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In this issue we showcase HMNZ Ships Te Mana and Aotearoa during Exercise Bersama Lima in Malaysia. We've got lots of people profiles, medics, hydrographers, recruiters and lawyers, and we showcase an apprentice carver's efforts to create a new 'gateway' for our trainees entering the Navy to begin their training.
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.
Read about the Defence Policy Review and what it means for the Royal New Zealand Navy. Catch up with personnel helping with drug seizures in the Indian Ocean, and showcase our divers and hydrographers exercising in Australia. We talk to our personnel trying out the mobile weapons simulator at Devonport, and meet a high school college student who has joined the Naval Reserves.
Read about the beginning of HMNZS Te Mana’s five-month-long deployment, a Commander’s US Naval War College journey, our Logistics teams supporting a recent visit to Samoa, our newest reservists and so much more.
Read about HMNZS Taupo partnering with the Samoan Maritime Police to patrol Samoa's Exclusive Economic Zone, while a training team from the Maritime Training Group work onshore with the police and fire service to practise boarding techniques and first aid. Also, check out No. 6 Squadron practising mountain flying in Coromandel, our latest graduation photos, reunions in Auckland and Dunedin, and meet a man who wants to see his naval sword passed on to a worthy officer.
In June's Navy Today see our sailors looking their best in London during the King's Coronation. Learn how to do one (of many) Officer of the Watch manoeuvres - we hope you're good at maths! We meet members of our latest capability, the Deployable Boarding Team out of HMNZS Matataua, and catch up with one of our marine engineers on exchange with Royal Navy ship HMS Spey.
The May edition of Navy Today is here! Go behind the scenes as we put our amphibious capability to the test in Fiji, see how we remembered our fallen on Anzac Day, find out how students got the experience of a lifetime at Devonport Naval Base and more.
In the April edition of Navy Today see all the different taskings for a scientific mission to the sub-Antarctic, meet the new Commanding Officer of HMNZS Te Kaha and Ruby Tui comes on base for International Women's Day. Don’t miss the photo essay of the rigours of officer training and found out why Navy personnel had to chase up their World War 2 medals.
The March edition of Navy Today now out and Cyclone Gabrielle occupies our pages. Follow the missions of HMNZ Ships and Units Manawanui, Canterbury, Matataua and Te Mana for Operation Awhina as they provide aid and people-power to Gisborne, the East Coast and Hawke's Bay. We also feature Manawanui's drug interception and follow Canterbury's mission to Raoul Island.
Welcome to the first Navy Today edition of the year. This issue covers our assistance during the Auckland flooding, our return to Waitangi commemorations, and we welcome two new Commanding Officer for HMNZS Te Mana and No. 6 Squadron. Check out our testing of a mini gun (3,000 rounds a minute) at Whangaparāoa Peninsula and we go back twenty years this month to feature HMNZS Te Kaha on a war footing in the Gulf of Oman for Operation Enduring Freedom.