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Leadership
Effective leadership is at the heart of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
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Navy retrieves drifting Pacific tsunami buoy
This week, in favourable sea conditions and 250 nautical miles southeast of Tonga, the crew of HMNZS Aotearoa retrieved a Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoy that had been drifting since it broke its mooring in December.
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All in a day's work
Information systems operator Lance Corporal Desiree Arnold has found herself in a Navy ship in the southern ocean, managing a Managed Isolation Facility, and setting up technical communications equipment in the past year.
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Christchurch
At 12.51pm on 22 February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the city of Christchurch. 185 people died, and thousands were injured in the quake, making it the second worst natural disaster in New Zealand’s history, behind the Napier earthquake of 1931. Buildings collapsed or were severely damaged and critical infrastructure including water, roads, sewerage, power and telecommunications went down. The New Zealand Defence Force responded by undertaking its largest ever humanitarian assistance mission.
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LCC
Land Component Commander (LCC) advises Commander Joint Forces New Zealand on the use of land forces and commands the land forces. This includes sending soldiers to overseas operations.
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NZ Army helps Ōtaki students and ambassador mark end of Korean War
The anniversary of the end of the Korean War has again been marked in a small lower North Island town with the help of school children and the New Zealand Army’s 16th Field Regiment this week.
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Enhancing the participation of women
Wāhine Toa is one of our key diversity and inclusion programmes and focuses on the enhancement of the participation of women across NZDF. Wāhine Toa also has a brother programme, Tāne Toa.
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Aotearoa
The Royal New Zealand Navy’s newest vessel, HMNZS Aotearoa, recently proved her capability to refuel ships at sea in an exercise with the Royal Australian Navy.
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NZDF personnel deploy to assist with evacuations from Afghanistan
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has commenced deployment of a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H(NZ) Hercules aircraft and personnel to assist with international efforts to evacuate New Zealanders and other foreign nationals from Afghanistan.
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Personnel deployed on Afghanistan evacuations return to New Zealand
The majority of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel who assisted with the Afghanistan evacuations have returned to New Zealand.