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Exercise Baghlan, based at Languard Bluff, involved infantry, logisticians, signallers, gunners and engineers. It provided a setting for select personnel to learn how to command a rifle platoon as part of a platoon commanders’ course. Whanganui, April 2023.

 

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Explosive and lethal Exercise Alpha Crusader saw soldiers from 2nd/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment out in the landscapes of Tekapo recently.

 

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2nd/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment , Tekapo, New Zealand, June 2023

 

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Exercise Nemesis puts officer cadets to the test as one of the hardest training exercises they will face during the New Zealand Commissioning Course.
The exercise unfolds within the unforgiving Waiouru training area where the cadets push past their perceived physical and mental limits for five days. Carrying packs weighing 30-40kg, they endure tasks day and night, with only brief periods of sleep and minimal sustenance.

 

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Exercise Tebaga Gap tests New Zealand Commissioning Course Officer Cadets as platoon commanders and leaders while living in the field. Set in the Waiouru Military Training Area, this exercise serves as their introduction to open-country offensive operations. Here, they take charge of larger groups, commanding up to 30 personnel in intense ambush and attack scenarios.

 

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NZSAS MFF (Military Freefall) Training, South Island, New Zealand circa 2006. “Mu” was the Tp Staff Sgt and Tandem Master (unblurred) with French CASA and RNZAF PHI with French aircrew

 

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NZSAS MFF (Military Freefall) Training, South Island, New Zealand circa 2006. “Mu” was the Tp Staff Sgt and Tandem Master (unblurred) with French CASA and RNZAF PHI with French aircrew
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Mu’s now the Sergeant Major of the Army(SMA)

 

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LAV’s in Australia during Ex Talisman Sabre 2023

 

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LAV’s in Australia during Ex Talisman Sabre 2023
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Heading home from the largest-ever iteration of Exercise Talisman Sabre, which ran in Queensland from late July to early August and involved around 30,000 military personnel from 13 countries.
During the exercise, New Zealand 150-strong combat team, mounted in NZ Light Armoured Vehicles formed a battlegroup with soldiers from Fiji, Australia, France, and the United States. The combat team used its speed and firepower to clear and destroy enemy defensive positions and seize objectives, to allow the wider battlegroup freedom to take further action.

 

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Commando Squadron

 

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2nd Engineer Regiment recently took to the tussock and conducted Exercise Arras in Waiouru to test Junior Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) and practice young Officers and Senior NCO’s in combat engineer tasks.

Soldiers completed battle handling lessons which included search, assault boating, water point, explosive breaching, bridging and construction tasks.
The testing phase incorporated support from Infantry reconnaissance and surveillance, an Infantry Platoon from 1RNZIR a Sniper Detachment and Explosive Ordinance Disposal. This provided a platform for integrated training and offered an environment of realism in executing a range of combat and general support engineer tasks.
Exercise Arras culminated with an assault on the urban container village utilising explosive method of entry followed by an advance along Tarn track with multiple breaches and obstacle destruction prior to a final assault on an enemy position.

 

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As part of skills regeneration, officers and soldiers from 3/6 Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, spent three days focusing and honing their close country infantry skills.
Exercise El-Alamein is the second of three close country exercises conducted this year by 3/6 Battalion in the build-up to next year’s Reserve Force Concentration Exercise.

 

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ANZAC class frigate HMNZS Te Mana (F111) and Polar-class Logistics Support ship HMNZS Aotearoa (A11) alongside in the Saigon River, Vietnam, 25 Sept 2023

 

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New Zealand and Fijian personnel in the Nausori Highlands of Viti Levu during Exercise Cartwheel 23.

 

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For the first time, New Zealand's Army newest capability has been released into the wild in the Waiouru Military Training Area.

The Armoured Bushmaster 5.5 Vehicle equips our soldiers with high-level ballistic protection and advanced off-road capabilities - perfect for combat missions and the austere environments our troops have to operate in.

 

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6 June 2013. Cadets from the New Zealand Army Officer Cadet School (OCS) on Exercise Tebaga Gap at Waiouru.

 

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BAC Strikemasters of No. 14 Squadron RNZAF, 1989.

 

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2/1 Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment on Exercise Black Bayonet, October 2023
The scenario-based exercise threw 200 of New Zealand soldiers into tactical stability and security phases set in a fictional island nation.

 

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2/1 Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment on Exercise Black Bayonet, October 2023