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This edition showcases the Navy's first-ever high-speed tactical boat, the Littoral Manoeuvre Craft. HMNZ Ships Te Mana and Aotearoa visit Vietnam. We meet warfare officers learning their trade aboard HMNZS Taupo, and learn about a reserve unit becoming the subject matter experts for small arms training around Aotearoa New Zealand.
In this issue, we profile the Deployable Boarding Team supporting our UK cousins in HMS Tamar, ensuring waters around Fiji are free from illegal fishing. We meet an IT specialist who's returned to the Navy to develop his skills in Information Warfare, while our newest trainees come to grips with the long hours of the Basic Level of Capability phase on Whangaparaoa Peninsula. HMNZS Canterbury helps out the Solomon Islands election and we celebrate a Navy veteran's 100th birthday.
Read about what Plan Anzac means as we move towards a much closer relationship with our Australian neighbours. Dive into our latest exercises, Anzac day coverage from throughout the world, and our part in the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.
In this issue read about how New Zealanders commemorated Anzac Day throughout the world, our soldiers are put to the test on the Combat Driver Junior Course, how the Army is revitalising its skills, and what some of our individual soldiers enjoy most about what they do.
Find out there’s more to our divers than going underwater, as they get to grips with a variety of explosives. We catch up with the upcoming missions for HMNZS Canterbury, HMNZS Aotearoa and HMNZS Te Kaha as they progress towards deployments in South East Asia. What makes a good officer? We meet the staff who bring out the best in our young men and women during their 22-week training. We catch up with 100-year-old war veteran Jack Monaghan, meet Assistant Defence Attache LTCDR Tuijo Thompson in Singapore, and bring you the latest Navy rugby action.
In this issue we meet our Sailor of the Year, talk to the new Commanding Officer of HMNZS Aotearoa and showcase members of his crew. CDR Yvonne Gray talks about empowering women at a Pacific Island conference, our hospitality personnel show their skills at Government House and a mother shares her pride in her son's journey through basic training.
In our July edition we showcase the regeneration of frigate HMNZS Te Kaha as it builds up for its 2025 overseas deployments. HMNZS Matataua works with NZ Customs to intercept a drugs shipment attached to a ship's hull, while HMNZS Manawanui helps clear explosive remnants of war from a harbour in Vanuatu. HMNZS Taupo works with MPI to inspect fishing vessels in the South Islands and a team from HMNZS Ngapona travel to Ireland to help them kick-start their Inshore Patrol Vessels (purchased from New Zealand).