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The Women in the NZDF Report is an annual report providing transparency around the participation of women in the NZDF. The report includes NZDF’s gender-related strategic initiatives and highlights successes.
The Strategic Defence Policy Statement recognises the full scope of value that Defence provides for New Zealand, across the Community, Nation, and World. The Policy Statement also articulates a set of principles to describe the Government's expectations for Defence and provide enduring policy guidance, examines developments in the strategic environment, and updates the Defence Force outcomes, principal roles, and priorities.
FLOC 35 is the NZ Army’s capstone operating concept into the near future. It provides guidance for the development of concepts, experimentation, planning, force design and capability modernisation. It aims to provide a series of goals and overarching direction for the development of capability and strategy around which the NZ Army can generate and sustain the future force.
A document that explains the NZDF's LGBTTIQ+ Inclusion Plan 2020-2025
In this issue we showcase the great work of HMNZS Wellington and her crew, on a mission to Tokelau and the Cook Islands to deliver vaccines. We detail a new way for our experienced sailors to commission as officers, and meet a Waikato nurse who’s getting taste of military life as a naval reservist. Our NZDF Maori Cultural Advisor, Lieutenant Jack Rudolph, talks about Navy life in the eighties, and we have a one-on-one with our Defence Attaché in Washington DC.
Read the latest on HMNZS Te Mana’s progress as she transitions from building site to warship during her upgrade in Canada. HMNZS Aotearoa, fresh from training with the Australians, goes out of its way to scoop up a wayward wave buoy that had decided to embark on an unscheduled voyage of its own. We cover the latest Raoul Island mission with HMNZS Canterbury, meet some of our mana wāhine as part of International Women’s Day, and showcase fourth-generation Navy siblings Anelies and Matt, who work in HMNZS Manawanui.
The August issue of Air Force News has hit the shelves. Read about our C-130 crew’s dramatic medical evacuation of a patient from Antarctica, catch up on our No. 5 Squadron team in Florida teach their US instructors how to conduct a real life SAR operation, see our Hercules avoid a surface-to-air missile and celebrate Matariki with our people.
Put your feet up and catch up on all the news, including hearing from the aircrew who will be last to train on the P-3K2 Orion and one of the first on the P-8A Poseidon, see what it takes to run a Seasprite exercise in the Alps, spot our new pilots training in new skies, and read about the latest exercise training with our mates in the Army.
Disaster has struck with the first Air Force News issue of the year. The issue is dedicated to a scenario of what happens during our immediate response to a tropical cyclone devastating a Pacific Island. It takes you on a 24-hour journey from the first planning meetings, to the Orion surveillance flight of the island and ending with a Hercules lifting off with a plane-load of immediate disaster aid – and every step in between. Take a behind-the-scenes look at how the Air Force jumps to action to ensure the delivery of much-needed aid reaches the people who need it most.
In this issue read about Sue Gingles and her long wait for her Red Diamond, how we train our young soldiers, the New Zealand Army Band's visit to Stewart Island, and much more.