New Zealand Defence Force
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Forty-four New Zealand Defence Force personnel will depart for a four-month tour of duty in the Solomon Islands tomorrow, 18 March.
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Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel in Timor-Leste performed an aero medical evacuation (AME) for a 20 year old local woman requiring an emergency caesarean last night.
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A day at a Navy, Army or Air Force base is up for grabs as prizes in Operation KIWI, a design competition for students, launched by the New Zealand Defence Force today.
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An admiration for Maori culture by Australian Soldiers serving with their New Zealand colleagues in Timor-Leste has seen a unique welcome performed for a party of visiting New Zealand Army VIPs.
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Open Day and Air Show at Ohakea on Sunday 16 March will be free to those people who had bought tickets to the Hamilton Airshow, scheduled for this weekend.
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WAIOURU — A state-of-the-art computer generated Weapons Training System (WTS) was officially opened and ready for action at the Waiouru army camp yesterday.
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force has signed a five year contract with international engineering consultancy firm Beca Applied Technology.
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AUCKLAND — The Navy’s Seamanship and Navigational Training Vessel, HMNZS KAHU, suffered water damage in an incident at the Devonport Naval Base this morning.
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Chief of Army Major General Lou Gardiner said that New Zealand soldiers in Timor Leste, who are part of the Australian led International Security Force (ISF) in the country, have a vital role to play in the development of the young nation and should take justifiable pride in what they are doing.
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WELLINGTON — The Chief of Defence Staff, United Kingdom Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Force of Australia Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston and New Zealand’s Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae met this week in Wellington for the biennial BRITANZ Principal’s meeting.
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WAIOURU — The NZ Police investigation into Operation Valour remains active and they are continuing their appeal for any possible witnesses or information surrounding the break-in to Waiouru Army Museum on the morning of December 2.
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New Zealand’s Multi Role Vessel HMNZS CANTERBURY along with ships from the Australian and French Defence Forces, is taking part in Exercise Sea Lion in the Townsville and inner Great Barrier Reef areas off Australia’s eastern coast.
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The New Zealand Army has procured three water purification units capable of being used in harsh operational environments and civil defence emergencies.
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NORTHLAND — ROTOITI, the first of the four Inshore Patrol Vessels being built entirely in New Zealand by Tenix in Whangarei, was launched in Whangarei Harbour on 30 July.
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New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel attended the opening of the Arras Museum in France last week.
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ROTORUA — Bay of Plenty residents will have a chance to see the world renowned New Zealand Army Band when they perform at the spectacular Bay of Plenty Searchlight Tattoo at the International Stadium, Rotorua on 23 and 24 February.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The largest ever deployment to Antarctica by the New Zealand Defence Force has come to an end, with 57 personnel returning to Christchurch today.
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WAIOURU — The Chief of Army Major General Lou Gardiner will review the Territorial Force Commissioning Course (TFCC) officer graduation and Onwards Day Parade at Waiouru this Saturday.
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The New Zealand Defence Force’s year long commitment to the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre in Southern Lebanon (UNMACC-SL) has ended.
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WAIOURU — The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) are conducting their annual artillery exercise in Waiouru this month alongside the 16th Field Regiment Royal New Zealand Artillery of the NZ Army.
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WAIOURU — A number of military and civilian persons have become ill from a suspected viral gastroenteritis at Waiouru Army Camp this week.
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A member of the New Zealand Defence Force received a minor injury in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on 16 January, 2008 and is to return home to recover.
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AUCKLAND — Navy Frigate HMNZS TE KAHA will berth alongside Princes Wharf from Thursday, 24 January until sailing for Guard Ship Duties for Auckland Anniversary Day at 09:30 am Monday, 28 January.
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CENTRAL PLATEAU — The NZ Army welcomed the announcement this morning that a reward has been formally offered in an effort to find further information leading to the recovery of the medal sets that were stolen from Waiouru Army Museum in December.
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AUCKLAND — His Excellency the Honourable Anand Satyanand, PCNZM, Governor General of New Zealand will review the Navy on Parade at 10:00 am on Friday 18 January 2008.
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AUCKLAND — In the first formal tasking for the Navy in 2008, a ceremony to mark the official change of Commanding Officer for the Navy frigate HMNZS TE KAHA will be held at 1030 on Wednesday 16 January, at the Devonport Naval Base.
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A 6-month old girl with a high fever was evacuated by a RNZAF Iroquois from a small island off the northern coast of Timor-Leste in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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WAIOURU — Doug Elliott has loaned his family medal group, which his father Keith Elliott VC had worn from approximately 1965 until his death in 1989, to be used by the Army Museum until the stolen medals are returned.
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AUCKLAND — An RNZAF A-4 Skyhawk in its outdoor storage compound at RNZAF Base Woodbourne 12 December 2007 SAFE Air Ltd in Blenheim will start a significant modification programme to their leased Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Base Woodbourne hangar after the RNZAF’s retired A-4 Skyhawk fleet was placed in outdoor storage today.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — After more than a year of training, Palmerston North’s Tim McAlevey is on the verge of realising his dream of flying an Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion.
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Major General Rhys Jones was on a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3-K Orion as it touched down in Niue, Rarotonga and Samoa during scheduled maritime surveys this week.
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A six month tour of duty in Timor-Leste will began for 148 New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel on Wednesday.
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AUCKLAND — Two of the remaining three Navy In Shore Patrol Craft, HMNZS WAKAKURA and HMNZS KIWI will enter Auckland Harbour for the final time at 7:30 am Thursday 29 November 2007 proudly flying their Decommissioning Pennants.
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Trade training in the New Zealand Army will align with best practice in civilian industry under a new agreement between the Army and industry training organisation Tranzqual.
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AUCKLAND — The Auckland based Naval Volunteer Reserve Unit, HMNZS NGAPONA sited at St Mary’s Bay, is about to close its doors and vacate the current location as it moves to premises within the Devonport Naval Base.
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WAIOURU — A fire which has burnt around 800 hectares of the Waiouru Military Training Area at Waiouru is now contained.
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WELLINGTON — .Come and see our fantastic mob of military and civilian moustaches.
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AUCKLAND — A ceremony to mark the Change of Command of the Deputy Chief of Navy, the Maritime Component Commander and the Commanding Officer PHILOMEL will be held at 11 am on Friday, 30 November at the Devonport Naval Base.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Forty-four New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will depart for a four month tour of duty in the Solomon Islands on Tuesday.
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WAIOURU — Forty cadets will graduate after eleven months at the Waiouru Army Camp.
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AUCKLAND — FNS LA MOQUEUSE will conduct a goodwill port visit to Auckland next week, berthing at Captain Cook Wharf, Auckland at 8 am on Thursday 29 November.
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AUCKLAND — Keeping fit and active is part of life in the Air Force; the challenge is finding different ways to maintain and improve on it.
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AUCKLAND — Life as a member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Number 5 Squadron can be described as a lot of things, but boring is certainly not one of them.
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Two New Zealand Army patrols have been awarded Bronze Medals recognising their achievements in what is seen by many as one of the most challenging events in the British Army training calendar.
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The Air Force is well known for putting in the hard yards when it comes to growing a moustache for Movember, but Flying Officer Matt Ferris has taken efforts to a new level.
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WHANGANUI — Soldiers from the Wanganui based, 5 Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Battalion Group (5WWCT) will be training on the streets of Wanganui during the weekend of 16-18 November.
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AUCKLAND — The inaugural Senior Sailors Symposium is to be hosted by the Royal New Zealand Navy in Auckland from Tuesday 13 November to Friday 16 November 2007.
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A 21-year-old Fielding man heads to Japan next week to represent New Zealand in the 'Olympics' of trade training.
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WELLINGTON — New Zealand Defence Force personnel will mount a dawn to dusk vigil over the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the National War Memorial in Buckle Street Wellington to commemorate Armistice Day on 11 November.
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AUCKLAND — Having weathered typically challenging spring weather and sea conditions while surveying over the last 10 weeks, the Navy’s Survey and Hydrographic vessel, HMNZS RESOLUTION, is now heading home to the Devonport Naval Base, berthing at 08:30 am on Saturday 3 November.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A ceremony to mark the official change of Commanding Officer for the Canterbury Branch of the Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve, HMNZS PEGASUS, will be held at 7.00 pm, Monday 5 November at Montreal St, Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Senior Army leaders from some of New Zealand’s closest military allies have met in Christchurch as part of a long-running agreement to ensure the armies can operate effectively together.
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The two NZDF personnel injured on Sunday when a weapon accidentally discharged inside a vehicle were evacuated to a coalition treatment centre in Germany last night.
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The Chief of Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Graham Lintott has today welcomed a Government announcement that the Agusta 109 is the preferred helicopter to replace the Air Forces fleet of Sioux Helicopters.
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AUCKLAND — It’s a challenging job commanding a squadron of Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopters, but Wing Commander Ian MacPherson thrives on it.
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AUCKLAND — This year there will be a large NZ Army presence at, and competing in, the Auckland Marathon with the aim of showcasing the Army as a viable career option to both competitors and supporters alike.
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After six months in the Afghan desert summer, the tenth rotation of the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team (NZPRT) will return to New Zealand this Sunday.
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Kerikeri soldier Sapper Sam Jones, 20, will be among a contingent of New Zealand soldiers testing their skills in the arduous Cambrian Patrol exercise in Wales this month.
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Exercise Wolf III, a month long New Zealand Army exercise conducted across the North Island, will finish today.
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AUCKLAND — It’s a challenging job commanding a squadron of Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K Orion aircraft, but Wing Commander Logan Cudby thrives on it.
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Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) technicians are working in extreme temperatures from -38degC to -55degC to repair a mechanical fault that has delayed the departure of a C-130 Hercules from Antarctica.
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AUCKLAND — On Wednesday 17 October, a contingent of 77 New Zealand Defence Force personnel will depart from Ohakea Air Force Base to begin a six month deployment to Afghanistan.
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GISBORNE — Facing another weekend at sea surveying in Hawke's Bay, the ship’s company of HMNZS RESOLUTION reflect on a well-earned break taken alongside in Gisborne last weekend.
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Bugler Sergeant Stephen Pilkington plays the Last Post on the Cross of Sacrifice 12 October 2007 Around 200 New Zealanders gathered today at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium to mark New Zealand’s most tragic day - October 12 1917.
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New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel joined hundreds of Kiwis at the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate in Belgium yesterday.
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Ten veterans from as far afield as Kamo to Geraldine travelled to Belgium recently to attend a number of ceremonies to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele.
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AUCKLAND — The Navy Museum is exhibiting a collection of photographs entitled “Peace in Afghanistan’ – a photographic pictorial exhibition of large format photographs taken by Naval Commander Karl Woodhead.
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WELLINGTON — A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion crew saved the lives of six fishermen on the weekend when it located their boat, Denisiola, drifting 10km North of Tonga.
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WELLINGTON — The 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendeale will be marked with a commemorative service at the National War Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Wellington on Friday, October 12.
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NORTHLAND — Former Governor General Dame Cath Tizard has been appointed the Honorary Colonel of 3rd Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) and Northland Battalion Group.
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A second Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft will arrive in Canada tomorrow for the beginning of modifications to extend its life until 2017.
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New Zealand’s newest Victoria Cross holder Corporal Willie Apiata VC attended a ceremony in Guildford, south of London on Sunday to honour one of our most famous VC recipients Lord Bernard Freyberg VC.
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GISBORNE — The Navy’s hydrographic and survey vessel, HMNZS RESOLUTION, will make an operational visit to her adopted homeport of Gisborne from 4 - 8 October.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The Peoples Liberation Army Navy Ship’s HAERBIN (DDG112), a LUHU Destroyer and HONGZEHU (AOR881), a FUQING class Tanker will visit Auckland from Sunday 7 October to Wednesday 10 October.
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New Zealanders and the people of Belgium will come together at a series of memorial services to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium from 4 – 12 October.
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A Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopter crew serving with the New Zealand Defence Force in Timor-Leste performed a life saving evacuation on Tuesday night when they saved a baby suffering from respiratory difficulties.
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LEVIN — While most Kiwi’s are relaxing at home enthralled by the Rugby World Cup, Levin’s Karen Tatana is busy tasking military helicopters in Timor Leste.
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New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will attend a special ceremony in Surrey, England on 30 September to honour one of New Zealand’s most famous soldiers and military commanders.
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Primary school children in Timor Leste received a special delivery recently when a New Zealand Defence Force Iroquois helicopter delivered books to their school.
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“My great uncle, Charles Shearer of Ross, Westland was wounded fatally 7 June 1917 during the Battle of Messines.
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WAIOURU — One hundred school students will be introduced to the unique challenges and opportunities of Army life during a four-day stay at Waiouru Army Camp next week.
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The men and women of HMNZS CANTERBURY and Whiskey Company 1RNZIR took time out from their Joint Exercise to wish the All Blacks good luck in their current campaign.
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Traditional Kiwi products including ANZAC biscuits, Marmite and Bluebird chips will be among the goodies in parcels opened on Christmas Day by New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and police personnel on operational postings overseas.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — A 25-strong representative Army Rugby Team from the People’s Republic of China will visit New Zealand 23 September – 6 October 2007.
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The New Zealand Army will be helping the Navy put its newest ship through her paces over the next week with the first integrated trial of HMNZS CANTERBURY’s embarked forces capabilities.
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A ceremony to mark the official change of Commanding Officer for the Navy frigate HMNZS TE MANA will be held at 1030 on Wednesday 19 September 2007, at the Devonport Naval Base.
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WOODBOURNE — The Royal New Zealand Air Force is preparing to move its A-4 Skyhawk aircraft from their Safe Air hangar at Woodbourne.
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After nearly a six month break from shipping lane surveying for Land Information New Zealand, including a three month maintenance period and a trip up to the Pacific Islands, the Navy Hydrographic and Survey Vessel, HMNZS RESOLUTION is returning to Hawke's Bay to commence another eight weeks hydrographic surveying.
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A Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopter will thunder over central North Island high schools next week during an Air Force careers visit to the area.
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WELLINGTON — The Royal New Zealand Navy’s newest ship, the Multi Role Vessel HMNZS CANTERBURY, is arriving in Wellington on Thursday 13 September, and staying until Tuesday 18 September.
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AUCKLAND — Conducting pilotage training for a Naval Officer of the Watch Course around the outer islands of the Hauraki Gulf yesterday, Navy In-Shore Patrol Vessels HMNZS KIWI and HMNZS WAKAKURA were definitely in the right place at the right time to go to the aid of a local mariner in distress.
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Navy Frigate, HMNZS TE MANA sailed from Devonport in late August in support of the Ministry of Fisheries, and in particular, the enforcement of fish species quotas in the waters around New Zealand.
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Central and upper North Island residents should not be alarmed at the sight of Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft flying as low as 250 ft over the region over the period 11 - 21 Sept 07.
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A New Zealand Army soldier has received a Chief of Defence Force Commendation in recognition of his courage and professionalism after an attack by a suicide bomber in Egypt.
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DUNEDIN — First prize in the New Zealand Defence Force’s Operation Warpaint art competition has been awarded to Gemma Baldock (12) of Dunedin.
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MARLBOROUGH — Statement From Land Component Commander, Joint Forces New Zealand, regarding the release of the Coronial Report on the Weld Pass Unimog Accident.
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WHANGAREI — Over the next fortnight, Whangarei will be the port of call for four Navy ships undergoing training and surveying in the Northland area.
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The New Zealand Defence Force will contribute to an international military tattoo in Kuala Lumpur on September 7, 8 and 9 to mark Malaysia’s 50th year of independence.
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DUNEDIN — The second of the Navy’s ANZAC Class frigates, HMNZS TE MANA, will visit Dunedin from Saturday 8 September to Tuesday 11 September.
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