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Auckland Forum Makes It Easier For Veterans To Access Support
Monday, 6 November 2023, 1:12 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
A one-stop-shop of services for veterans is coming back to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland this month. Veterans' Affairs is putting the call out for serving and former New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel to join them on Wednesday 29 November for ... More >>
RNZN Ship’s Crew To Undertake Historic Survey And Submerged Wwii Bomb Disposal In Pacific Islands Mission
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 11:53 am | New Zealand Defence Force
Dive and hydrographic vessel HMNZS Manawanui has arrived in Niue, the first stop in a seven-week deployment to the south-west Pacific. Operation Calypso will involve the 70-strong Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) crew carrying out maritime security patrols, ... More >>
Trans-tasman Commute No Barrier For Engineer Thriving In Reserve Force Career
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 2:33 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Corporal Toby Hutton learned the basics of soldiering on the parade ground but has since gained a raft of leadership skills and stays enlisted in the New Zealand Army despite now living in Sydney. The 35-year-old combat engineer joined the Reserve ... More >>
RNZAF Poseidon Crew Find Fijian Fishers Missing For Nine Days
Friday, 13 October 2023, 7:17 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon crew has found three Fijian fishers nine days after they were reported missing aboard their 8.5-metre wooden fishing boat. The fishers, aboard the Lewa , left Lautoka planning to go fishing at Nanuya ... More >>
Reserve Force Gives Biomedical Engineer Contrasting Taste Of Combat Engineering
Thursday, 12 October 2023, 11:36 am | New Zealand Defence Force
In her day job, Auckland’s 2nd Lieutenant Lily Feng uses her biomedical engineering training to sell respiratory devices to help with people’s breathing. In her New Zealand Army Reserve Force job, 2nd Lieutenant Feng initially spent five years as ... More >>
NZ Army Trains Alongside Fiji In Jungle Highlands During Exercise Cartwheel
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 10:43 am | New Zealand Defence Force
The mountains and tropical valleys of Fiji’s Nausori Highlands provided the ideal grounds for jungle warfare and weapons training during Exercise Cartwheel 23. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2309/2c0a1ea8256b1bc0b7c4.jpeg" ... More >>
New Zealand Women Take The Lead In Oldest UN Peacekeeping Mission
Monday, 25 September 2023, 10:07 am | New Zealand Defence Force
Working alongside personnel from around the world as part of the United Nations’ longest-running peacekeeping mission, has been a rewarding challenge for two New Zealand women. The United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) is now in ... More >>
First Cook Islands Coastwatchers Plaque Unveiled In New Zealand
Monday, 18 September 2023, 11:21 am | New Zealand Defence Force
In an important milestone for the legacy of the Second World War coastwatchers, a plaque for radio operator Pu Banaba has been unveiled at O’Neill’s Point Cemetery on Auckland’s North Shore. It is the first Cook Islands coastwatchers plaque to ... More >>
NZDF Personnel Plant Mangroves, Grow Connections In Disaster Preparation Exercise
Friday, 1 September 2023, 11:27 am | New Zealand Defence Force
Twelve New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel are joining the US Navy ship USS Pearl Harbor, as eight nations combine for an exercise aimed at preparing Indo-Pacific countries’ responses to a large-scale disaster. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2309/ef7bbe31f84818b5711f.jpeg" ... More >>
RNZAF’s new poseidon cuts teeth in pacific fisheries mission
Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 6:03 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) newest aircraft has been involved in a significant multinational fisheries surveillance operation for the Pacific’s Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). Operation Island Chief was a 12-day operation covering ... More >>
New Zealand Sends Aid To Autonomous Region Of Bougainville After Eruption
Friday, 11 August 2023, 2:07 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) C-130 Hercules has gone to Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, carrying aid supplies following a volcanic eruption which has affected more than 8000 people, the New Zealand Defence Force and Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... More >>
Talisman Sabre Hones NZDF’s Readiness For Combat
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 11:39 am | New Zealand Defence Force
New Zealand troops have proved their worth in working alongside a dozen other militaries during a large-scale combat exercise in Australia. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2308/6967e7be70e0bef603c8.jpeg" width="720" height="480"> Around 300 New Zealand Defence ... More >>
Returning To Germany For Invictus Games Provides Closure For Air Force Veteran
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 10:43 am | New Zealand Defence Force
When Whenuapai man Mike Cotton heads to Düsseldorf, Germany, in September to represent New Zealand at the Invictus Games, he hopes to close a traumatic chapter associated with the same country more than 30 years ago. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2308/2d0c76e05e9afd5ce90e.jpeg" ... More >>
Invictus Games Give Navy Veteran Sense Of Belonging
Tuesday, 1 August 2023, 10:46 am | New Zealand Defence Force
David Sanderson, a retired Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) logistics supply specialist, will head to the 2023 Invictus Games in Düsseldorf, Germany, after selection for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Invictus team lifted him from a low point in ... More >>
NZ Navy Ship Completes Maritime Patrol In Samoa To Help Protect Fisheries
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 3:26 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
A Royal New Zealand Navy maritime patrol of Samoan waters has pleasingly turned up fishing vessels operating within fishing regulations. HMNZS Taupo last week completed a 967-nautical mile maritime security and fisheries patrol of Samoa’s Exclusive ... More >>
PNG Officer Trains NZ Army’s Future Officers
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 3:23 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Papua New Guinea Defence Force’s Captain Peter Morlen is normally more at home teaching the techniques of jungle warfare in the heat of his home country, but is warming to his task passing on his knowledge to New Zealand soldiers in the colder ... More >>
NZDF Co-hosts Members Of 19 Militaries For Disaster Response Training
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 2:07 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Members of 19 foreign militaries will collaborate with the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and 12 domestic agencies in Wellington over the next 10 days, to plan how they could best work together in the aftermath of a major earthquake. This year’s ... More >>
Lower North Island Spitfire Flypast Celebrates Centenary Of NZ Military Aviation
Monday, 12 June 2023, 5:56 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) formation, featuring the Biggin Hill Trust Spitfire, will conduct a flypast of lower North Island centres on Friday 16 June. The flypast is in honour of the centenary of military aviation in New Zealand, which ... More >>
NZ Army Helps Repair Community Halls And Water Tanks In Tonga
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 2:24 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
New Zealand Army personnel have pitched in with their Tongan counterparts to help restore community buildings and other structures as the country continues to recover from last year’s volcanic eruption and tsunami. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2305/e15d15a31381edffaedf.jpeg" ... More >>
King’s Coronation Role A Privilege For Auckland Sailor
Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 8:23 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The pageantry of a Coronation will be uncharted waters for Royal New Zealand Navy Able Weapon Technician James Strachan. The Auckland-born Weapons Systems Maintainer will be part of the 21-strong New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) contingent taking ... More >>
