise tempo, we didn’t have the numbers previous years have seen,” she said.

“This saw the women having to play nine-a-side and a majority of players playing two games a day.”

NSW men’s captain, Navy WO William McConnell said his side didn’t have an easy run.

“There were tight tussles in the games with us being pushed by all states,” he said.

“We had plenty of new players into the association this year which saw the tougher competition.”

In the men’s final, NT ran on hard and was leading at half-time.

A refocus by NSW did the trick with an equaliser coming into the third quarter.

Patient and sustained pressure from NSW allowed them control the last quarter and a goal with two seconds left sealed the win 2-1.

Army’s Cpl Iain McClung praised the way his fellow NSW players per-formed over the week.

“The team improved and adapted to player changes and losses, both in our own team and opposition,” he said.

“The final was the toughest game

Blues double down

of the tournament. It was an amazing feeling to seal the win against such a strong opposition in a tight game.”

The women’s final was a test of endurance after a long week of nine-a-side hockey.

NSW sealed the victory after OCdt Hannah Burrell converted a penalty

corner with her side going on to win 1-0.

“The team performed exceptionally well, considering we had a mixture of new and experienced players,” PO Stoll said.

“I’m proud of what we achieved as a team and if it wasn’t for their dedica-

tion, winning wouldn’t have been an option.”

It was PO Stoll’s first time winning a championship since starting her ADF hockey career in 2004.

“I’m completely humbled; the effort the girls put in throughout the championships in order to achieve this

victory is commendable,” she said. “Hockey is my passion and leading these girls to victory has been my absolute pleasure.”

ADF National men’s and wom-en’s squads will compete in the Australian Country Championships in Shepparton, in August.

Sibling rivalry

ADF HOCKEY teams took a big stick to their trans-Tasman rivals, with men’s and women’s sides defeating the New Zealand Defence Force to win the Anzac series in Auckland from April 18-26.

Competing over a three-Test series, both squads won the series 2-1 against the Kiwis.

The ADF Men and Women played their final games as cur-tain raisers before the Australian Women’s Hockeyroos and Men’s Kookaburras taking on the New Zealand Blacksticks.

Playing a curtain raiser on Anzac Day was a highlight for Army’s Sgt Shayne Buenaobra.

“Being able to march on with the Hockeyroos team was such an honour and the highlight of our tour,” Sgt Buenaobra said.

“Showing the true Anzac spirit with hard fought games showing that courage, mateship and sacrifice both on and of the pitch between teams.”

Going into the Anzac Day curtain raiser with the series tied at one apiece, men’s ADF coach Air-Cdre Leon Phillips, made

changes to the line-up that saw them take out the series.

“We were surprised in the first game by how structured our New Zealand counterparts were and how effectively they coun-ter-attacked,” Air-Cdre Phillips said.

“We nullified that in the second two games with a more patient, controlled back line and by spot marking their key play maker.

“Game three, our players were near faultless – one of the best performances I’ve seen

from them.” With the series wrapped up the for the women, coach PO Dan Knapp praised his side.

“The debutantes and experi-enced heads gelled nicely and our structure was effective,” PO Knapp said.

“The facilities, crowd and honour surrounding the Anzac Test made it a memorable expe-rience and highlight of my coaching career.”

Match results: ADF Women 1-0, 4-0, 1-2; ADF Men 1-3, 2-1, 4-0

Cpl Ashley Connelly sends the Australians into attack against their Kiwi rivals.Photo: Planet Hockey Magazine

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The NSW ADF Combined Services women’s team forms an arch for the men’s team, as they run on to the field during the ADF Combined Services Hockey Tournament. Photo: AB Leo Baumgartner

Sgt Max Bree

DEFENCE teams went down fighting at the Australian Country Water Polo Championships on the Gold Coast from May 15-18, as they each faced off against seven state and territory-based sides.

The women finished the comp eighth, not helped by their lack of a ded-icated goalie, while the men fought hard to finish sixth.

Men’s player Cpl Max Martin said their modest finish exceeded expecta-tions.

“We play a lot of strong teams, they’re pretty good so we often finish last. Our goal this year was to finish sev-enth,” he said.

“We made it to the back-end play-off for fifth and sixth. We didn’t win but we weren’t expected to even be in that game, so all the boys were ecstatic.”

Their toughest competition came from an all-star NSW side.

“All their players were fit and ready to go, they were the favourites from game one, then they went on to win the grand final by six points,” Cpl Martin said.

“When we played them, we knew we weren’t going to win, but that took the pressure off us and we could concen-trate on our defence to stop them scoring goals.”

Cpl Martin credited their star goalie AC Bailey Sheather with keeping the score lines respectable.

“If we didn’t have him, I imagine there would have been a lot more goals scored against us,” Cpl Martin said.

AC Sheather, a former Australian junior representative had played in national-level water polo before joining the RAAF.

“It was good to take the rust off, I haven’t played in a while, so it was great to get out there,” he said.

“I’ve played with those boys from the NSW team before, so I knew what I was in for, I knew it was going to be hard.

“It was very difficult to get up against them; there were a lot of tough teams out there but we did well for what we had.”

Want to play? Head to the Championships at Randwick Barracks, from December 2-6. Contact Lt Bianca Kilborn on (07) 3332 5280 or defencewaterpolo.admin@defence.gov.au

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Goalkeeper Sgt Camille Reed rises out of the water to defend the goal during a game at the Australian Country Water Polo Championships. Photo: Sgt Peter Borys

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OCdt Hannah Burrell moves the ball for NSW during the ADF Combined Services Hockey Tournament.Photo: AB Leo Baumgartner

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DOUBLE BLUES

NSW men’s and women’s hockey teams victorious

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