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Adding value in Canada
A three-year deployment to Ontario, Canada for Navy couple Chelsea Dixon and Rhys Williamson had its challenges, but it was worth every moment.
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Hercules retirement flight
As the sun sets on the 60-year-long career of our Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules fleet, No 40. Squadron will farewell the workhorse of the skies with a flypast over Northland on the 29th January 2025.
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Top shooter right on the mark as he gets his Army career underway
Reserve Force soldier Private Luke Hartnell is more than used to lugging his rifle and gear through dense New Zealand bush, tracking wildlife as a hired hunter.
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NZ Soldier defied doctors’ grim predictions following machine gun wounds, will compete at Invictus Games
Nearly 24 years ago New Zealand Army Warrant Officer Class One (WO1) Ed Dore-Wright was preparing to deploy to East Timor for a second time when he was involved in a live-fire training accident which went horribly wrong.
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NZDF celebrates successful launch of a second satellite payload
A second New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) payload, hosted on a United States research satellite, has been successfully launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket.
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Basketball coach finds personal growth in the Reserve Force
Marlee Pene has found coaching young basketball players is not too different to learning soldiering skills in the New Zealand Army Reserve Force.
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Sailor returns to Canada for Invictus Games five years on from life-threatening experience
Close to five years ago while deployed to Canada on HMNZS Te Kaha, Leading Logistics Supply Specialist (LLSS) Tyler-Marie Gray unexpectedly found herself spending seven weeks in hospital fighting for her life.
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Reserve Force training pushes new Blenheim soldier
For his 20th birthday, Blenheim’s Dylan Guillemot found himself well out of his comfort zone, sleeping outside and doing 20 push-ups on his big day.
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HMNZS Aotearoa departs on resupply mission to Antarctica
HMNZS Aotearoa, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s maritime sustainment vessel, is sailing to Antarctica to deliver food, supplies and engineering equipment for New Zealand and United States bases on the ice.
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Camp Quality children enjoy ‘view from the top’
Around 60 children living with cancer have begun the year by seeing the world from the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s perspective, on flights on C-130H Hercules aircraft at Base Auckland on Monday.