Defence Update Newsletter

New Zealand Defence Update provides information about defence policy and people, and the activities of our forces throughout the world, to a wide audience in New Zealand and overseas. It is published monthly. We welcome your feedback.

If you would like to receive a printed copy of the Defence Update Newsletter, please contact the Editor: Judith Martin, Defence Public Relations Unit, tel 64 4 4960227.

The Defence Public Relations Unit produces individual publications for New Zealand’s Navy, Army and Air Force. 

The main features from NZ Defence Update can now be found under Feature Stories at What's New.

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• Defence Update Newsletter 2005

Issues

• Issue 38
• Report into bullying, violence allegations
  
• Kiwi troops leave for a White Christmas
  
• Silver Warrior – a battalion goes through its paces
  
• From private to Director General: Brigadier Anne Campbell
  
• Profile - Phil Goff
  
• Solomon Islands
  
• New Defence personnel graduate
  
• All Corners of the World
  
• Issue 37
• Navy challenge a hit with students
  
• Pacific patrols and soldier injured
  
• Memorial in Korea
  
• New Defence Minister
  
• Orion rescue
  
• Military funeral
  
• Trafalgar celebrated
  
• CDF – New Zealanders can be proud
  
• Ordnance destroyed
  
• Exercise Silver Warrior
  
• In Brief
  
• Issue 36
• Afghanistan
  
• In Brief
  
• Military observers
  
• Skyhawks, Aermacchis sold
  
• Kiwi sailors and airmen begin multinational exercise
  
• HMNZS Te Kaha remembers the fallen in Singapore
  
• Army driver training "of a high standard"
  
• Issue 35
• Home from Iraq
  
• Working with Fiji
  
• CDF, COMJFNZ visit troops
  
• Significant progress in gender integration
  
• Women in combat
  
• Sinai soldiers – Kiwis in the Middle East
  
• Navy
  
• Army Engineers Construct checkpoint in Afghanistan
  
• Territorial chair appointed
  
• Issue 34
• In Brief
  
• Troops depart for Afghanistan
  
• Vladivostok visit a Navy first
  
• Artillery skills for officer cadets
  
• Keeping vital systems going
  
• Keeping the peace in Jalalabad
  
• 5 Squadron - New Zealand’s eyes in the sky
  
• Issue 33
• Into Sudan, out of Mozambique, Sierra Leone
  
• First in class
  
• Bougainville swears in autonomous regional government
  
• A helping hand for Niue
  
• Queen’s birthday honours
  
• Diplomatic duties
  
• VJ Day
  
• Multiple missions for 5 Squadron
  
• Navy innovation
  
• The President of Pakistan
  
• NZ SAS deploy
  
• In Brief
  
• Issue 32
• A satisfying experience
  
• Drug research welcomed by NZDF
  
• Cambodia-helping rebuild a nation
  
• Navy lifeboat accident findings
  
• Sailors remember lost comrades
  
• Defence funding package announced
  
• The Gallipoli commemoration
  
• VE Day
  
• Visits, patrols and humanitarian aid
  
• In Brief
  
• Issue 31
• ANZAC Day - We will remember them
  
• New helicopters for Air Force
  
• Toxic recovery
  
• NAVY deploys to Asia
  
• Training Peacemakers
  
• Hearts and minds
  
• Nato visit
  
• Army driver training
  
• Sappers help out
  
• Patrol craft to Auckland
  
• In the family
  
• Canterbury scholarship
  
• In Brief
  
• Issue 30
• After the tsunami – the NZDF contribution
  
• UN conduit in Afghanistan
  
• Gallipoli anniversary
  
• In Brief
  
• Canterbury to be farewelled
  
• RNZAF crewman receives bravery award
  
• Australian, New Zealand ships, aircraft exercise
  
• Nimrod visits NZ