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The official newspaper of the Royal Australian NavyVolume 56,
No. 02, February 14, 2013
SERVING AUSTRALIA WITH PRIDE
NEWS
WE’RE HOME
ALL HANDS: (L-R) LS Alison Nolan, AB Brook Williams and AB
Ashley
Sullivan, of HMAS Anzac, participate in a replenishment at
sea.
Photo: SGT William Guthrie
HMAS Anzac has returned home after a six-month Operation Slipper
deployment
– Page 2 Centrespread
New squadron heads overseas to train on MH-60R Romeos
Helping handHMAS Tobruk visits Papua New Guinea to begin a busy
year PAGE 3
All set for USA
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SERVING AUSTRALIA WITH PRIDE
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02 NEWSFebruary 14, 2013
Michael Brooke
THERE could not be a more jubilant wel-come for a Navy warship
returning from deployment than the Australia Day home-coming HMAS
Anzac received from cheer-ing family and friends in Sydney
Harbour.
Anzac glided into the harbour amid Australia Day celebrations on
January 26 after completing a six-month deployment to Operation
Slipper.
More than 100 ships competing in the Australia Day Regatta were
in the harbour to welcome Anzac, while almost 1000 fam-ily and
friends cheered wildly when she berthed at Fleet Base East.
Some of Anzac’s crew members had planned their homecoming and
reunion with family and loved ones.
As Anzac berthed, ABATA Luke Molloy unveiled a giant banner for
his girl-friend that read: “My sweet Kirsty will you marry me?”
An excited Kirsty Furner squealed in
surprise and nodded in acknowledgement.ABATA Molloy said he
started planning
the marriage proposal at the half-way mark of the
deployment.
“We met as Air Force cadets more than 10-years ago and I figured
it was time to tie the knot,” he said.
LS Will Turpin was at the wharf to meet his wife ABMED Jodie
Turpin who returned with Anzac.
Owing to Navy’s high operational tempo, they have not celebrated
a wedding anniversary together since they married in 2010.
“One of us has always been away on a course or a deployment,” LS
Turpin said.
“We have done consecutive deploy-ments to Op Slipper but we hope
we will be together for our anniversary this year.”
Another reunion had well-wishers seeing double when LCPL Gavin
Floyd hugged his twin brother WO Leslie Floyd who returned with
Anzac.
“Perhaps absence does make the heart grow fonder but in any case
we’ll be seeing
more of each other this year because I have been posted to
NUSHIP Canberra’s SAD,” LCPL Floyd said.
Anzac’s deployment earned not only praise from the top brass but
six 2012 Fleet awards including the prestigious Gloucester Cup.
CO Anzac CMDR John Stavridis said the secret of Anzac’s success
was the pro-fessionalism and dedication to duty of her ship’s
company.
“None of Anzac’s achievements would have been possible without
this crew,” he said.
“Everyone on board Anzac has been a part of a tight-knit team
during this deploy-ment, working in arduous and tough condi-tions
to secure the maritime environment for legitimate trade.”
After the arrival, CMDR Stavridis hand-ed over command to the
incoming CO, CMDR Jason Hunter.
See the centrespread for more highlights from Anzac’s MEAO
deployment.
Michael Brooke
NAVY helicopters and Air Force fighter jets took to the sky over
Sydney Harbour to celebrate Australia Day in grand style.
The ce lebra t ions on the Harbour were focused around the
warship HMAS Sydney, which served as the flagship for the 177th
Australia Day Regatta.
The regatta involved 100 sail-ing ships and celebrated the
arrival of the First Fleet.
Sydney was supported by a 816SQN Seahawk that flew around the
harbour with a large Australian flag draped beneath its wheel
car-
riage, the Navy Band, Hawk fight-ers and a 21-gun salute fired
by a battery from Army’s 8 Bde.
In his welcome address to 100 VIPs, CO Sydney CMDR Karl
Brinckmann noted the significance of Sydney’s splendid history,
bat-tle honours and pride as testified through her motto of
‘thorough and ready’.
He said the frigate’s suc-cess hosting so many people on
Australia Day was a tribute to the hard work of her ship’s
company.
“Sydney’s ship’s company has worked tirelessly for two weeks to
get her ship shape for the Australia Day celebrations and her
30th
anniversary celebration on January 29,” he said.
Sydney’s cooks and steward’s provided more than 100 guests with
a buffet luncheon.
They provided Aussie cuisine and hospitality that featured roast
lamb, king prawns, oysters and several spicy curries.
ABCK Cherie Bernard said the cooks succeeded in showcasing their
skills.
“The cooks have an important role in maintaining the crew’s
morale so we want people in the wider community to see how well
sailors eat,” she said.
The Navy Band, led by
ABMUSN Chris Thompson, gave a performance that featured many
Australian classics that had guests dancing on the flight-deck.
Elsewhere in NSW, HMA Ships Huon and Yarra joined the Hunter
community at Throsby Wharf as part of the Newcastle Maritime
Festival on Australia Day.
CO Yarra LCDR Brendan O’Hara said a number of his crew had
family ties to the Hunter and the open day marked a great
opportunity to showcase life in the Navy to families, friends and
the broader community.
“It is an exciting time to be in the Navy,” he said.
Sydney takes pride of place on Harbour
Fleet awards cap off a top year
Let us rejoice in AnzacALL CUDDLES: LSATA Brent McKenzie with
his sons, (L-R) Remm, Wade and Beau, on the wharf at Garden Island
after his return on HMAS Anzac. Photo: ABIS Jesse Rhynard
TOP SPOT: HMAS Sydney was the flagship of the Australia Day
Regatta in Sydney Harbour. Photo: LSIS Brenton Freind
LONG AWAITED: ABATA Luke Molloy proposes to his fiancé Kirsty on
arrival at FBE. Inset, Hayley and Chelsea await the arrival of
their dad LS Brad Sharman. Photos: ABIS Jesse Rhynard and ABIS Dove
Smithett
AWARDS CAP OFF YEARHMAS Anzac was awarded the Gloucester Cup and
five other major Fleet awards for her achievements last year.
Anzac received the cup as the unit/crew/squadron fore-most in
all aspects of opera-tions, safety, reliability and unit level
training. COMAUSFLT RADM Tim Barrett said Anzac’s performance
during 2012 was exceptional.
“Faced with the significant challenge of bringing a ship out of
extended readiness, the ship’s company successfully completed unit
readiness and mission readiness evalua-tions at first attempt and
finally delivered a strong operational effect in the MEAO,” he
said.
“These significant achieve-ments can be directly traced
to the professionalism of this ship’s company and as such they
are deserved winners.”
Other awards Anzac received:
u the Spada Shield as the surface combatant fore-most in
operations, safety, reliability, warfare and unit level
training.
u the Commodore Wardle Cup for the highest stand-ard in Fleet
communica-tions,
u the Wormald Shield for the highest standard in combat
survivability,
u the Supply Excellence Award and
u the Electronic Warfare Proficiency Shield.
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03NEWS February 14, 2013
THE Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance has taken delivery of the
first blocks for the second AWD, Brisbane.
The two blocks, manufactured by BAE Systems, arrived in Adelaide
by tug and barge from Williamstown in Victoria late last month.
Former Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare said the blocks
would be located in the front third of the ship and once
consolidated would house the 48 cell Mk41 verti-cal launch system
(VLS).
“The VLS can store and then fire SM-2 or evolved sea sparrow
missiles in quick succession and is an important element of the
combat system that will be installed into the Hobart-class
destroyers,” Mr Clare said.
The three guided-missile destroy-ers are being constructed using
a modular method where blocks are manufactured across four
ship-
Blocks for second destroyer arrive
yards and consolidated at the South Australian Government’s
Common User Facility at Techport Australia.
The first destroyer, Hobart, is expected to be delivered to Navy
in early 2016.
Consolidation of second ship, Brisbane, is due to start early
next year, while fabrication has begun on the blocks for the third
destroyer, Sydney.
“BAE has significantly improved the quality of their
manufacturing
performance and delivered blocks that are virtually defect
free,” Mr Clare said.
The AWD is based on a proven Navantia design used by the Spanish
Navy and when complete will be one of the most capable warships of
its size in the world.
The ships will be equipped with the Aegis Weapon System, making
them capable of assuming a leading command and control role within
the ADF as well as coalition forces.
BUILDING STONES: The first blocks for the second destroyer,
Brisbane, on the barge ready to be unloaded in Adelaide.
LEUT Sarah West
FIFTEEN Western Australia-based Navy members received
Operational Service Medals (OSM) from CN VADM Ray Griggs on January
29 to recognise their service to Australian border protection
operations.
Personnel and family members filled the cinema at HMAS Stirling
to watch the presentation ceremony, the first opportunity for the
new OSMs to be pre-sented in Western Australia.
While presenting the awards, VADM Griggs told the audience of
his desire to see personnel recognised for the work they do to
protect Australia’s maritime borders.
“For a number of Navy personnel, this has been the only
operation they have served in. Many have spent their whole careers
on border protection oper-ations making a vital contribution to the
security of Australia,” CN said.
“It is appropriate that this dedication and sacrifice is
recognised.
“These are not standard every day operations. This is
challenging work, from the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean to
the fishery and anti-people smuggling in the north. Our people do
this job in an exceptional way.”
PONPC Lisa Fitzsimmons spent five years on Operation Resolute as
part of the Armidale-class patrol boat crew Attack Four.
She said it was an honour to receive
the award directly from CN. “When serving in patrol boats,
border protection is our life,” PONPC Fitzsimmons said.
“Every time we sail, it is to conduct real-time operations with
real-time risks.
“It is all work and no play, so this recognition is a tribute to
the sacrifices sailors make every day on border protec-tion
operations.”
During the presentation ceremony, VADM Griggs also awarded a
posthu-mous OSM to the family of LSSTD Geoff Cahill, whose wife and
daughter accepted the award.
“One of the things I have been very keen to do is to ensure we
acknowledge those who’ve qualified for this award, but who have
sadly passed away in the intervening period,” VADM Griggs said.
“LSSTD Cahill was the CO’s steward when I was CO of HMAS
Arunta.
“He was a terrific sailor, utterly pro-fessional, a gentlemen
and a true team player.
“He personified all that was inspiring about our people. It
means a lot to me to be here today to be able to present this medal
personally to the Cahill family.”
VADM Griggs said full production of the OSM was now under way
and asked eligible members to be patient while they were produced
and distributed.
“It’s great to see so many people around the country being
recognised for the important work they have done to preserve the
security of Australia,” he said.
Recognised for a vital contribution
HONOURED: CN VADM Ray Griggs and CO HMAS Stirling CAPT Angela
Bond with Ella Cahill and her daughter who received a posthumous
OSM on behalf of LSSTD Geoff Cahill. Photo: ABIS Alan Lancaster
LEUT Karina Cvejic
IT HAS been a busy start to the year for the crew of HMAS
Tobruk, as she sailed on January 21 from Fleet Base East (FBE) to
retrieve mili-tary vehicles and equipment used to re-establish a
detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Following a 1000 nautical mile journey north, Tobruk anchored in
the harbour of Townsville to embark the 25-person Army amphibious
beach team, two LCM8 landing craft and two LARC amphibious
vehicles.
Tobruk then sailed 1270 nautical miles north again for Manus
Island. Once anchored at Manus, there was a huge effort from both
ship’s com-pany and the embarked beach team to complete the
tasking. The crews worked into the night to successful-ly load all
vehicles and equipment, only staying at Manus Island for a total of
32 hours.
CO Tobruk CMDR Tim Watson said the effort displayed by every-one
on board to complete the mis-sion was outstanding.
“The men and women of Tobruk are focused and dedicated to their
ship and this tasking just proved that,” CMDR Watson said.
“The Army were well practiced and skilled in their ability to
coordi-nate and get the job done and seeing the Navy and Army
working so well together to achieve this mission has been really
satisfying.
“There was a lot of gear to load on board and the fact we got it
done in such a short amount of time just shows how professional and
focused the sailors and soldiers are.”
There was little time for fun but some of the ship’s crew took
the chance to participate in some friendly sport ashore with the
PNG Defence Force at the Tarangau Naval Base.
The PNG volleyball side proved too strong, but the Navy salvaged
some pride and managed a one-try victory in touch football.
“While it was a very busy and short visit to Manus Island,
find-ing some time for sport with the locals is always good fun and
a
First stop: Manus Island
GOING UP: A LCM8 vessel is lifted onto HMAS Tobruk in Townsville
on her mission to retrieve equipment from Manus Island.
HEAVY LOAD: An Army ABT loads a LARC vehicle (right) with
equipment at Manus Island.Photos by: LEUT Karina Cvejic
great opportunity to strengthen ties with our closest neighbour”
CMDR Watson said.
Tobruk disembarked the amphib-ious beach team and its vehicles
in Townsville before heading to Brisbane to unload the equipment
from Manus Island which included a number of trucks, a field
ambu-lance, trailers and earth-moving vehicles.
When she returns to FBE, Tobruk will enter a week of
human-itarian and disaster relief training with Australian Defence
Vessel Ocean Shield in the East Australian Exercise Area, along
with providing other support to the Fleet.
CMDR Watson said he was look-
ing forward to another challenging and successful year for the
crew.
“We have a very long and excit-ing year ahead of us.
“The capability of this ship remains unique and the fact we go
out there and do these things proves that Tobruk is still a valued
and effective asset for the ADF.
“This crew is well trained and ready for all the challenges 2013
will bring and we are very much looking forward to continuing all
our great efforts that have carried on from last year”.
Tobruk will enter an extended maintenance period next month and
is programmed to take part in Pacific Partnership later in
2013.
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04 NEWSFebruary 14, 2013
PERSONNEL are getting ready to don their leathers and hit the
road to raise money for prostate cancer research.
In early May, several hundred ADF and Public Service person-nel
will to ride from Defence bases across Australia and arrive in
Cairns on May 11.
The Long Ride 2013 will stop in country towns along the way to
raise money and awareness for prostate cancer.
VCDF AIRMSHL Mark Binskin is planning to join the ride for a
cou-ple of days and, at a recent Show ‘n Shine fundraising event in
Canberra, said the ride was an important event for personnel to
support.
“I am a strong supporter of health promotion and awareness
ini-tiatives. The Long Ride 2013 is an important one in supporting
men’s health,” he said.
Funds raised will support Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia,
which runs community awareness cam-paigns and funds research into
caus-es, detection, diagnosis and improved treatment of prostate
cancer. About 3300 Australian men die each year from prostate
cancer.
“I encourage motorcyclists from across Defence to consider
participat-ing in this important health support initiative,”
AIRMSHL Binskin said.
“If you cannot join the Long Ride or you’re not into
motorcy-
READY TO RUMBLE: Motorbikies show off their wheels at the Show
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cling, I urge you to consider sup-porting a Defence member who
is participating.
“This is an opportunity for peo-ple to increase their
understanding of prostate cancer specifically and men’s health more
broadly.”
Riders are responsible for their own costs.
Entries close March 1. Any Defence member wanting to par-
ticipate in the Long Ride can con-tact Paul Brealey at
[email protected]
You can support the team in their effort to raise funds by
donating at www.pcfafundraising.org.au/adf
For more information about The Long Ride, visit
www.freewebs.com/lon-gride2010
CMDR Alastair Cooper
DEFENCE Minister Stephen Smith ended a chapter in one of the
Navy’s more difficult periods when he sent a letter of apology to
the former CO of HMAS Melbourne II, CAPT John Stevenson, late last
year.
Mr Smith wrote that he believed CAPT Stevenson had been treated
unfairly by the government of the day and Navy after the US
destroy-er Frank E. Evans collided with Melbourne during a
South-East Asian Treaty Organisation exercise in the South China
Sea.
During the Middle Watch on June 3, 1969, the carrier had five
escorts (three US destroyers and a frigate each from the RN and
RNZN) disposed in an anti-subma-rine warfare screen while
conduct-ing an anti-submarine zig-zag plan.
In preparation for flying opera-tions, Frank E. Evans was
ordered to take up plane guard station from a sector ahead of
Melbourne, a manoeuvre the two ships had carried out three times
previously that night.
Frank E. Evans turned towards Melbourne, rather than away from
the carrier which was the norm, thus putting the ships at risk of
collision.
Despite warnings and final manoeuvring by Melbourne, Frank E.
Evans lacked sufficient situation-al awareness and she made further
alterations of course, the final one taking her under Melbourne’s
bows.
Tragically, 74 US sailors lost
their lives in the collision, mostly from the forward section of
the destroyer, which sank quickly after-wards, with most of the
remain-der of the crew being rescued by Melbourne, her boats and
aircraft.
The conduct of the USN-RAN Board of Inquiry is perceived to have
lacked balance and objectiv-ity, unfairly suggesting CAPT Stevenson
bore some respon-sibility for the collision, however a 1975 USN
film (available on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cK0kolfwUw) setting out the
‘lessons learnt’ was quite explicit in assigning responsibility to
Frank E. Evans’ CO, officer of the watch and assistant.
Subsequently in Australia, CAPT Stevenson was court martialled,
which was the traditional, formal means of determining whether he
bore any responsibility.
Although the court martial quickly found he had ‘no case to
answer’ CAPT Stevenson resigned from the Navy, ending a
distin-guished career in which he served the nation with honour in
peace and in war.
Looking at the episode through a contemporary lens, Mr Smith was
of the view the government of the day and the Navy treated CAPT
Stevenson unfairly and that if an equivalent event occurred today,
the administrative and disciplinary pro-cesses would be very
different to those of the 1960s and 70s.
Michael Brooke
HMAS Parramatta departed Fleet Base East on January 15 on a
four-month deployment to South-East Asia that will include a stint
on Operation Resolute.
‘Strike Deep’ was farewelled by about 100 family and friends
when she began her busy program for 2013, which will feature a
number of port visits and a multinational exercise designed to
enhance high-end war-fighting.
CO Parramatta CMDR Simon Cannell said the deployment would
support Australia’s diplomatic efforts in the region as a partner
in peace and prosperity.
“Parramatta starts her deployment supporting border protection
opera-tions as part of Resolute before visiting ports in South-East
Asia and northern Australia,” he said.
Parramatta is scheduled to conduct a port visit to Darwin before
visiting Langkawi, Penang and Singapore as
part of her South-East Asian deploy-ment, before rejoining
Resolute.
Later in the year, Parramatta is scheduled to join Exercise
Talisman Sabre 13, a US-led Australian sup-ported exercise designed
to improve combat training, readiness and interop-erability.
After this high-end war-fighting exercise Parramatta plans to
participate in Exercise Triton Centenary and the International
Fleet Review in October.
Apology helps right a wrong
TRAGIC EVENTS: HMAS Melbourne II circa 1969.
Striking farewellSETTING SAIL: HMAS Parramatta sails out of
Sydney Harbour for a four-month deployment from Fleet Base East.
Inset, SMNCSO Alicia Pryce is seen off by her boyfriend’s mother
Elena on the wharf. Photos: ABIS Cassie McBride and ABIS Chantell
Bianchi
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05NEWS February 14, 2013
UP AND RUNNING: Project Director Air 9000 Phase 8 MH-60R CAPT
Scott Lockey with CO NUSQN725 CMDR David Frost. Photo: POIS Ollie
Garside
NUSQN heads to FloridaCPL Max Bree
THE New Fleet Air Arm helicopter training squadron to operate
the MH-60R Romeo helicopters has been announced as 725SQN.
In line with naming tradition, the squad-ron will be known as
NUSQN725 until its anticipated commissioning in early 2015.
What makes this project even more excit-ing for the squadron’s
aircrew and maintain-ers is they will start forming in America in
coming weeks and work alongside the US Navy training on the new
choppers.
The squadron will undergo a year of classroom training and
on-the-job experi-ence working with different USN units, followed
by a year of flying RAN aircraft in the US.
CO NUSQN725 CMDR David Frost said the first group would complete
its train-ing just before the first two Navy aircraft are accepted
in December this year.
At this point the squadron will start fly-ing from Jacksonville
Naval Air Station in Florida.
“Flying our own aircraft out of Jacksonville gives us the ideal
opportunity to build up our expertise and experience under the
watchful eyes of experienced USN Romeo operators,” CMDR Frost
said.
Aircrew start training with the USN this month with the
maintainers set to begin in March.
Another 56 aircrew and maintainers will start the same training
cycle mid-year, bringing the squadron numbers up to 112.
“The US Navy is training all of our air-crew and maintainers on
these new aircraft,” CMDR Frost said. “And we have slotted straight
into its huge training system.”
For one while the adventure is exciting, it is a tad untimely,
again.
Despite his wife expecting a baby girl next month, LS Ben
Elliott is heading to Jacksonville on March 8 with the first group
of maintainers.
“My two-year-old was born when I was in the Middle East,” he
said. “So my wife and kids will probably join me in the States in
May.
“She’s excited, but she’s used to the Navy way.
“As soon as she has the flights she’ll be over the moon.”
About half the maintainers head-ing to the US are qualified on
the Classic Seahawks with a large number also coming from the
retired Sea Kings, according to LS Elliott.
“Those of us lucky enough to be selected are ecstatic. Really,
everyone can’t wait to get there that’s for sure.
“We’re all excited but it’s a little bit of an unknown working
with the Americans, they do maintenance a little bit differently to
how we do maintenance.”
NUSQN725 will return to Australia with its new choppers in early
2015 when they will be commissioned and finally known as
725SQN.
725SQN will be the operational training squadron, while 816SQN,
currently operat-ing the S-70B-2 Seahawk, will transition to the
Romeos as the operational support squadron.
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06 NEWSFebruary 14, 2013
PUBLIC consultation on the proposed removal of the Hammerhead
Crane at Fleet Base East, Garden Island, Sydney, is open until
February 18.
The proposal to remove the crane is being assessed under the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
While not heritage listed, the crane is known to have
Commonwealth Heritage values and is located outside the
Commonwealth Heritage Listed Garden Island precinct.
The crane has not been used since 1996 and presents a range of
ongoing costs, risks to workplace health and safe-ty for Defence
personnel and contractors, and limitations on ship berthing
options.
Workplace health and safety hazards associated with the
deterioration of the crane have required the permanent placement of
scaffolding to capture any objects that fall from it.
Maintenance of the Hammerhead Crane costs Defence about $770,000
a year.
The 2009 Defence White Paper established the importance of
enhanced amphibious capabilities, delivered by acquiring two new
Landing Helicopter
Dock (LHD) ships, the first in late 2013. The presence of the
crane on the
wharf where the LHDs will be berthed will restrict the Navy’s
berthing capacity and flexibility at Fleet Base East.
The proposal to remove the crane can be downloaded from
www.gml.com.au/hammerhead-crane-public-consultation or viewed at
the following locations:
u Customs House Library, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay,
NSW
u The State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW
u The library of the Department of Sustainability, Environment,
Water, Population and Communities at John Gorton Building, King
Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT.
Godden Mackay Logan Pty Ltd has been engaged by Defence to
conduct the public consultation process and written comments can be
submitted at www.gml.com.au/hammerhead-crane-public-consultation or
by email to [email protected] or post Hammerhead Crane
Removal Project, c/- Godden Mackay Logan, 78 George Street,
Redfern, NSW, 2016.
Consultation on hammerhead crane
TIGHT FIT: A computer-generated image of an LHD berthed at
Garden Island near the Hammerhead Crane
ASSAIL Two’s crew embarked in HMAS Maitland continued its hard
work over the reduced activ-ity period keeping a close eye on oil
and gas platforms during patrols in the North West Shelf
Venture.
One of the Navy’s 14 Armidale-class patrol boats, Maitland was
in the far north west waters of Australia on Christmas Eve to
conduct an aug-mented security patrol of various offshore oil and
gas platforms in the area.
Under the command of LCDR Gemma Mountney, Assail Two was
assigned to Joint Task Force 639, the military component of
Australia’s whole-of-government maritime border security
opera-tion, Operation Resolute.
Maitland and Assail Two were tasked with keeping a 24-hour vigil
while the rest of the country celebrated the festive season.
LCDR Mountney said despite the busy schedule there was still
plenty of time for Christmas cheer aboard.
“It was a good feeling to be in the area in the lead up to
Christmas with plenty of infor-mation sharing and some friendly
banter between the crew and the oil and gas platforms” she
said.
“We celebrated the fol-
lowing day with a traditional Christmas lunch, a Secret Santa
and we even had an unexpected visit from Santa Claus, though
strangely I couldn’t find my lead-ing coxswain at the time,” she
added.
Patrols of the North West Shelf area play a key role in Navy’s
effort to augment the security of the oil and gas plat-forms which
is of vital strategic and economic importance to Australia as a
maritime nation.
“The patrol has been success-ful in terms of testing
communi-cations, procedures and protocols between Defence and
Customs and Border Protection assets, as well as the privately
operated oil and gas installations,” LCDR Mountney said.
Navy conducts patrols as part of Operation Resolute, in
addi-tion to responding to a range of maritime security threats
includ-ing prohibited imports and exports, illegal fishing,
pollution, piracy, maritime terrorism, quar-antine risks and
irregular mari-time arrivals.
The operation covers an area roughly 10 per cent of the world’s
surface and includes Australia’s exclusive economic zone which
extends up to 200nm around the mainland and offshore
territories.
No rest for border patrols
ON THE ALERT: HMAS Maitland with Assail Two embarked patrols the
Australian North West Shelf.
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07NEWS February 14, 2013
Michael Brooke
ONE hundred old salts enjoyed a sentimental journey down memo-ry
lane when they attended a sun-set reception on HMAS Sydney to mark
the ship’s 30th anniversary.
The reception at Fleet Base East on January 29 gave Sydney’s
commissioning crew the oppor-tunity to reminisce about life in the
Navy and to catch up with old friends.
They swapped memories about the two years they lived in the US
while Sydney was being built, learning the ship’s hi-tech systems
that were a leap in capa-bility for Navy.
CO Sydney CMDR Karl Brinckmann said many of his young officers
and sailors gained an insight into the challenges of mastering new
defence technolo-gies from talking with the veter-ans.
“The reception was a won-derful opportunity for young and old
sailors to swap stories and to learn from each other,” CMDR
Brinckmann said.
Sydney’s commissioning CO,
CDRE Pau l Kab le (retd), said he was extremely proud of the
commissioning crew for its achievements working up Sydney and
resolving technical issues that he said had contributed to her long
service.
“This ship design was not supposed to last for 30 years, so all
I can say is that my crew did a wonderful job,” he said.
“I am as proud of my commissioning crew as much as I am in awe
of the cur-rent ship’s company, who operate much more sophisticated
technol-ogies following the FFG upgrade program.”
CDRE Kable said the crew of the next Sydney would face great-er
challenges learning the com-plexities of new game-changing
technologies.
“Each new Sydney marks a significant technological advance-ment
over the previous one and when the Aegis-equipped Sydney V enters
service, she will spearhead
ALL SMILES: HMAS Sydney’s youngest female member SMNCSO Kaytlyn
Fay, CO CMDR Karl Brinckmann and Sydney’s youngest male crewman
ABBM Nathan Adsett cut Sydney’s 30th birthday cake. Inset,
commissioning CO CDRE Paul Kable (retd) and CMDR Brinckmann at the
reception. Photos: Michael Brooke
Long service celebrated
a leap in the Navy’s air warfare capability,” he said.
CDRE Kable said like many of the commissioning crew he had
Sydney in his blood.
“Sydney is a family ship for me because I also served in Sydney
III in the Vietnam War, as did my father way back in the Korean
War,” he said.
“It was a great honour to skip-per Sydney because of her famous
name and the new capabilities she brought to the Navy back in the
early 1980s.”
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New MinisterTHE new Defence Materiel Minister, Mike Kelly, said
during his swearing in on February 4, he would bring a personal
imperative to the role. The former colonel, who served 20 years in
the Army before entering parliament in 2007, said his appointment
was a great honour.“I am intensely aware of how important this job
is, having seen first-hand during my military career what can
happen if you don’t get it right,” Dr Kelly said. “You’ve got a
soldier out there depending on their equipment for his or her
survival. There can’t be any greater responsibility for a minister
to remind themselves every day that, at the end of the chain,
somebody’s life is at stake.” Dr Kelly replaced Jason Clare, who
has moved to the roles of Cabinet Secretary and Minister for Home
Affairs and Justice.
Sale of Sea KingsNAVY’S remaining Sea Kings will be sold to
Aerospace Logistics (ASL). Former Defence Materiel Minister Jason
Clare has advised that ASL would use the Sea King inventory to
sustain and support capability of international military and search
and rescue fleets. “Aerospace Logistics have more than 30 years
experience as an international specialist in the supply,
refurbishment, exchange, maintenance, repair and overhaul of
aircraft parts,” Mr Clare said. The Sea Kings were withdrawn from
service in December 2011 and are being replaced by MRH-90
helicopters under Project Air 9000 Phase 6. The contract is subject
to International Traffic in Arms Regulations approval.
ADF vehicles up for grabsUP TO 12,000 non-combat ADF vehicles
and trail-ers will be sold from March in the biggest disposal of
military equipment since World War II. The vehicles include Land
Rovers, Mack trucks, Unimogs, motorbikes, all-terrain vehicles and
trailers, which are being replaced under Project Land 121. The
vehicles will be sold by contrac-tor Australian National Disposals
in Australian and overseas markets. Individuals and organi-sations
can register their interest with the Defence Disposals Agency at
www.defence.gov.au/dda or email [email protected]
ReunionA 25-YEAR reunion of TS Walrus personnel will be held on
April 13 at the Royal Hotel, George Street, Beenleigh with a
sausage sizzle scheduled for April 14 at Ramu Street from 10am.
Tickets are $40 subject to numbers. For more information contact
Tracey Hagan at [email protected] or Carmel Hiscock at
[email protected]
CorrectionON THE front page of the Navy News of January 31,
decommissioned ships HMAS Betano, Balikpapan and Wewak were
described as “long-serving patrol boats”. They should have been
described as “long-serving LCHs”.
Michael Brooke
THE 50-year relationship between North Sydney and Navy’s lead
mine warfare and clearance diving base, HMAS Waterhen, was
celebrated when more than 200 members of the ship’s company
exercised their right to march through the city.
The Freedom of Entry march through the North Sydney CBD was
conducted on December 6 to mark Waterhen’s 50th anniversary.
CO Waterhen CMDR David Jones led the march which was reviewed by
CN VADM Ray Griggs.
In accordance with tradition, CPO William Robinson presented the
scroll to Police Commissioner Superintendent Allan Sicard for the
ship’s company of Waterhen to exercise its right of entry through
North Sydney.
CMDR Jones said the long-standing
relationship between North Sydney and Waterhen was a recurring
theme of the day with the crew enjoying a community barbecue after
the parade, where sailors mingled with local schoolchildren and
residents.
ABCIS Megan Diver said she enjoyed participating in such an
impor-tant community activity.
“The freedom of entry was fun and was the first for me since the
big one by Fleet in the Sydney CBD in 2009,” she said.
SMCCIS Ashley Young said the event was a proud moment for her
and her shipmates because “it allowed the local community to see
who we are”.
Waterhen was first commissioned in 1962 as the parent
establishment for Australia’s Mine Countermeasures Force, Clearance
Diving Team 1 and a variety of support craft.
IN BRIEF
THE National Archives of Australia has imposed a dis-posal
freeze on records relating to claims of abuse and related material
in Defence.
CN VADM Ray Griggs said sailors must familiarise themselves with
the scope of the freeze to prevent the accidental destruction of
material and records that may be needed to support Phase Two of the
Review of alle-gations of sexual and other abuse in Defence.
Records covered by the freeze must be protected and available
for future reference and accountability purposes, and to protect
the rights and entitlements of individuals, including claimants,
alleged perpetrators or others involved in handling matters.
The disposal freeze will remain in place indefinitely until
lifted by the National Archives of Australia.
VADM Griggs has directed all Navy personnel, including those at
sea and in bases ashore, to observe the disposal freeze on records
relating to claims of abuse in Defence.
He said all Navy personnel must exercise extreme caution in
concluding that a record is not relevant to the disposal freeze and
can therefore be lawfully destroyed.
Failure to comply with the terms of the freeze can result in a
person being found guilty of an offence under the Archives Act
1983.
The disposal freeze covers all records relating to allegations,
reporting, investigation and handling of sexual and other abuse in
Defence, including bullying.
This includes records that fall within the broad categories of
‘personnel’ (including unit medical and personnel records and
administrative documents relat-ing to relocations, leave and career
management) and ‘corporate’ (including Defence policy, guidance and
instructions on the management of staff).
The freeze applies to records in all formats, includ-ing but not
limited to:
Paper files Digital photographs Audio and visual recordings
Emails Documents created in Microsoft Office Hand-written notes
Records stored in Objective or on other shared group
or personal work spaces.
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50 years for Waterhen
HONOUR: The ship’s company of HMAS Waterhen salutes CDRE
Jonathan Mead during the Freedom of Entry through North Sydney.
Photo: LSIS Sarah Ebsworth
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10 NEWSFebruary 14, 2013
One noisy achiever
RECOGNISED: Doug Cato, of DSTO, proudly displays his 2012
Minister’s Award for Achievement in Defence Science. Photo: David
McClenaghan
CPL Nick Wiseman
MORE than 45 years of listening to the deep and helping
submariners identify what is out there has result-ed in the 2012
Minister’s Award for Achievement in Defence Science.
Doug Cato, of Defence Science and Technology Organisation
(DSTO), was presented with his award by Defence Science and
Personnel Minister Warren Snowdon for his extensive research
achievements in underwa-ter acoustics and communication by marine
mammals.
“Dr Cato’s achievements span the oceans,” Mr Snowdon said.
“They contribute to the efficient operation of our Navy and
safeguard the well-being of marine animals.”
Research conducted by Dr Cato has contributed to sonar and
submarine studies, allowing submariners to bet-ter identify what
they hear when sub-merged.
His main focus on marine acous-tics has been the ambient noise
of the ocean from both physical and biologi-cal sources.
Complementing this is more than 30 years of experience in marine
bio-acoustics, animal communication and
the impact of human-produced noise on marine animals.
Mr Snowdon said Navy’s acoustic disturbance strategies were
recognised as among the world’s best.
“They are based on Dr Cato’s thor-ough research and have been
accepted by NATO naval forces,” he said.
“His characterisation of ambient sea noise in the Australian
Indo-Pacific region known as ‘Cato Curves’ has been used to
determine sonar perfor-mance for more than 30 years and informed
the acquisition of the sonar suite for the AWD program.”
Dr Cato said it was great to work on something that is currently
used by Defence.
“Some people do science for the curiosity but for me the fact
that some-one will use what I do is great because they [Navy] do a
fantastic job and a very important one,” he said.
Not expecting the award, Dr Cato said it was a surprise and an
honour to be recognised.
“You get recognition from the fact Navy uses what I do and from
the international scientific community for published works,” he
said.
“But it was nice to get something like this on top of that.”
HOW TO BORROW A SUBMARINEIN the 1960s when Australia did not
have submarines and Doug Cato needed access to one to continue some
research, he discovered the Royal Navy was vis-iting town.
Realising there were some submarines around, this young, perhaps
naive, scientist contacted the subma-rine squadron com-mander and
asked him outright if he could bor-row one.
His little knowledge of the processes at the time possibly saved
him hours of administrative work with approval given to him for
half a day’s access to two subma-rines after an exercise in the
Coral Sea.
“Being quite young and new to the system maybe I didn’t know
what I was asking,” he said.
“Ten years later I would never have had the hide to do
that.”
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11NEWS February 14, 2013
OVER the past 12 months, there have been 125 occupational health
and safe-ty incidents involving contractors.
While Navy personnel abide by standard operating procedures and
are trained in every aspect of safety, con-tractors do not have the
same insight.
Therefore, a contractor, without the same background and level
of expe-rience, working in unfamiliar and unforgiving surroundings
brings an increased potential for danger.
LSMW Chr i s Newbury, o f Directorate of Navy Safety Systems,
said it was imperative sailors made every effort to ensure their
safety and the safety of others while they were working.
“While contractors have their own systems of work and
procedures, they do not inherently know to follow ours,” LSMW
Newbury said.
Under the Work Health and Safety Act, Navy has a responsibility
to ensure the safety of everyone who con-tributes in any way to the
operation of the organisation.
“This includes workers, contrac-tors, sub-contractors,
out-workers, cadets, trainees and volunteers,” LSMW Newbury
said.
The induction process is a vital component in ensuring the
safety of contractors and uniformed members alike, designed to
provide everyone with the necessary information to safe-ly conduct
their business.
“Induction training addresses health and safety matters and may
cover a range of topics including secu-rity, administration and
local support arrangements,” LSMW Newbury said.
“It must be specific to the work-place, identify hazards and
risks asso-ciated with the immediate work envi-ronment and detail
applicable safe work procedures and controls.
“These briefs are particularly important during maintenance
peri-ods, where the risk of personal injury or damage to plant and
equipment is often increased.”
While the causes are varied, inci-dents often represent a
breakdown in communication, poorly defined or con-fused
responsibilities, complacency and a disregard for safe work
proce-dures.
“We must appreciate the shipborne environment is often foreign
to con-tractors and ensure that they really understand and adhere
to Navy’s poli-cies, procedures and safe systems of work, LSMW
Newbury said.
“We may know where a pipe or cable-run goes, what is on the
other side of a bulkhead, or why RADHAZ and man-aloft procedures
are in place, but a contractor may not.
“Remember, safety is everyone’s responsibility, so make sure you
know your responsibilities when it comes to working with
contractors.
“If you see something that doesn’t look right, raise it
respectfully with the contractor, your supervisor or officer of the
day.
“If you are asked a question that you do not have the knowledge,
expe-rience or authority to answer, don’t try and bluff your way
through. Take the time to find the right answer and get the job
done safely.”
THE Australian Peacekeeping Memorial Project has been granted
deductible gift recipient status by the Australian Tax Office,
which means donations towards the construction of the memorial will
be tax deductible.
More than 66,000 Australians have served as peacekeepers in more
than 50 UN peace opera-tions and this year marks 65 years since
Australia’s contribution to the first UN peacekeeping mis-sion to
the Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia, in 1947.
For more information go to www.peacekeeping memorial.org.au
Memorial the winner
SBLT Katherine Mulheron
HMAS Cerberus has challenged its ship’s company and trainees to
be active in a Year of Participation.
Around 1800 staff and trainees gathered as XO Cerberus CMDR Mike
Oborn encouraged everyone regardless of age, rank or capability to
join a sports club or special interest group.
With more than 20 clubs on offer, club representatives were
given just 45 seconds to convince the crowd their club was the one
to join.
Competition was fierce and the referees ruthless when sticking
to time limits, not hesitating to give a sharp whistle blow to cut
speakers mid argument.
Choices varied from the traditional Australian rules, rugby and
hockey, through to open water swimming, the Navy Steam Club,
motorcycling and flying.
CMDR Oborn said there were no excuses.
“If you can’t find something to suit you, then you’re just not
trying,” he said.
“This isn’t about having an after-noon ‘sporty’, that’s not
what’s important at Cerberus.
“It’s about the positive interaction that makes better
sailors.
“For the trainees that means getting involved, being part of
something, and for the staff, it’s about leadership.
“It’s not about you the individual, but all of us as a
team.”
In spectacular fashion, a Mustang fighter aircraft from the
Peninsula Aero Club conducted a flypast to start the sign-ups for
the new Cerberus Flying Club.
Clubs vied for favour with poten-tial members.
WO Robert Bohm pressed his case for ‘old man’s marbles’, aka
lawn bowls, listing national competitions, comfortable uniforms and
camara-derie as some of the reasons to get involved.
Key points in all activities offered
included being competitive, social, challenging, serious or fun.
Not sur-prisingly, many of these are the same reasons sailors join
the Navy.
POMUSN Simon Potter was pleased to sign up 28 people to the
tennis club.
“It’s great to see everyone getting involved,” POMUSN Potter
said.
“It gets you out of the workplace to meet others on the
base.”
SWO Simon Habens signed up for lawn bowls and volunteered to
help other clubs short on numbers in sup-port positions.
“Everyone should participate,” he said.
“You don’t get this sort of oppor-tunity in the Fleet, so you
should grab it while you can.”
Cerberus, known as the ‘Cradle of the Navy’, is one of Defence’s
largest training establishments. With 1500-3000 people passing
through each year, it’s a challenge to engage with everyone.
Keep an eye out for contractors
SAFETY FIRST: While Navy personnel abide by SOPs and are trained
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Join the team
GET INVOLVED: ABCK Iain Marino checks out the lawn bowls stand
at HMAS Cerberus. Photo: LSIS Paul McCallum
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CENTRESPREAD12 13February 14, 2013
WORK AT SEAHMAS Anzac had a busy and productive six-month
deployment to the MEAO on
Operation Slipper.
LEUT Andrew Thorpe
ONE of HMAS Anzac’s primary missions on Op Slipper was the
conduct of boardings to assist in maritime security as well as
counter illegal smuggling operations and pre-vent piracy.
This also allowed Anzac to extend goodwill to local mariners
operating in the area.
Anzac’s boarding teams conducted two different types of
activities, flag verification boardings and assist visits.
During flag verification boardings, if a vessel was flying no
flag or more than one flag, the boarding team would embark to
determine its flag state.
Assist visits allowed the team to come alongside a vessel and
greet its crew and engage with them by asking
if they were having any problems or troubles and helping if
possible.
Both these activities allowed Anzac to engage with local
fisherman in order to gain important patterns-of-life information,
which ensures the sea lanes remain safe for these vessels to
operate in.
CO Anzac CMDR John Stravridis said the teams approached each
task with dedication and commitment.
“Throughout all of these tasks Anzac’s boarding teams have
conduct-ed themselves professionally and have represented Navy in
the highest order,” he said.
“This level of professionalism is a testament to the high
calibre of per-sonnel and the emphasis that Navy places on
individual and collective training.”
D URING the second half of last year, HMAS Anzac conducted
maritime security operations across the Combined Maritime Forces’
(CMF) area of operations.
Anzac was flexibly cross-tasked between US-led CMF Combined Task
Forces 150 (counter-terrorism), 151 (counter-piracy) and 152 (gulf
maritime security).
CMF conducts operations across
more than 2.5 million square miles of international waters to
defeat terrorism, prevent piracy, reduce the illegal traf-ficking
of people and drugs and promote a safe maritime environment for
mari-ners with legitimate business.
Anzac’s mission involved mari-time interdictions and
counter-piracy operations, including activities under the command
of the counter terrorism taskforce.
Team’s vital role acknowledged
High-flying successLEUT Sally Malone
HMAS Anzac’s deployment marked a significant milestone for her
Flight 1 crew.At the end of November, Anzac’s
Seahawk known as Sentinel flew her 5000th flying hour.
Flight Commander Flight 1 LCDR Stuart Withers said the
achievement was unique.
“Sentinel is only the third of the Seahawk fleet to achieve 5000
flying hours and the first to do so while deployed on operations,”
he said.
“I am particularly impressed with the dedication shown day in
day out by my maintenance team.”
Before Anzac made her way home, Sentinel had flown more than 223
hours over 81 sorties.
Sentinel was named by her senior maintainer, CPOATA Nigel
Porter, and means ‘guardian of borders’.
The Flight consisted of 16 personnel including 10 maintainers
and six aircrew.
Primary tasking for Sentinel included surface search for suspect
vessels, logistics support, personnel transfers to internation-al
ships and providing surveillance and protection for boarding
operations.
WELL OILED: AB Harry Rushton (left) does corrective maintenance
on the lube oil purifier while AB Christie Deane and AB William
Taylor (above) conduct running machinery rounds. The hard work and
dedication of the marine engineering department was integral to
Anzac’s success. Members worked tirelessly to keep the engineering
plant operational.
ALL HANDS: LCDR Anthony Burrows (inset top right) inspects the
fuel quality received from Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Wave Ruler
while members of HMAS Anzac’s crew watch a replenishment at sea.
While in the MEAO Anzac conducted replenishments every 5-7 days to
resupply fuel, stores and provisions.
WELCOME ARRIVALS: Above and right, bags of HMAS Anzac’s mail are
hoisted aboard the quarter deck by LS Ted Shortt during a mail
pick-up on a port visit to Djibouti from November 26-28. A total of
1.2 tonnes of mail was transferred out to the ship on arrival. It
was the first mail received since mid-October.
ON THE JOB: HMAS Anzac’s boarding
team approaches a dhow during boarding
operations in international waters in the MEAO.
Photos: SGT William Guthrie
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14 HISTORYFebruary 14, 2013
TH E W W I I a n d Ko r e a n War explo i t s of HMAS Warramunga
I have been well documented over the years but little is known of
her service in China.
In 1949, Warramunga was ordered to proceed up the Yangtze River
to Nanking with orders to stand by to res-cue Commonwealth
nationals should the Chinese civil war become more serious.
While crossing the China Seas from Sasebo in Japan, she received
an SOS signal from passenger ship Taiping at 1.45am on January 28,
1949.
Taiping, carrying around 1500 pas-sengers who were escaping the
com-munist advances in China, had col-lided with collier Kien Yuan
in thick fog near the Chou Shan Islands.
Warramunga arrived in the area three hours later finding only an
oil slick with her 20-inch searchlight.
Kien Yuan, with 2700 tons of coal on board, was hit amid ships
and sank in five minutes with 72 of her 74 crew going down with
her.
At 6.30am small objects, which were later found to be rafts and
wreck-age, were sighted two miles ahead.
Les Gibson, now 82, was a quarter-
master in Warramunga at the time and said the ship followed the
oil slick and flotsam until they found the rafts.
“One of our sailors in a boat saw a raft with eight or nine kids
on it, all frozen to death,” Mr Gibson said.
“We just had to leave them because it was more important to help
those still alive.”
By 7.15am, 35 survivors were on board. They were the only
survivors of almost 1600 passengers and crew from the two
ships.
Mr Gibson said one of the female survivors died not long after
being brought on board.
“She got a naval funeral,” he said.“We sewed her into a weighted
bag
and she went over the side.”The 31 males and four females
were distressed, covered in oil and suf-fering from exposure
after six hours adrift.
One survivor, Chiao Chung Chow, said a large Chinese passenger
ship that sailed periodically between Keelung and Shanghai had
slowed down before Warramunga arrived but then sailed off without
stopping.
Mr Chow later tracked down three of Warramunga’s crew and came
to Australia in 1996 to thank them per-sonally.
HMAS Warramunga I played a brief yet unique role in the Chinese
civil war, SGT Dave Morley reports.
Warramunga’s doctor attended to the survivors while crew members
fed them hot porridge.
For their actions, the crew were thanked in a letter from
Chinese authorities that read “... all the peo-ple of China are
greatly influenced by your righteous deed”.
After landing the survivors in Woosung, Warramunga steamed on to
Shanghai and secured to a buoy, a dangerous exercise in the
fast-flowing Yangtze River.
Local leave was granted while the CO liaised with Royal Navy and
Nationalist Chinese Navy officers
before the ship sailed to Nanking.Arriving on January 31,
official
buses took ratings on sightseeing tours of Nanking so the locals
could see men in ‘British’ uniform.
That night a sentry saw three peo-ple tampering with
Warramunga’s head ropes and fired over their heads, causing them to
run off.
After that, searchlights were trained on the mooring lines at
night.
One of Mr Gibson’s most vivid memories of Warramunga’s period at
Nanking was a bus trip to have lunch at the Canadian Embassy.
“We were near the railway station
and I saw a dead communist sympa-thiser, with his head resting
about 10 feet away,” he said.
“Then we saw another bloke hang-ing from a gibbet outside the
pictures – apparently he’d tried to rob the place.
“I remember counting the bodies floating down the river from the
fight-ing between the Nationalists and the Communists.”
HMS Hart relieved Warramunga on February 15.
Warramunga returned to her duties with the British Commonwealth
Occupation Force in Japan before returning to Sydney in April
1949.
Wreckage and rescuesAT SEA: HMAS Warramunga I, a Tribal-class
destroyer which saw significant service in both WWII and the Korean
War, was also involved in rescues in the China Seas after the war.
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SERVICE WITH A SMILE: ABSTD Ashley Baker, of HMAS Watson,
displays the hors d’oeuvres provided for the 25th Anniversary
Cocktail Party for STS Young Endeavour in Darling Harbour, Sydney.
The cocktail party was held for 200 guests on January 25. Photo:
LSIS Paul McCallum
ON THE JOB: ABBM Liam Cooney, of HMAS Choules, conducts drills
in a work boat alongside Fleet Base East at Garden Island. Photo:
ABIS Chantell Bianchi
FOOD FOR A CAUSE: LSMT Benn Bramich, LSMT Daniel Green, SBLT
Mathew Grainey and ABET Ci-Anna Smith on board HMAS Sydney for the
Tasmanian bushfire appeal sausage sizzle at Fleet Base East,
Sydney. Photo: ABIS Nicolas Gonzalez
PROUD DUTY: SMN Amelia Greene, of HMAS Cerberus, prepares to
raise the Australian flag at a ceremony outside the Melbourne Town
Hall before the Australia Day parade.Photo: ABIS Nicolas
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16 PERSONNELFebruary 14, 2013
Bree Winchester
DEFENCE’s own social network, the Defence Alumni Network, has
played a critical role in help-ing a submariner return to the job
of his dreams.
CPOAWA SM Mike Bell had been out of the Navy for five years and
was working as an IT contractor to Defence when he registered for
the DAN in 2011 and began reconnecting with old mates and
colleagues.
The DAN’s advanced search function meant CPOAWA SM Bell had
instant access to many of the people he had served with across his
22-year Navy career.
According to CPOAWA SM Bell, it was these connections and
word-of-mouth on the network that led to him finding a suitable
position on full-time service in the Navy.
“The DAN is a real success story for Defence,” CPOAWA SM Bell
said.
“It’s fantastic for networking. I registered and just started
con-necting with friends big time. I started saying gidday to
people I’d served with.
“It’s like a Facebook for Navy.”
He said the comprehensive re-entry documentation he found in the
jobs section of the DAN also helped him return to the Navy.
CPOAWA SM Bell is work-
ing at Submarine Headquarters in WA in Sub Force Element. His
daily duties involve helping the ADF take a proactive approach to
submarine safety.
“I knew since I was a kid that I wanted to join the Defence
Force and work in submarines and when I left, I missed it every
single day,” CPOAWA SM Bell said.
“It was the mateship, the pro-fessionalism and the camaraderie
of the ADF that I missed and that was a big hook for me coming back
in.
“The Navy has changed since I left five years ago – there are
new faces and new ideas – and it’s been an interesting journey but
one I’m definitely enjoying.”
CPOAWA SM Bell said he couldn’t stress enough how important it
was for current and past ADF personnel to register for the DAN,
especially if they were looking for a role back in uniform in
either a full-time or reserve capacity.
“Reconnecting with people you’ve served with is really spe-cial.
There’s no faster or easier way to do that than by getting onto the
DAN,” he said.
The DAN is open to current and former members of the ADF. All
you need are your basic service details for verification and you’re
in. Visit www.dan.gov.au
Reuniting with mates
I’M BACK: CPOAWA SM Mike Bell rejoined the Navy after a
five-year sabbatical after reconnecting with mates on the DAN.
Photo: LSIS Nina Fogliani
NEW research into ADF mem-bers’ work-related experiences and
opinions has been launched by Defence.
The Directorate of Strategic People Research launched the new
Defence people survey on February 8 and it will remain open to
invitees until February 24.
Those chosen to participate will receive an email via their DRN
account.
Named YourSay, this research allows members to share their
opinions about working for Defence.
Participation will ensure the views and those of your workmates
are collectively used by Defence leadership to make decisions about
Defence people.
YourSay will happen four times a year and at each time, at least
10 per cent of the Defence workforce will be randomly selected to
par-ticipate.
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17PERSONNEL February 14, 2013
ADF member contributions for housing will increase from March 14
due to annual adjust-ments to the Group Rent Scheme.
Service Condi t ions and Housing Policy assistant director Bruce
Jackson said it was a long-standing policy that Defence sub-sidised
50 per cent of the overall national cost of housing for ADF members
and their families.
“During the past year there has been varying rates of increase
in the national rental market, with the greatest increases being
5.54 per cent in Rent Band 1. The lowest increase was 1 per cent in
Rent Band 4,” Mr Jackson said.
In recognition of the lower standards provided,
contributions
for members occupying Group 1A and Group A residences will
remain the lowest and will be adjusted by the underlying mar-ket
rent increase at the Rent Band 1 rate of 5.54 per cent.
There is only a small number of residences in these groups and
they are being upgraded to meet the improved standards intro-duced
in 2007, or they will be transitioned out of service.
This upgrading or disposal will be completed by the end of
2017.
For more information, follow the links on
intranet.defence.gov.au/pac/ or www.defence.gov.au/dpe/pac
Rents get adjusted
RENT RISE: Increases in member contributions for service housing
will bring all ranks into line with Defence’s policy of 50 per cent
rent subsidy.
Fortnightly contributions from March 14Housing
classification Rank group Current
3 bedroomRate per fortnight
New3 bedroomRate per fortnight
Rent band Group
- 1A LCDR or lower $329.44 $347.68
- A LS or lower $376.22 $397.05
1 B1 SBLT or lower $451.94 $476.96
2 B2 LEUT, WO, CPO $558.17 $583.97
3 C CMDR, LCDR $611.85 $629.01
4 D CDRE, CAPT $795.74 $803.70
5 E RADM and above $1203.66 $1264.19
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for reservists and their managers. This functionality is expected
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As a replacement for the process of filling out attendance diary
forms, having them approved and then being keyed into the system by
payroll oper-ators, personnel will now be able to submit their own
attendance and some allowance claims for approval directly into the
PSS Attendance Management module. A member’s manager will then be
notified by email to approve the claim on PSS.
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19FEATURES February 14, 2013
ABCIS Richard Mousaco couldn’t help but smile when he embraced
family mem-bers and surveyed his father’s childhood family home in
Dili, Timor-Leste.
One of the last Australians to leave Timor-Leste, ABCIS Mousaco
said it was surreal to be deployed on the mul-tinational mission to
a country where he has an active family history and where the
majority of his family still lives.
“I never thought I would be deployed to a place where I have so
much family history and where my grandmother’s house was literally
just around the corner from where I was based,” ABCIS Mousaco
said.
“Australia is my home, I am proud to serve in the Navy, but you
can’t for-get your heritage and I think you can’t see where you are
going if you don’t know where you came from.
“So when the opportunity to deploy to Timor arose, I jumped at
it because there are not too many people who get the chance to
serve on operations in their family’s own country.”
In a one-hour break from opera-tions, ABCIS Mousaco cut a
beam-ing smile as he embraced his great aunt, two uncles and a
number of other
direct relatives who live in the fam-ily home bordering the
hillside of the dusty and humid Timor-Leste capital.
He could not help but laugh as an endless stream of young
cous-ins jostled for the best position for a photo with the uncle
dressed in the Australian camouflage uniform that is held in high
regard in the fledgling nation.
“It was surreal checking out where my father grew up. I had only
been there once when I was about seven in 1992 and from what I can
remember it’s changed a lot,” he said.
“My mum and dad’s family were Timorese business owners; they
were blacklisted and ended up in Portugal following the Indonesian
take over in the 1970s.
“Mum’s fami ly were heav-ily involved in sandalwood and Dad’s
family were coffee growers. They had been assisting the resistance
so were forced out.”
Seeing his family in their home country and looking to the
future was important to him.
“It’s good to see that like the rest of Timor my family is
continuing to rebuild this house and are positive about what the
future will bring,” ABCIS Mousaco said.
An able seaman had a special family reunion while on Operation
Astute, LEUT Peter Croce reports.
Smiles and hugs all round
The sailor said he thoroughly enjoyed the experience of his
first operational tour where he served as the Australian
commander’s driver before
returning to Australia in late January. “It has been fantastic
and something I will truly never forget,” he said. “It’s a great
feeling to deploy and get a medal
from Timor Leste for doing a job that is helping out another
country. In my case, this is a lot more personal and gives me great
satisfaction.”
ALL TOGETHER: (L-R) Vino Mousaco, Marley Mousaco, ABCIS Richard
Mousaco and Jose Mousaco at the family’s home in Dili, Timor-Leste.
Photo: ABIS Lee-Anne Mack
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20 FEATURESFebruary 14, 2013
While researching his family’s wartime service, Bob Windsor
discovered it was not as rare as first thought, Sharon Palmer
reports.
One family’s commitment
WHILE stories about sib-lings serving in defence forces often
appear in media, rarely these days is it more than two or three
brothers or sisters. However, large families of 10, 12, and even 15
children were not uncommon in the early 1900s.
In researching his family history, Bob Windsor, of the UK,
discovered a Guinness World Record on the wall of one of his
uncle’s houses, which showed that not only had Bob’s father,
Albert, served in WWII but also eight of his brothers. Amazingly,
all nine survived.
George and Martha Windsor had 13 sons and three daughters.
George, Charles and Albert fought in WWI where Charles was killed
in action.
George and 10th child Alfred could not enlist for WWII as they
were involved in vital munitions production.
Bob said he soon discovered
the record wasn’t as rare as he first thought.
While he was researching, he happened upon the story of Ron
Drummond and his eight brothers who also all fought in WWII and
sur-vived, which appeared in Navy News in November 2005.
“After I found the record at my uncle Wally’s house and learnt
the extent of my father and his brother’s involvement, we got a
fair bit of pub-licity,” he said.
“I knew my father and uncle served in the war, but I had no idea
of the others.”
He discovered how Albert – 41 when he enlisted – signed up at
the same time as Jim, 37, Harry, 35, Bill, 33, Arthur, 31, Tom, 30,
Dick, 27, Sid, 23 and Wally, 18.
Albert and three brothers served in the Army, four served in the
RAF and Dick served in the Royal Navy.
“A spokesman from the Guinness
Book of Records was interviewed on television shortly after and
said there were in fact a further two families that shared this
record,” Bob said.
“He said a family named Lewtas from Liverpool and a family named
Drummond from London were the other record holders.”
Bob discovered the youngest Drummond, Ron, had served in both
the Royal Navy and the RAN after he immigrated to Australia after
the war.
“Your article told a similar story to that of my family and I
thought it would be great if I were able to some-how get in touch
with Ron or someone from his family,” he said.
Ron Drummond’s story can be found at
www.defence.gov.au/news/navynews/editions/4821
Bob lives with his wife Meg in the village of Six Mile Bottom in
Cambridgeshire and can be contacted at [email protected]
PROUD HISTORY: Bob Windsor holds the Guinness World Record
certificate his family shares for the most siblings to serve in
WWII. Top L-R: Albert, Jim, Harry, Bill, Arthur, Tom, Dick, Sid and
Wally Windsor. Right, the Navy News article from 2005.
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21FINANCE February 14, 2013
Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Greg
Medcraft weighs up the benefits of insurance for mobile
devices.
If you have a suggested topic for this column, email ASIC at
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It’s easy to get caught up in the hype and rush out to buy the
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There are two ways you can insure your portable electronic
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If you already have contents insurance for your home it can be
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