Moving from Regular Force to Reserve Force has allowed Combat Driver Corporal Cindy Ries-Rupapera to retrain towards a full-time career in the construction industry.

Few sporting events push the human body like an ironman triathlon. But digging deep is something all too familiar for New Zealand Army medic and ironman athlete Private Caroline Paulsen, from Whakatāne.

Ōtaki-born sailor Sean Byers-Cook joined the Royal New Zealand Navy to expand her horizons. Over the last two years she has crossed many of those horizons.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s fleet of C-130J-30 Hercules has continued to expand with the arrival of the second and third aircraft to RNZAF Base Auckland.

The current Colours of 2nd/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (RNZIR) were presented in March 1980. Made of silk, after more than 44 years of general wear and tear they are now at the end of life.

The new King’s and Regimental Colours will be presented at Burnham Military Camp on 31 October.

New Zealand and Samoan teams have today removed a second shipping container from the reef off Samoa’s Upolu, one of three that came off the sunken Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui on 6 October.

Two men running the length of New Zealand, twice, for charity, were in need of help themselves when they were caught in freezing conditions on an exposed ridge on the Tararua Ranges north of Wellington.

The training, exercising, and operational tempo has been as high as ever for the Air Force this year, covering a wide range of domestic and international activities, from Antarctica to the Pacific, to Asia and beyond.