So
much more than ‘stuff’
- Operation Sumatra Assist
THE
eyes tell you what the mind refuses to comprehend. When asked to
say what they have seen, the ADF personnel who have come face-toface
with the carnage in Banda Aceh will speak of the wreckage and mud
that covered the city.
324CSS
homes shaken in quake
- Operation Sumatra
Assist
FOR
members of No. 324 Combat Support Squadron in Butterworth, the
Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami were events they lived through.
A
squadron’s grief
- Operation Sumatra
Assist
NO.
324 Combat Support Squadron are grieving. The December 26 disaster
claimed the life of Sergeant Daniel Butler’s wife, Ronda.
Medical
miracle
- Operation Sumatra
Assist
AS
PART of the initial response to the December 26 tsunami, Aeromedical
Evacuation (AME) teams provided critical assistance to thousands
of injured people in the disaster-affected town of Banda Aceh.
300
moves a day in Aceh - Operation Sumatra
Assist
THE
Air Force is assisting their Indonesian counterparts to manage the
busy skies over Banda Aceh during one of the world’s biggest humanitarian
relief efforts.
Peacetime
service for operation - Operation Sumatra
Assist
OPERATION
Sumatra Assist is peacetime service. Personnel Policy and Employment
Conditions Branch has released conditions of service that reflect
this.
Hercs
rev up MCG - Operation Sumatra
Assist
C-130H
flying over The Melbourne Cricket Ground.
1ATS
commended for providing critical link - Operation Sumatra
Assist
A
SMALL air load team that worked around the clock to help deliver
aid into tsunami-devastated Sumatra has been commended for making
the best of a difficult situation.
B707’s
chain of aid - Operation Sumatra
Assist
A
CREW member on the first B707 assistance flight to arrive in Indonesia
after the tsunami catastrophe has described the mission as arduous
but rewarding.
Out
of the fry pan
JUST
one week into a stint with the ADF’s Security Detachment, a rocket
impacted on the SECDET building – an abrupt initiation for Leading
Aircraftman Paul Smith, from No. 386 Expeditionary Combat Support
Squadron.
High
seas rescue on UK exchange
THE
first Australian airborne electronics exchange officer to qualify
as a RAF aircraft captain helped his British counterparts to mount
an Atlantic Sea rescue off the coast of Scotland in early January.
Orion
crew marks 500 missions
TWO
AP-3Cs have flown their 500th maritime patrol surveillance mission
in the Middle East. The recent milestone was marked with a traditional
hosing down watched by all the crew.
