The official newspaper of the Royal Australian NavyVolume 56, No. 13, July 18, 2013

SERVING AUSTRALIA WITH PRIDE

NEWSNAVY

NEW LIFE808SQN recommissions

after more than 50 years

READY FOR SERVICE: 723SQN

conduct a fly past to coincide with the

official commissioning ceremony of 808SQN

at HMAS Albatross.Photo: ABIS Sarah Williams

NAIDOC Week celebrations PAGES 4-5

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“The relationships you make in the Navy are like no other. You go through so much together and you have to look out for each other.” – RCT David Catterall, 21

“I’m looking forward to finishing my trade with the Navy and working with the most up-to-date electrical equipment. I get to do that while travelling the world too.” – RCT Ryan Walton, 17

“Being a marine technician in the Navy is an important job. It’s an honour to have a great career and feel like you’re serving your country with pride.” – RCT Brandon Love, 17

“I’m looking forward to meeting new people, learning new skills, travelling and always doing something physically and mentally challenging.” – RCT Saxon Bartlett, 19

SBLT Katherine Mulheron

SEVENTY-seven recruits from Rankin Division General Entry intake 312 (GE312) made Australian Naval history when they marched onto the Recruit School parade ground on June 28.

GE312 was the last Rankin Division to graduate from Recruit School at HMAS Cerberus.

About 400 proud family members and friends gathered to watch as some of Navy’s newest sailors made their first career transition from recruit to seaman.

DCN RADM Michael van Balen was the reviewing officer for the parade and warmly congratulated the graduates.

“This will be a day that the

men and women of GE312 Rankin Division will always remember,” he said.

“You have reached the first mile-stone of your naval career.

“The RAN has provided more than 100 years of loyal service to this coun-try and today you become a part of that history. You stop being a recruit and you become a sailor.”

Rankin Division was established more than 50 years ago in honour of LCDR Robert William Rankin for courage displayed against the enemy.

LCDR Rankin went down with his ship, the sloop HMAS Yarra II, on March 4, 1942, during a battle with a Japanese squadron of three cruisers and two destroyers.

He and his crew were lost in that final engagement.

Rankin Division will be succeeded by Taylor Division in honour of LS Ron Taylor, who served under LCDR Rankin on board Yarra during its final conflict.

LS Taylor ignored the order to abandon ship, choosing to stay at his gun alone and still firing until he was killed shortly before the ship went down.

In September last year, CN VADM Ray Griggs announced that Recruit School Divisions Waller, Rankin, Getting and Moran would be renamed in honour of sailors, rather than offic-ers, who were lost in the service of their country.

LCDR Rankin’s legacy will live on in a new form as a Division at the RAN College at HMAS Creswell.

Last of a kindLAST MARCH: The graduating recruits from the last Rankin Division march onto the parade ground for their graduation ceremony. Photos: LSIS Paul McCallum

Michael Brooke

AUSCDT-1 has carried out Navy’s last task for the decommissioned landing platform amphibious (LPA) ships in preparation for their final journey to the US.

Divers used heavy slings to secure the propeller blades on the decommissioned LPAs at Sydney’s Black Wattle Bay on June 26, only a week before the ships started a two-month journey by tow to the US for disposal.

The task marked a small milestone for the divers, who were honoured to gift-wrap the ex-HMA Ships Kanimbla and Manoora for the recycler in the US.

Dive task supervisor ABCD Kaine Duncan said the divers were chuffed to have Navy’s last involvement with the ships.

“It’s a real honour for us because of what these ships have done and what they mean to many sailors in the Fleet,” he said.

“The LPAs enabled Navy to develop an important capability and perform vital disaster relief opera-tions that you can’t put a dollar value on in terms of diplomacy and regional engagement.”

A team of 14 divers employed cutting-edge equipment to position four giant slings around the props to prevent them from turning while the LPAs are in transit.

The task was spearheaded by ABCD Dan Pace, ABCD Nathan Brooks and ABCD Ben Keith, who secured the 45-tonne lifting strops to each of the four propeller blades.

The dive task was conducted in about nine metres of water and proved to be especially challenging

due to the murky water and heavy rain that reduced visibility to less than three metres.

The divers were praised for their work by CO AUSCDT-1 LCDR Sean Logan.

He also praised the efforts of AB Duncan in supervising the complex task, having recently been approved to supervise diving despite not yet wearing the rank of leading seaman.

Once the ships arrive in the US they will be recycled in a manner in keeping with the environmental standards expected by the Common-wealth.

The platforms were purchased by Navy in 1994.

After 15 years of service in national and coalition operations, the LPAs were withdrawn from service and formally decommissioned with ceremonies in 2011.

HMA Ships Tobruk and Choules continue to provide Navy’s core am-phibious capability together with ADV Ocean Shield, until NUSHIP Canberra is commissioned next year.

Divers complete final tasking

READY: ABCD Kaine Duncan, inset, conducts supervisor checks on ABCD Nathan Brooks’ diving apparatus before he takes to the water, main. Photo: ABIS Jesse Rhynard

HOORAY: Graduating recruits celebrate their passing out by throwing their caps in the air.

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LEUT Andrew Herring

NAVY’S newest squadron – 808SQN – was commissioned into the Fleet Air Arm on July 11 in a traditional naval ceremony at HMAS Albatross.

The ceremony also marked the formal induction into the ADF air-craft fleet of the MRH-90 Taipan multirole helicopter, which will be operated by both Navy and Army.

CDF GEN David Hurley, CN VADM Ray Griggs, COMAUSFLT RADM Tim Barrett, COMFAA CDRE Vince Di Pietro and CO 808SQN CMDR Charlie Stephenson attended the event, along with cur-rent and former 808SQN personnel and their families.

This significant milestone is the culmination of three years of train-ing, testing, development and trials to bring this new generation, high-

tech aircraft into service and prepare squadron personnel to operate it.

Navy will use the aircraft for the maritime support role previously carried out by the retired Sea Kings, while Army will replace its Black Hawks as a battlefield and special operations support helicopter.

“Bringing a technologically advanced aircraft into service is no simple task but 808SQN person-nel have worked tirelessly, together with the Army and DMO, to reach this milestone and I commend them,” RADM Barrett said.

808SQN originated as a Royal Navy squadron and was last com-missioned into the RAN during the 1950s when it operated fighter air-craft from aircraft carriers HMA Ships Sydney and Melbourne.

The re-commissioned 808SQN inherits its predecessor’s crest, bat-tle honours and motto “Strength in unity”, along with its legacy of

operational excellence, courage under fire and of breaking new ground in naval aviation.

Several nations are introduc-ing this aircraft – known interna-tionally as the NH-90 troop trans-port helicopter, but 808SQN has recently been recognised as leading the world in the capability being achieved operating it at sea.

“808SQN is continuing its pre-decessor’s legacy of excellence, and I’m pleased and proud to see them commissioned into the Fleet,” RADM Barrett said.

808SQN will be based at Albatross and its aircraft will oper-ate from Navy’s amphibious and afloat support ships HMA Ships Success, Tobruk and Choules.

In the future, these aircraft will also operate from Navy’s new 27,000-tonne LHDs, NUSHIP Canberra and Adelaide.

LEUT Andrew Herring

WHEN XO 808SQN LCDR Dom Cooper, pictured left, drew his ceremo-nial sword and took his place as Parade Commander for the commissioning of Navy’s newest squadron, he carried on a family tradition dating back more than a century.

The sword he held is a family heir-loom first wielded by his great grandfa-ther, CAPT Earnest Betts, who joined the Royal Navy in 1898.

It was later used by LCDR Cooper’s great uncle, LCDR Michael Betts, who was an observer in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.

LCDR Betts initially flew the Fairey Swordfish biplane and then ended his career flying the Douglas Skyraider airborne early warning aircraft in the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet with 849SQN in the 1950s – during the same decade in which 808SQN last operated as a RAN squadron.

LCDR Cooper said that based on the sword’s family history, its King’s Crown markings and the age of the firm that made it, he believes it to be about 110 years old.

808SQN given another life

THE first of 24 MH-60R Seahawk Romeo helicopters successfully completed its first test flight at Sikorsky’s Production Facility in the US on June 26.

It passed a range of tests includ-ing controllability, engine perfor-mance, vibration analysis and navi-gation as well as the ‘Contractor Flight Acceptance’ phase.

Defence Materiel Minister Mike Kelly said the Federal Government had invested more than $3 billion in acquiring the Romeos.

“The US Navy and its industry partners have worked hard to accel-erate the Romeo acquisition pro-gram and this first flight occurred only two years after contract sig-nature, some six months ahead of the original schedule approved by Government in 2011,” he said.

The acquisition allows Navy to provide at least eight helicop-ters embarked at any one time with

Long tradition continues as sword drawn

CELEBRATIONS BEGIN: CO 808SQN CMDR Charlie Stephenson reads out the commissioning order (far left) and joins Commissioning Lady Brenda Kable and youngest member of 808SQN SMNATA Jack Taylor in cutting the commissioning cake (middle). Left, 816 and 723SQN conduct a fly past at the commissioning of 808SQN at HMAS Albatross.

READY TO COMMISSION: 808SQN members parade in front of MRH-90 Taipans during the commissioning at

HMAS Albatross. Photos: ABIS Sarah Williams

Australia’s Anzac-class frigates and the new Hobart-class air war-fare destroyers, with the remain-der based at HMAS Albatross in Nowra.

Commander Fleet Air Arm CDRE Vince Di Pietro said the flight was exciting news.

“Navy will very shortly be fly-ing the most capable anti-subma-

rine and anti-surface helicopter in the world and it will be a quantum increase to our current helicopter force – both in numbers and capa-bility,” CDRE Di Pietro said.

The first helicopter is now being prepared for transit to Lockheed Martin’s facility in Owego, New York, where it will be fitted with its mission systems and sensors.

First Romeo goes for a test run in US

UP AND AWAY: The first RAN Romeo takes to the air. Photo courtesy of Woodstock Studio Photography Services

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From the town of Katherine, SmN David Ah-one changed course on the Defence Indigenous Development Program (DIDP) with the Army reserves and joined the Navy in January as a boatswains mate.

“As part of the DIDP I did a lot of training with the Army reserves including two weeks of Navy boot camp at HmAS Cerberus before I came to recruit School. It really helped me prepare for life in the Defence Force,” SmN Ah-one said.

SmN Ah-one said his goal was to be the best he could be and help others along the way.

“I love it (the Navy) mostly for the people you serve with. You get to know them and what they’ve been

through and they know you and what you’ve been through,” he said.

“There are many different personalities. The Navy can be really exciting.”

The DIDP is a result of the Defence reconciliation Action Plan 2010-2014, which aims to change perceptions of indigenous cultural issues, creates specialised recruitment pathways and establishes strong support networks and systems to retain existing indigenous ADF and APS members.

The DIDP is a seven-month residential course, giving young indigenous people from remote and regional communities education, training, life skills and confidence to gain skills for employment opportunities.

LSIS Helen Frank

A SAILor who served in the Colonial Forces in the early 1860s could have been the first indigenous Australian to serve in the armed forces.

As military personnel gathered at the Australian War memorial during NAIDoC Week on July 10 to celebrate the service of indige-nous Australians, CDF GEN David Hurley said while indigenous ser-vice was thought to date back to the turn of the 19th century and the Boer War, it could date back even further than that.

“I am told the Australian War memorial now has reliable evi-dence that a sailor who served in the Colonial Forces in the 1860s was in fact of indigenous descent,” he said.

The service, held annually dur-ing NAIDoC Week, recognises the contribution of indigenous service-men and women to Australia’s histo-ry and traditions and their continued service today.

The theme of NAIDoC Week this year was “We value the vision” and in his address at the ceremony, GEN Hurley said the ADF had always val-ued the contribution of all its mem-bers, including its indigenous ones.

“We value the foresight, strength and determination of the Yolngu people who instigated constitu-tional change with the Yirrkala Bark Petitions just as we value the determination and courage of those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who have chosen to serve

our nation,” GEN Hurley said. He acknowledged that the strictly European recruitment policy of the time had not stopped indigenous people from choosing to join.

“It is not clear why Aboriginal people chose to fight for a king and country that did not recognise them as citizens, but whatever the motiva-tion, once enlisted, each was accept-ed as an Australian soldier, regard-less of the colour of their skin,” GEN Hurley said.

“In uniform, indigenous members were afforded the same pay and con-ditions as their peers, but more impor-tantly, they were equals – respected for their skill and treated with dignity. These are the same virtues we strive to uphold in the ADF today.

“The modern ADF must reflect its history and value the vision of those who saw their indigenous comrades not for the colour of their skin, but for their courage, endur-ance, mateship and sacrifice.

“Today, Australian service-men and women are deployed on operations around the world; in Afghanistan, on peacekeeping oper-ations throughout the middle East and North Africa, and on maritime and border protection tasks closer to home. Among the ranks are our indigenous colleagues, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their fel-low countrymen as they have always done.”

Dur ing the ceremony the Aboriginal and Torres Strai t Islander flags flew from the masts at the Australian War memorial and at Defence establishments across

Australia and for the first time inter-nationally at Al minhad Air Base.

“It is our salute to the service and sacrifice of our military fore-bears,” GEN Hurley said.

“ D u r i n g NA I D o C We e k , we remember all Australians lost in conflict, particularly those of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. We thank them for their service and welcome the contribu-tion of those indigenous Australians who continue their legacy.”

South African-born ABmUS Haylen Newman, who usually plays the euphonium, opened the ceremo-ny on the didgeridoo, which he said he had been playing for 12 years.

“It’s nice to be able to contribute to this ceremony in my own way,” he said.

“The acknowledgement of indigenous Defence people from Australia and other nations is great to see,” he said.

AB Newman said he learnt to play the didgeridoo in 2000 after meeting some elders through a friend.

“I grew up in Australia away from my own culture and became passionate about learning the Australian culture,” he said.

“I then became very curious about the didgeridoo and its cultural significance.

“I originally learnt it for my own enjoyment but I played the didg-eridoo with the Navy band in 2009 for a marching display and I will be doing a recording in August with the band for the IFr.”

Thomas Bungalene of the Kurnai is thought to be the first australian indigenous sailor.

he was the son of Bunjil-ee-nee of the Brabralung group of the Kurnai of Gippsland.

he was kidnapped from his tribe with his father in 1847 by the Police and taken to melbourne.

Thomas outlived his family. his father died at the Narre Narre War-ren Native Police barracks and his mother died three years later in 1851.

he and his younger brother harry were then placed with a melbourne schoolteacher. harry died in 1856 when Thomas was 11.

Thomas was bonded into service on her majesty’s colonial steam sloop Victoria in 1861 and under the watchful eye of CmDR Norman he was taught the duties of a seaman.

on board the ship he was noted for his habits of industry and sobriety but he was an unhappy man. he

Proud history

Program fosters careers

THE FIRST TO SERVE

PROUD MOMENT: Then-RCT David ah-one at his Recruit school graduation ceremony. Photo: LSIS Paul McCallum

TOGETHER: aBmL-s mark Navales in the cenotaph guard at the

NaIDoC Week indigenous memorial ceremony at the australian War

memorial in Canberra.Photo: LSIS Helen Frank

served from 1861 until 1864 when he was sent to train as a draftsman.

Thomas died at the age of 18 in January 1865 and is buried with his brother in a melbourne cemetery.

Information provided by the Australian War Memorial.

POSSIBLE: This photo is said to depict Thomas Bungalene, front centre, pouring rum into a tot barrel on board hmCss Victoria. Photo: State Library of Australia

SOUNDING OUT: aBmUs haylen Newman plays the didgeridoo

at the NaIDoC Week indigenous

memorial ceremony held

at the australian War memorial in

Canberra.Photo: LSIS Helen Frank

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Raised for the first timeTHE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were raised at Al Minhad Air Base for the first time in support of the indigenous ser-vicemen and women deployed to Operation Slipper.

The flag raising ceremony was held on July 8 to mark the begin-ning of NAIDOC Week.

Acting commander JTF 633 AIRCDRE Tony Needham said celebrating NAIDOC Week in the MEAO was a significant and important milestone.

“This will be the first time that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags have been flown

on active operations outside Australia,” he said.

“It is important that we rec-ognise the service of indigenous personnel and I feel privileged to be part of this event.”

SGT John Angel-Hands, a clerk with FSU with origins in a country NSW tribe called the Parjong (fish river people) and the Lachlan River (red earth people), said it was a proud moment for him.

“I’m proud to serve my coun-try as a soldier and proud to be serving as an indigenous soldier, like those who have served in the past,” he said.

Dallas McMaugh

AB KRISTy Brown, of HMAS Albatross, was a guest speaker at the launch of Shoalhaven City Council’s NAIDOC celebrations this week.

NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

NAIDOC is celebrated not only in indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life.

An indigenous woman from the Wreck Bay Community, AB Brown spoke movingly about some of the chal-lenges indigenous youth face, particu-larly the difficulties involved in moving away from a small tight-knit commu-nity and finding their way in the larger world.

“Since joinging the Navy, I’ve trav-elled to dangerous and exotic places and some I didn’t even know existed. I’ve learnt to work hard and believe in myself and be strong and independent,” she said.

“In my four years in the Navy I’ve been on an amazing journey.”

AB Brown stressed the importance of strategies and programs such as Defence’s indigenous pre-recruitment course saying the support offered by the program was invaluable.

“The staff really understood what it was like for me to leave my home and family and provided me the level of care

Speaking about an amazing journey

and encouragement I needed to fulfil my dreams,” she said.

She also spoke about her work with the students of Jervis Bay Primary School. A former student, AB Brown vis-its the school regularly to mentor the children.

“I want to encourage them to dream big,” she said.

“I want them to know that there’s a world out there waiting for them and that anything is possible.”

SHARING EXPERIENCES: AB Kristy Brown speaks at the NAIDOC Week launch at the Shoalhaven Council Administration Centre. Photo: LSIS Yuri Ramsey

RECOGNITION: The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags fly alongside

the Australian, UAE and HQJTF 633 flags at Al

Minhad Air Base.celebrated

START OF CELEBRATIONS: ABBM Zac Pitt prepares to hoist the Torres Strait Islander flag at HMAS Stirling to signify the start of NAIDOC Week. Photo: LSIS James Whittle

GET READY: LSCIS Daniel Conlin, of AUSCDT-4, prepares to hoist the Aboriginal flag during the colours ceremony at the start of NAIDOC Week.Photo: LSIS James Whittle

FLYING TALL: The Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags fly at the NAIDOC Week indigenous memorial ceremony in Canberra. Photo: LSIS Helen Frank

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SGT Dave Morley

A FORMER Royal Military College (RMC) gradu-ate who left Duntroon as a Royal Australian Corp Transport lieutenant in 1976 recently returned to Duntroon to be commissioned as the new Anglican Bishop of the ADF.

Bishop Ian Lambert received the appointment at the Anzac Memorial Chapel of St Paul on July 5, after two decades in the Army and two with the Anglican Church.

He said he was excited about the appointment.“I can see, with 20/20 hindsight, how God has been

moving in and through my life and I can see how this is the right time and the right appointment for me,” he said.

“I trust I can serve the Defence community well.”Bishop Lambert said while he came into the job with

enthusiasm, he also came in with a lack of knowledge.“Things have changed so much since I left the

Army,” he said. “I understand the culture but not the mechanisms within, so I’ve got a fairly steep learning curve there.

“I did Exercise Long Look with the British Army of the Rhine. But I think the highlight of my career was the posting to Puckapunyal. I became a Christian there and had the pleasure of integrating my faith with my life and my work.”

Bishop Lambert said he became an authorised lay minister at Puckapunyal.

“We ran a youth group ministry there for all the teen-age kids,” he said. “We called it TOPS – Teenagers of Pucka – and worked on the basis these kids had nothing.

“We provided them with entertainment and fun and shared the gospel with them.”

Bishop Lambert said he was putting together a visits schedule to all the bases and chaplains around Australia.

As the new chief minister and pastor within the

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Defence community, his role is to guard the faith, pro-mote unity, discipline and the mission of the church in all Defence units and communities, at home and overseas.

Bishop Lambert was previously the regional bishop for the South Coast, Southern Monaro and Snowy as well as being rector of the Anglican parish of Batemans Bay.

NEW JOB: Bishop Ian Lambert is commissioned as the Anglican Bishop to the ADF. Photo: LSIS Helen Frank

Michael Brooke

PAST and present sailors who have served in warships bearing the name Sydney marked the 100th anniversary of HMAS Sydney I, which wrote the first chapter in the legend of Anzac by sinking the German raider SMS Emden in WWI.

More than 100 current and former Navy personnel gathered at the Mosman RSL on June 26 to mark the centenary of the commission-ing of the light-cruiser Sydney I in Portsmouth, England.

The commemoration service was attended by Navy personnel who had served in Sydney III during the Korean and Vietnam wars, and Sydney IV, which is embedded with the US Navy Seventh Fleet.

Special guests included Director Navy Continuous Improvement CAPT Luke Charles-Jones who represented the Commander Australian Fleet, RADM Tim Barrett, and John Glossop, the son of the Commissioning CO Sydney I, CAPT John Glossop.

CAPT Charles-Jones said Sydney was the most famous name in the Navy, because of the achievements and sacrifices of the four genera-tions of people who have crewed the four name-sake ships in WWI, WWII, the cold war, and recent peace support operations.

CAPT Charles-Jones, who commanded Sydney IV during 2011-12, said there would always “be an HMAS Sydney” in the RAN, with the Hobart-class DDG Sydney V to be commis-sioned into service in the next few years.

The event included a presentation by Mr Glossop about Sydney I’s victory over the German raider Emden in 1914, which generated a lot of national pride early in WWI.

HMAS Sydney Association president John Byrne said a major feature of the event was the presence of so many current and ex-Navy per-sonnel who had served in a ship named Sydney.

“They all share with us the beginning and continuation of the ‘line’ of HMA Ships named Sydney that have served the RAN and Australia with great distinction throughout the past 100 years and will into the future,” he said.

The event concluded with the announcement that the HMAS Sydney Association had secured a NSW Government Grant of $100,000 to assist with the cost of the total refurbishment of the Sydney I mast at Bradley’s Head.

A century of Sydneys

FITTING TRIBUTE: Navy personnel spell out “Sydney 1913-2013” on the flight deck (above) of HMAS Sydney IV to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the commissioning of Sydney I.

CAKE TIME: LSCIS Roger Dalby and CO HMAS Sydney CMDR Karl Brinckmann slice a cake as part of the celebrations (left). Photos: LS Peter Thompson

REMEMBERING: Former CO HMAS Sydney IV CAPT Luke Charles-Jones (right) addresses the memorial service at Mosman RSL Club in Sydney. Photo: ABIS Nicolas Gonzalez

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JUST one day short of serving four years in the Navy, ABATV Justin Macey, of 723SQN, was award-ed Apprentice of the Year for the Illawarra/South East NSW region.

Before joining the Navy AB Macey worked in a variety of jobs from selling menswear and driving trucks to owning his own coffee shop.

“I joined the Navy at a mature age of 34 and can now say I’ve experienced life on both sides,” he said.

AB Macey was nominated for Apprentice of the Year by Training Authority-Aviation after he suc-cessfully completed his competen-cy log 13 months ahead of sched-ule and to a high standard.

“From the start of my training at RAAF Base Wagga, I found the more often I used my competency log, the easier it became,” he said.

“When I arrived at HMAS Albatross, getting the training briefs and being reminded that it was my own responsibility to com-plete it within the required time frame, I again committed myself to maintain a daily review of my log.

“I soon realised that the most difficult part of our competency log was making the time to write the entries. With my experience and dedication to that already having been tried and tested, I just contin-ued to maintain a consistent work

ethic and the entries continued to accumulate. Before I knew it, I was well and truly on my way to com-pleting the log.”

The I l lawarra Vocat ional Training Committee interviewed AB Macey and he was selected for a certificate of excellence as the highest performing apprentice in the Certificate IV in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering category.

He was also shortlisted for the overall Apprentice of the Year award.

“I was quite surprised and very humbled at the shortlisting as I never considered an award existed let alone that I’d be nominated,” he said.

AB Macey was up against a strong field from a variety of trades including hairdressing, electricity supply and also Australian repre-sentatives in the World Workskills Games.

He had also done some reading up on the previous year’s winner and concluded that he was unlikely to win.

“It wasn’t until at the presenta-tion dinner that comments were made that the winner would prob-ably have to make a speech,” he said.

“That got me thinking ‘What if I did win and then didn’t know what to say?’ So from that moment on, I tried to maintain involvement in table conversation and at the same time I was working out who to thank if by chance I won.”

By the time the presentation started AB Macey said he was a stressed and a quivering mess.

“I was saying things to myself like ‘Yes, how good would it be, no I can’t get up there, please don’t say my name, it’s okay the other finalists deserve it more than me’ but I thought it would be nice to win,” he said.

“When they said my name, I nearly died!”

In his unrehearsed acceptance speech, AB Macey paid trib-ute to Navy for the training he had received, the mentoring of CPOATA Russ McIntosh and the support of his wife and children, noting that in four years he had spent 28 months away from them.

Air engineering officer 723SQN LCDR Ian Napthali said it was exceptionally pleasing to see AB Macey rewarded in this way.

“He has been one of my highest performing maintainers at 723 and to see this recognised by an exter-nal organisation is great,” LCDR Napthali said.

“Hopefully he will go on to win the NSW and national awards dem-onstrating the high level of skill and commitment of Navy main-tainers.”

AB Macey is now a final-ist for the NSW State Apprentice of the Year Award, which will be announced in September. If suc-cessful, he will go on to represent NSW in the national awards in Perth in November.

Apprentice scoops awardTOP RECOGNITION: Winner of the Illawarra/Southern Region Apprentice of the Year ABATV Justin Macey conducts maintenance on a Squirrel.Photo: ABIS Sarah Williams

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THE bravery and heroism of the sailors who crewed the “Chook” was recalled when HMAS Waterhen com-memorated the 72nd anniversary of the loss of the first Navy warship sunk in combat in WWII.

The sinking of Waterhen I in June 1941 was marked by personnel as well as two dozen members of the Scrap Iron Flotilla Association and the Rats of Tobruk Association in a ceremony on June 28.

Participants reflected on the loss of the destroyer, which as a member of the Scrap Iron Flotilla, kept the besieged soldiers at Tobruk resupplied.

CO Waterhen CMDR David Jones said Waterhen’s final battle against Nazi dive-bombers spoke volumes about the courage and values of the brave sailors who served in the Chook and the Scrap Iron Flotilla.

“Australia and our Navy owe an enormous amount to the men of the first Waterhen, the Scrap Iron Flotilla and indeed the veterans of all our past conflicts,” he said.

“They personify the values of Honour, Honesty, Courage, Integrity and Loyalty that are our Navy’s values today.”

CMDR Jones said the fighting

spirit of the men who once proudly served in her was alive and well in the men and women who serve at Waterhen.

In recognition of this link, CMDR Jones presented this year’s John Hammond Award to LSMT Brett Bishop, of FSU, for his outstanding service attitude and the promo-tion of Navy signature behaviours while serv-ing at Waterhen.

The award was implemented to com-memorate the courage of John Hammond, an ex-Waterhen sailor who gave his life on Anzac Day 1999 while defend-ing a robbery victim.

The clear lower deck also provided an oppor-tunity to present other sailors with medals and certificates.

WOET Roderick Robertson was presented with a clock to mark his retirement discharge from the Navy after 40 years of service, to add to the Federation Star he received last year from CN VADM Ray Griggs.

SBLT Adrian Cooper received his Commission Certificate, while LSBM Robert O’Grady and ABCSOMW Matthew O’Brien received the Operational Service Medal and clasp. Australian Defence Medals were pre-sented to ABBM Benjamin Donhardt and ABCSOMW Januario Callos.

Wave of energy to hit Stirling

Waterhen recalls devotion to duty

LEUT Grant McDuling

HMAS Sydney joined forces with the United States Navy (USN) and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) to participate in a tri-lateral exercise, Pacific Bond from June 22-26.

C O S y d n ey C M D R K a r l Brinckmann said Pacific Bond was a multinational naval exercise designed to advance participating nations’ military-to-military coor-dination and capacity to plan and execute tactical operations in an advanced warfare environment.

“Pacific Bond is about conduct-ing quality multinational mari-time warfare manoeuvres, with this year’s exercise having a heavy focus on anti-submarine warfare,” CMDR Brinckmann said.

“One of the consistent high-lights of the Pacific Bond series of

HMAS Sydney joins forces for exercise

exercises is the exchange of person-nel between navies, and this year was no exception with personnel exchanges between Sydney, JS Murasame and USS Preble.

“It doesn’t get much better than operating with modern warships

from two extremely professional navies.”

Pacific Bond events include anti-submarine warfare exercises, anti-air warfare exercises, helicopter vis-its, a board, search and seizure exer-cise and liaison officer exchanges.

WORKING TOGETHER: HMAS Sydney, USS Preble, USS Chung-Hoon and JS Murasame manoeuvre in close formation for a photographic exercise at the completion of Exercise Pacific Bond. Photo: LS Peter Thompson

TIME TO REMEMBER: Members of HMAS Waterhen, the Scrap Iron Flotilla Association and the Rats of Tobruk Association attend the commemoration service for the 72nd anniversary of the sinking of Waterhen. Photo: ABIS Nicolas Gonzalez

AWARD WINNER: LSMT Brett Bishop displays the John Hammond Memorial Award he received with John Hammond’s daughter, Brodie.

LEUT Samantha Dudley

THE onshore site for the Perth Wave Energy Project, located at Garden Island, HMAS Stirling, was offi-cially handed over from Defence to Carnegie Wave Energy Limited on June 14.

Carnegie has been working with Defence since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2008.

In July last year Carnegie signed power supply and grid connec-tion agreements with Defence and Western Power respectively for elec-trical power from the project to be supplied exclusively to Stirling.

The project will be the first grid-connection wave energy project to use Carnegie’s CETO wave energy technology to produce power and fresh water and will also be the first commercial scale wave power unit deployed in Australia.

Carnegie Project Development Manager Tim Sawyer said CETO, named after a Greek sea goddess,

offered the potential to revolutionise power and water production globally.

“It will involve the installation and operation of submerged CETO units attached to the sea floor,” he said.

“These are connected to two small diameter pipelines, laid on the sea-bed, that run back to a shore-based power and water generation facility located on Garden Island.

“CETO harnesses the enormous renewable energy or our ocean’s waves and converts it into two of the most valuable commodities underpin-ning the sustainable growth of the planet; zero-emission electricity and zero-emission desalinated water.”

Unlike other wave energy systems under development around the world, the CETO wave power converter is the first unit to be fully-submerged and to produce high pressure water from the power of waves.

Completion of the construc-tion phase is anticipated to occur in September with commissioning of the project forecasted for the first quarter of 2014.

WAVE ENERGY: A computer generated image

of a CETO unit as it will appear off Garden Island.

Image courtesy of Carnegie Energy

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A STEAM crane originally used in the construction of Flinders Naval Depot, now HMAS Cerberus in 1912, has final-ly made its way home after 67 years.

The Priestman Steam Crane was advertised on eBay by the widow of Albury steam enthusiast Tod Watson.

Steam enthusiast WO Ian Waller, of Cerberus’ Engineering Faculty, said there were three other people interested in buying the crane.

“However, when they heard the Navy Steam Club wanted it they all withdrew their interest in order to allow the club to negotiate the purchase uncontested,” he said.

“They saw it as rather fortuitous the crane had an opportunity to return to its place of origin.”

WO Waller said the crane was used on a steel tramway of Irish Gauge (5’3”), which ran along the wharf and assisted in the building of the depot that was commissioned in 1921.

“The crane was sold by the Commonwealth Disposal Commission by auction on August 28, 1946,” he said.

“It was bought by Feiglin Timber

Merchants and used in their yard in Nunawading, Victoria, to load timber.

“It was later sold sometime in the mid-1980s to Tod Watson, who dis-played it at his machinery yard in Echuca, Victoria, and later at Albury from the early-2000s.

“The steam fraternity has been abuzz with news that the crane had returned to Cerberus.”

WO Waller said the Navy Steam Club planned to restore the crane to working order for the RAN Heritage Collection and the Museum of Cerberus.

“While the gearing has little or no wear, the restoration will still be a big job but the members of the club are enthusiastic and cannot wait to get on with the task,” he said.

“The boiler is in remarkable condi-tion for its age and the engine internals are like new.

“The original engineering logbook for the crane was found in the archives at the Museum of Cerberus along with many photographs.”

He said the Navy Steam Club, along with many other sporting and special interest clubs, formed a backbone of positive extra-curricular activities for trainees at Cerberus.

THE las t offic ia l holder of the Esther Wil l iams Trophy, AUSCDT-4, handed Esther to HMAS Stuart on June 24 for her final sea voyage.

In a fi t t ing ceremony that took Esther back to the water, she was swum to shore, where CO AUSCDT-4 LCDR Barry Purkiss passed the trophy to CO Stuart CMDR Jason Hunter for her final journey.

The trophy will sail from Fleet Base West to Fleet Base East where it will be presented to the Navy Heritage Centre at Spectacle Island.

With the passing of Esther Williams on June 6, the trophy will be laid to rest as a mark of respect to the lady who gave it life.

Esther became part of naval tra-dition during WWII when a photo of the star became a sought after memento for wardrooms in Navy ships from Australia, the UK, Canada and the US.

Since then Esther has been an honoured guest in many a wardroom and the subject of numerous ill-writ-ten and entertaining prose for more than seven decades.

The image inspired many daring raids in the name of fun, and was a tradition that continued through-out the wardrooms of the Royal Australian Fleet.

CMDR Shane Moore learnt a lot about the Esther Williams Trophy when he was Director of the RAN’s Heritage Centre.

“One of the most dar ing raids occurred on board HMAS Warramunga I when she was along-

side in Japan during the Korean War,” CMDR Moore said.

“A team of four officers from the USS Boxer dressed in black and used deception tactics at Warramunga’s gangway to distract the OOD. They then shimmied up the bow hawser to gain access to the ship over the forecastle in an attempt to rescue Esther.”

The team were discovered in the passageway outside the wardroom and the “defence” of Esther com-menced.

This “defence” resulted in three US and one RAN officer being hos-pitalised. The “rescuers” were even-tually detained and given haircuts and a cell for the night – the fate of all those rescuers who are caught in accordance with the rules of Esther.

“Needless to say, more modern rescue attempts were less violent,” CMDR Moore said.

In 1946, HMS Jamaica res-cued Esther from USS Albany and an unknown officer with a bent for Shakespeare wrote the ship’s “Esther rescued” signal in poetry. This tradi-tion was carried on and one of the more recent entries was based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.

The trophy was last acquired dur-ing a raid as daring as any through-out its remarkable history when AUSCDT-4 rescued Esther from HMAS Newcastle on the eve of her deployment to the MEAO.

Despite a number of attempts to relocate the trophy one more time, AUSCDT-4 proved to be the final and impenetrable fortress for the tro-phy before its decommissioning.

Once upon a squadron cheery where I waited, looking blearyWithin a land-locked wardroom by the south-east coastal shoreThere I pondered whilst observing many pilots, quite unnervingAnd the TACCOs – just disturbing, with the FLYCO by the doorA flock of grounded birdies, an unmiti-gated boreI sat and brooded, wanting moreThen the knights of inner city, showed true courage, grit and pityTake me with you, as I saw them did I verily imploreThe flight, it was exciting, my new home, it looked invitingOn a vessel built for fighting, following greatness gone beforeSafe at sea aboard a frigate with many spaces to exploreAshore will I be nevermoreIn Newcastle I sail proudly, twin gas turbines burning loudlyHer officers and sailors show unrivalled esprit de corpsFor this warship, it is nicer, from the COC to RICEROur captain, he is wiser like the mari-ners of yoreSail away to active service and adven-tures, I assureNow I sail off to warEsther Williams sendsFinal entryI was the mermaid of the Australian NavyThe desire of all who go to seaWhose praise I loudly chantThrough the water I did glideMy face charmed all alongsideAnd I travelled across many chartsBut now the sun has ceased to shineYour attentions I must now declineAnd seek the seclusion the heritage centre grantsFor the final timeEsther Williams sends

Bon voyage to our Esther

LAST SIGNALS

Crane makes its way back home

COMING HOME: The Priestman Steam Crane is lifted into its temporary position at HMAS Cerberus. Photo: LSIS Paul McCallum

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intranet homepage. For faults and issues contact the ICT Service Desk via the Service Request Cataloge or on 133 272.

FLSE Subs stands upFORMAL command of Fleet Logistic Support Element – Fleet Base West (FLSE – FBW) passed from Joint Logistics Unit – West to Commander Australian Submarine Forces on July 1. The logistics team has been retitled “FLSE Subs” to reflect its new role in providing a singular focus on first and second line support for the Submarine Force. OIC FLSE Subs LCDR

Steve Alchin led the team in a march from JLU-W to Submarine Force HQ where members joined the larger submarine community. Representing one initiative of the Submarine Capability Improvement Project, this relocation coincides with the Fleet-wide realignment of support to non-self-accounting units that standaridses FLSE units Australia-wide. The SMCIP aims to improve the availability of submarines by streamlining Navy’s supply processes, implementing more efficient materials handling practices and reducing logistics delays at each handling point.

IN BRIEF

LAST JOURNEY: AUSCDT-4 hands the trophy to CO

HMAS Stuart CMDR Jason

Hunter. Photo: CPOIS David

Connolly

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LEUT Lauren Rago

The Royal Navy has confirmed it is sending one of its most advanced war-ships, the guided missile destroyer hMS Daring, to represent the UK at the RAN’s International Fleet Review (IFR) in October.

Daring is based at Portsmouth in the UK with a ship’s company of 190 men and women who are busily exercising in the Pacific en route to Australia.

The IFR will be the biggest event the RN has participated in outside of the UK in several years.

The RN’s IFR liaison officer, LT Rob Packer, has been working at the British high Commission in Canberra since April.

“As hMAS Anzac participated in the UK’s own International Fleet Review and Festival of the Sea in Portsmouth in 2005, this is a fantastic opportunity to reciprocate,” LT Packer said.

“It is an honour for the UK to mark the occasion and, just like the mem-bers of the RAN and indeed many oth-ers from around the globe, the IFR is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for those who serve.

“To be part of the RAN centenary celebration is something the ship’s com-pany will be telling their families about for years to come.”

he said the participating members felt strongly about their involvement in the special celebration and showcase of naval capability.

“I am firmly of the belief that we should never forget our historical or tra-ditional roots. The UK-Australian naval bond goes back centuries and this is

exemplified in the close similarities between our armed forces,” LT Packer said.

When asked what the most challeng-ing aspect of the IFR would be for the UK team, LT Packer said it was the sheer scale of the event.

“An activity like this requires close coordination between ships to ensure we enter Sydney harbour in the right positions at the right time, which is a challenge and privilege for the ship’s navigator,” he said.

“It’s an incredible evolution to send a ship around the world and there’s a heavy amount of logistical planning that goes into it, but we have been doing it for centuries and it’s what we’re trained for.”

When asked what the highlight of the IFR would be, LT Packer said it was hard to choose.

“The whole thing is an opportunity to experience what being a sailor is all about in the modern Navy. Being part of the RN is something very special,” he said.

“The Fleet Review itself, the fire-works barges, the receptions, the march through Sydney City and the sporting events will all be high points.”

Sporting rivalry has been strong between the two countries since one could first throw a ball at the other. LT Packer is hoping a third round of a Navy “ashes” contest can be played off while Daring is “down under”.

he said when Anzac went to the UK in 2005, a cricket trophy was created that Anzac won.

The two nations then played anoth-er fixture in 2009 when hMA Ships Ballarat and Sydney visited Portsmouth

RN will make a Daring visit

as part of exercise Northern Trident. The UK won that match.

“The trophy is currently in Daring with the hope one or two games can be played while the ships are alongside to keep the tradition going,” LT Packer said.

he said the public and warship enthusiasts would be rewarded when Daring was alongside in Sydney as she would hold two open days during the IFR.

“I think it is a great chance for all involved to mix operationally and socially with members of other coun-tries on official and unofficial levels,” LT Packer said.

“This global deployment as a whole will bind the ship’s company into a really close team, almost a family, and these bonds and friendships will last a lifetime.

“I think they will all have many great memories to take home and cherish for years to come.”

More information on the IFR can be found at http://www.navy.gov.au/ifr

ALMOST HERE: LT Rob Packer, of the Royal Navy, visits the Heritage Centre at Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney. The RN will be sending HMS Daring, inset, to the IFR in October. Main photo: ABIS Nicolas Gonzalez

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LEUT Lauren Rago

Navy’s Fleet air arm (Faa) will play a spectacular role in the International Fleet Review (IFR) from October 3-11, which will include a combined flypast above more than 40 ships for the salute on sydney Harbour.

More than a dozen Navy heli-copters and hundreds of members of the Faa will contribute to mark-ing 100 years since the nation’s first RaN Fleet Entry in 1913.

The Faa will also showcase the way it supports today’s Fleet with the helicopters that have become integral to Navy operations.

Major aviation events within the IFR include a variety of aerial demonstrations and support activi-ties. These are expected to include helicopter flag flying, tactical mis-sion demonstrations, photographic support, vIP transport and medical evacuation standby.

On October 5, the IFR will fea-ture a streamed formation flypast and ceremonial salute for Governor-General Quentin Bryce at the exact same moment that warships on the harbour are making their salute.

That evening, fireworks will light up sydney Harbour.

aviation planning for the IFR is being undertaken by a small team of Navy reservists and per-manent personnel, working within the Headquarters Faa and the IFR Coordination Cell in sydney.

Team members are applying their skills and experience with dis-play flying, operations planning and logistics management, to achieve safe, spectacular and properly coor-dinated air activities during the IFR.

CMDR Rick allen is the IFR Manager within the Headquarters Faa. He is a reserve officer who has worked within the Faa since 1992 as a maritime aviation warfare officer, mostly flying seahawks.

CMDR allen remembers a sim-ilar spectacle during Navy’s 75th anniversary celebrations in 1986.

“I was in my second last year of high school and was only 15 months from joining the Navy as a bright-eyed midshipman. I remember the ’86 Fleet Review and harbour dis-plays being a strong motivation towards joining the Navy and my personal enthusiasm for the Fleet air arm,” he said.

“a special part of the events in October will be the wide variety of participants.

“spectators and aircraft enthusi-asts are likely to see military heli-copters and aeroplanes representing a number of our visiting Navy part-ners. In addition to the helicopters from each of our commissioned air squadrons, there will also be other Defence aircraft and some wonder-ful heritage aeroplanes that have a close connection to Navy.”

He said it took many people from across Navy to make the IFR a success.

“It is important to highlight that it won’t just be aircrew who are involved in the IFR. as ever, it will be a cooperative team effort between maintainers, aircrew, engi-neering support personnel and many others who will work to ensure that aviation aspects of IFR are safe, spectacular and well received by the general public,” CMDR allen said.

“Most people in the community don’t get to see Navy’s ships and

helicopters, let alone in the concen-tration being assembled for the IFR.

“a lot of careful management is required for a complex event like this. Part of that effort will include a graduated build-up to the activ-ity through training and trial flying. Our crews don’t get to do things like flag flying or mounting helicopter formations that often, so detailed preparation is essential. Our plans for the IFR include a practice and qualification opportunity for the vis-iting nations who may be participat-ing in the flying schedule.”

The Faa has not been involved in a public event of this scale in more than 25 years.

“It’s not something Navy does every day. We are used to working in small teams so it will be a chal-lenge of scale. Of course, the IFR will pose a fantastic opportunity to showcase Navy and the Faa to the people of sydney,” CMDR allen said.

“The Faa will be a strong play-er in the overall celebration of our nation’s Fleet. I think the highlight will be seeing it all come together, with squadrons participating in the salute and also cooperating with partner nations in a remarkable and uniquely navy celebration.”

“It will be such a special oppor-tunity for people who were not around in ’86 or ’88 and who don’t normally get the chance to see our helicopter operations up close.

“Everyone involved in IFR will remember October 2013 for the rest of their career and will take forward memories from a great celebration.”

More information on the IFR can be found at http://www.navy.gov.au/ifr

PLaCEs are still available for people wanting to be part of the tall ship fleet entry during the International Fleet Review (IFR) in October.

as part of the IFR celebrations the australian National Maritime Museum’s (aNMM) replica of Captain Cook’s ship HM Bark Endeavour will be at the forefront of the tall ship fleet entry into sydney Harbour on October 3.

aNMM is offering a once-in-a-life-time 10-day voyage on board Endeavour from september 24 to October 3.

Joining Endeavour will be more than 20 other australian and international tall ships that will be sailing from Hobart and New Zealand to sydney.

Only 10 voyage crew berths remain on board Endeavour for the IFR voyage.

Executive project manager aNMM vicki Northey said anyone wishing to join the ship could apply online for a berth.

“We’re very excited that Endeavour will be part of the Navy’s centenary cel-

ebrations and to play a part in commemo-rating the arrival of the first australian naval fleet into sydney 100 years ago,” she said.

voyage crew members on Endeavour will learn first-hand how seafarers sailed and navigated tall ships in the 18th cen-tury.

Members will sleep in hammocks, stand watch, handle rigging, furl sails, clear and steer the ship.

voyage crew prices are $3800. For those who can’t spare 10 days,

the museum is also offering day sails on Endeavour throughout the IFR from October 4-11.

When not sailing the harbour, she will be open for public inspection, displaying the living and working conditions on one of history’s great voyages of discovery – Cook’s circumnavigation of the globe in 1768-71.

For more information and bookings for Endeavour’s IFR voyage and day sails, visit www.anmm.gov.au/ifr or call (02) 9298 3777.

Getting ready to fly high

READY: Three of the four 723SQN Squirrels in IFR livery.

Photo: LSIS Yuri Ramsey

DRESSING UP: One of 723SQN’s Squirrels in IFR livery in preparation for its role in October. Photo: ABIS Alan Lancaster

SGT Dave Morley

as WELL as being one of Navy’s first seven ships into sydney Harbour in 1913, HMas Encounter claimed a number of ‘firsts’ during her colourful career.

Encounter became australia’s first cruiser when she was commissioned into the RaN on July 1, 1912.

she was launched in June 1902 at HM Dockyard Devonport in England for the Royal Navy but transferred to the RaN in 1912 as a training cruiser.

Encounter was assigned to the Pacific station when war broke out in 1914 and took part in operations in German New Guinea.

she intercepted and captured the steamer Zambezi, an ex-British vessel under German control, which became the RaN’s first wartime prize, on august 12, 1914.

When the australian Military and Naval Expeditionary Force advanced f rom Herber t shöhe to Toma on september 14, 1914, Encounter provided covering fire.

These shots were generally regarded as Navy’s first offensive fire of the war.

While patrolling the Fiji-samoa area she captured the German sailing vessel Elfriede on april 25, 1915.

In November and December 1918, Encounter carried out the Navy’s first overseas humanitarian assistance opera-tion in samoa, Fiji and Tonga.

she embarked medical stores and a joint army and Navy relief expedition providing valuable aid following a severe outbreak of influenza among the indig-enous populations.

Encounter spent less than a month at home before sailing for Darwin in January 1919, where she participated in Navy’s first services assisted evacuation.

an industrial dispute, which became known as the “Darwin Rebellion”, had escalated to the point where unionists directly threatened the Commonwealth-appointed administrator, John Gilruth.

For almost a month Encounter pro-vided a dominating presence in the har-bour and when the situation appeared stagnant, left for Melbourne on February 20, 1919, with the administrator and his family safely embarked.

On May 18, 1919, she took part in Navy’s first fleet review in Port Phillip Bay, which honoured the visit by the Prince of Wales who later became King Edward vIII.

On January 1, 1923, HMas Penguin, the depot ship at Garden Island in sydney, paid off after 47 years of naval service.

On the same day Encounter was renamed Penguin and recommissioned for service as the depot and accommoda-tion ship.

Painted white with buff funnels and without armament the new Penguin spent six years at Garden Island until reduc-tions in defence expenditure necessitated her disposal.

she paid off for the final time on august 15, 1929.

In 1930-31 she was stripped at Cockatoo Island Dockyard and her hull was towed out to sea and sunk off Bondi Beach on september 14, 1932.

she is now popular with technical divers and lies at a depth of about 74m.

Cruiser encountered many firsts during her long service

Chance to secure your berth

FIRST OF MANY: HMAS Encounter had a long career that saw her achieve many firsts for the Fleet. Photo courtesy of Sea Power Centre

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Since her arrival in the MeAO in May, HMAS Newcastle has conducted five replenish-ment-at-sea evolutions.

Most recently, Newcastle battled through 35 degree heat and 97 per cent humidity to complete multiple replen-ishment operations with USnS Patuxent in the Gulf of Aden on July 3.

During the liquid replenishment at sea (RAS-L), the Australian warship took delivery of almost 400,000 litres of fuel.

Thirty-eight pallets of stores, mostly fresh food, were then transferred from Patuxent to Newcastle by heavy jackstay.

POB Francis Standen said heavy jackstays were an important seaman-ship skill and it was good for the crew to successfully complete the evolution while on operations.

“We don’t get to conduct heavy jack-stays very often, so the experience was great for the whole crew,” he said.

“everyone did really well and it was great to see the whole ship’s company working together to get the job done.”

RAS evolutions allow Newcastle to continue her mission at sea, with-out having to visit a port to refuel and resupply.

On May 29, she conducted her first RAS with the UK’s RFA Fort Victoria in challenging conditions.

ABBM John Affleck, the fuel dump gunner, who fires the first line over to the other vessel said those working on the lines did so in 32 degree heat and 99 per cent humidity.

“The heat was something i have

never experienced for a RAS but the evolution went well and i managed to reach the other ship on my first shot. i wouldn’t live it down if i missed it,” AB Affleck said.

Members of the ship’s weapons elec-trical department were also involved in Newcastle’s first drink by hauling on the hose line.

newly-promoted ABeT Luke Batiste said that they had done several refuel-ling evolutions since he joined last year and the team knew what it needed to do to get the job done as quickly and safely as possible – even in the stifling heat.

“i’m surprised that it doesn’t matter who we refuel with, the routine is the same all over the world,” AB Batiste said.

After conducting her second RAS with USnS Medgar Evers, Newcastle conducted another RAS-L with the French navy’s FS Somme on June 9.

ABBM naomi Bloxidge was tasked with communicating with Somme’s per-sonnel via signal bats.

“it’s a universal language for these evolutions. even though we’re operating with a different navy, the signals are the same for everybody,” she said.

LSciS Glen Gante had a similar experience.

“it was a typical day in the life of a ciS at sea; we were reporting for duty to Somme before the RAS, just the same way we would with an Australian ship,” LS Gante said.

“it was great to work with coalition forces this early in the deployment and to continue strengthening ties with our allies.”

For others, like ABeT Jerrad coomber, one of Newcastle’s “Gunbusters”, the evolution was a good opportunity to spend the afternoon doing something a little different.

“it was such a good opportunity to get outside and out of the usual work-place,” AB coomber said.

“Although a serious and dangerous evolution, we all get in and manage a smile where we can. You don’t get to do this sort of thing in any other job.”

The replenishment gave Newcastle a much needed top-up for her continued combined Maritime Force duties, which included coordinated maritime security operations with Somme in the Somali Basin as part of the multinational combined Task Force 150.

The ships conducted multiple coor-dinated dhow boardings, in which a quantity of narcotics were found, seized and destroyed.

Newcastle was the on-scene com-mander for the period, manoeuvring both ships to locate contacts of interest, posi-tioning under the cover of darkness and conducting boardings from first light.

integration also occurred at a per-sonal level, with Newcastle’s boarding teams operating with both French and Djibouti translators providing language skills to help communicate with the dhow crews.

One of Newcastle’s boarding officers, LeUT David Osborne, bene-fited from having the French nationals at hand.

“With Newcastle in her first patrol in the MeAO, it was a fantastic oppor-tunity to draw on the experience of the seasoned French boarding party officer,” LeUT Osborne said.

LeUT Laura Ball, another of Newcastle’s boarding officers, said “Having the translators embedded in our team meant that we quickly built a very close relationship”.

“especially after returning back to Newcastle on the completion of the boardings and talking through the events and what they had seen in the previous several months of operations. This knowledge is invaluable and something that you can’t simulate in Jervis Bay.”

Having completed their time togeth-er, Newcastle took the opportunity to RAS for a final sip of F76 diesel from Somme before the warships parted com-pany on June 12.

She is likely to conduct many more RAS evolutions during her deployment to the MeAO.

HMAS Newcastle has been working with a number of other navies while on

Operation Slipper, LEUT Suresh Kumar and SBLT Rachel Jones report.

Big day for Newcastle

GROUP STRENGTH: ABET Jerrad Coomber and LSET Matthew McKechnie-Cooke heave in on the hose line with other members of Newcastle’s ship’s company. Photo: POEW Ben White

ON PATROL: HMAS Newcastle’s boarding team embarks a dhow discovered during a CTF 150 patrol. Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

IN CONTACT: Above, LSCIS

Glen Gante signals FS

Somme while Newcastle

conducts her replenishment at

sea approach.Photo: LCDR Luke

Miller

TOGETHER: The refuelling line from RFA Fort Victoria is connected to HMAS Newcastle during a RAS.Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

ALL READY: (Back row) LEUT Alisha Withers, LEUT Natalie Boulton, CPOATV Justin Gouin, LCDR Stewart Muller and (front row) ABATV Jason Fisher, ABCSO Catherine Ibbotson and POET Ryan Brook get ready to embark Newcastle’s Seahawk for an experience of a lifetime aboard Big Ike. Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

ALL ABOARD: Left, HMAS Newcastle’s boarding team embark a RHIB ready to intercept a dhow in the Somali Basin. Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

STEADY AIM: ABBM Lachlan Holliday prepares to fire the line launching projectile to FS Somme while POB Francis Standen, ABBM Kale Strawbridge and ABBM John Affleck prepare for replenishment evolutions. Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

TEAMWORK: (L-R) LEUT Julian Petitquenx, of the French Navy, LEUT Laura Ball, of HMAS Newcastle, and LEUT Saad Boulaleh, of the Djibouti Navy, standby ready to work together while boarding a dhow discovered in the Somali Basin. Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

LEUT Alisha Withers and SBLT Rachel Jones

HMAS Newcastle rendezvoused with “Big Ike” USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Arabian Sea for a day of steaming in company on June 2.

Joining the 100,000-tonne Nimitz-class carrier and her escorts, USS Hue City and German guided missile frigate FGS Hamburg, at dawn, Newcastle’s snap-happy ship’s company observed the carrier’s morning deck cycle from less than 500m away on her beam.

The noise at that range was deafening as Big Ike launched a variety of aircraft including EA-6B Prowlers, E2 Hawkeye and F/A-18F Super Hornets.

Eight lucky members of Newcastle were fortunate enough to enjoy a day aboard the carrier as part of a personnel exchange.

Exchanges were selected by raffle with the $800 raised going to the ship’s long-standing charity,

the Hunter Orthopaedic School in Newcastle.

In return, Newcastle was visited by a contingent of USN midship-men on their first training cruise.

The Aussie tourists began their tour on the 333m flight deck where they were able to stand just metres away from fighter jets as they launched and recovered.

LSML-C Nick Collins was in awe of the experience and was impressed by the fluid way the flight deck opera-tions happened around them.

“It was fascinating and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see how an aircraft carrier operates. It was like a floating airport only faster paced,” LS Collins said.

“I bought 75 of the 400 raffle tickets for an opportunity to cross-deck. It was an experience I will never forget and worth every dollar spent.”

After lunch, Newcastle took “plane guard” station one nautical mile astern of Ike while the Super Hornets returned from sorties over Afghanistan, often flying no more than 100 feet above the frigate.

Conning Newcastle less than 2km astern of an aircraft carrier was a unique experience for ASLT Mitchell Vines.

“It was a challenging but reward-ing experience,” he said.

“Despite being such a large ship, Eisenhower is quite manoeuvrable and some of the normal rules for station-keeping off large ships don’t apply. Being able to report to com-mand that we were in station off an aircraft carrier isn’t something you get to do every day.”

The day was then made even more special for ASLT Vines, when he was awarded his Bridge Warfare Certificate (BWC) by CO Newcastle CMDR Paul O’Grady.

“I’m stoked, obviously. It was a pretty special day already, made even more special by being award-ed my BWC,” he said.

“Having the presentation in the shade of a plane landing overhead and with our American guests on board made it a pretty unique event. Not many people can say they got their ticket while in compa-ny with a carrier.”

FIRST TIME: HMAS Newcastle breaks away from RFA Fort Victoria after a

replenishment at sea in the Middle East.Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

GETTING SUPPLIES: Personnel transfer fresh food delivered by USNS Patuxent during the heavy jackstay on the flight deck of HMAS Newcastle. Photo: LEUT Sarah West

CLEAR SIGNALS: Left, ABBM Naomi Bloxidge passes instructions to FS Somme with signal bats. Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

MILESTONE: CO Newcastle CMDR Paul O’Grady presents ASLT Mitchell Vines with his bridge warfare certificate. Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

TOP VIEW: LCDR Nick Hattersley checks out USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

LOOKING ON: HMAS Newcastle’s

ship’s company watches a carrier landing cycle as Newcastle takes

plane guard station astern of

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Photo: LCDR Luke Miller

UNIQUE EXPERIENCE: Above, ABATV Jason Fisher and LSML-C Nicholas Collins on the deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as a F/A-18 lands. Photo: LCDR Stewart Muller

CHECK: CPO Bob McCann inspects the F44 fuel during a RAS-L with USNS Patuxent. Photo: LEUT Sarah West

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ON DECK: ABML-S Emmanuel Alvestir and LSML-S Dominique Eyre-Walker spend some down time on the upper decks of HMAS Choules during Exercise Sea Lion. Photo: ABIS Chantell Bianchi

HAPPY VISIT: AB Matthew Hook teaches Amahla from Camp Quality how to prepare lines to make it easy to throw during an afternoon at HMAS Coonawarra. Photo: LSIS Jo Dilorenzo

HELPING OUT: Volunteers from Navy Headquarters Tasmania and CMDR Stacey Porter, right, with rubbish they collected after participating in a World Environment Day clean-up activity.

ON THE JOB: Above, CPOET Rob Clarke, of HMAS Melbourne, stands sentry on the wharf during a training exercise at Fleet Base East. Left, ABCD Jonathon Broard, of AUSCDT-1, after a dive during Exercise Sea Lion. Photos: ABIS Sarah Ebsworth and ABIS Chantell Bianchi

ON A MISSION: SBLT Terron Kelly poses with her bicycle at Fleet Base East

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CAPT Scott Ritchie Director Military Discipline Law

WHEN a person assaults another by touching, kissing, handling or otherwise interfering with them in an indecent manner and without their consent, it is a sexual offence.

What makes an assault indecent is determined by current community standards; however, any unwanted physical attention that is lewd or sexual could be seen as being inde-cent.

Overall, indecent assault can be characterised as behaviour compris-

ing any unwanted sexual behaviour or touching that is forced upon peo-ple against their will.

The ADF does not tolerate any form of indecent assault and it breaches the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 and civilian criminal law.

An offender is liable to a term of imprisonment for, in the case of the ACT where it is referred to as an act of indecency, up to seven years.

In addition, an offender can face administrative sanction for indecent assault, including dis-missal from the ADF.

A member can be suspended from the ADF while an allegation of indecent assault is investigated.

Indecent assault can cause enor-mous and long-lasting trauma to the victim.

It also can impair unit morale, cohesion and effectiveness in the workplace and on operations.

The prosecution by the ADF of recent cases of indecent assault demonstrate the resolve of the ADF to ensure that those mem-bers who engage in such criminal and offensive behaviour are held accountable.

Tough stance

JUNE TRIAL RESULTSNote: All Court Martial and Defence Force Magistrate trial results are subject to command

review and appeal. The results indicated are of trials across the ADF.

Other rankDefence Force MagistrateOne charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm DFDA s 61(3) and Crimes Act (ACT) 1900 s 24(1)

One charge of assaulting a subor-dinate DFDA s 34 (in the alternative)

One charge of creating a distur-bance on service land DFDA s 33(b)

One charge of failing to comply with a general order DFDA s 29(1)

The member was accused of creat-ing a disturbance and hitting another member in the face, causing injury. The member was also accused of being in an inappropriate workplace relationship. The member pleaded not guilty to the charges of assault and creating a disturbance, and guilty to the remaining charge. The member found not guilty of all charges except for failing to comply with a general order. The member forfeited seniority.

Defence Force MagistrateEight charges of misuse of a Commonwealth credit card DFDA s 61(3) and Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 s 60(1)

The member was accused of obtain-ing Commonwealth funds totalling $5406.54 when not authorised to do so. The member pleaded guilty to all charges and was found guilty of all. The member was dismissed from the ADF and sentenced to imprisonment for three months.

OfficerRestricted Court MartialOne charge of prejudicial conduct DFDA s 60(1)

The member was accused of being in a relationship with a member married to another member under their direct command. The member pleaded guilty to the charge and was found guilty. The member was reduced in rank and severely reprimanded.

NCORestricted Court MartialOne charge of attempted act of indecency without consent DFDA s 61(3) and Criminal Code Act 2002 (ACT) s 44(1)

The member was accused of attempting to take an inappropri-ate photograph of another member without their consent. The member pleaded guilty and was found guilty. The member was fined $4530 (with $2265 suspended), to be paid in fortnightly instalments of $87.12. The member was also severely repri-manded.

Defence Force MagistrateOne charge of theft DFDA s 47C

The member was accused of taking a number of electronic items when not authorised to do so. The member pleaded not guilty to the charge and was found guilty. The member for-feited seniority, was fined $2000 (to be paid in fortnightly instalments of $120), and ordered to return the elec-tronic items.

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ALL ADF members undergoing a domestic removal will be provided with an uplift on any day within a nominated week, rather than on a specified day within that week, as part of changes to take effect from August 5.

Director of Relocations and Housing Alan McClelland said the changes did not involve an adjustment to policy or relocation entitlements.

“While Toll Transitions uses their best endeavours to achieve a mem-ber’s preferred uplift date, this is not always possible, and when it is pos-sible, it often incurs additional costs to the services removals budget,” he said.

In 2012, Defence conducted a three-month trial of the whole-of-relo-cation cost model. The trial showed that Defence’s costs could be signifi-cantly reduced where the uplift takes place on another day within the same week as the member’s preferred uplift date.

The reasons for this are:➤ Taking advantage of cost differ-

ences in services arising from the day the service is supplied.

➤ Considering all relocation costs across each day of the requested uplift week when making the uplift decision.

➤ Choosing the day of the week that provides the most cost-effective combination of costs.

Since the introduction of the pre-application for relocation, mem-bers have been nominating a week in which they plan to uplift and Mr McClelland said the initiative was an extension of the process.

Members will submit their appli-cation for relocation in the usual man-ner, nominating a preferred uplift date.

Toll will determine the removal cost, select the best value for money uplift date within the requested week and advise the member.

“Members will be required to accept the allocated uplift date, how-ever their interests will be protected as commanding officers can approve the preferred uplift date where opera-

Varied removal dates good for budget

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CHANGES to Defence housing poli-cy will enable ADF members to have a non-dependant person reside in their Defence-subsidised housing for the purpose of providing child care.

As of July 1, a non-dependant person such as a family member or au pair will be able to occupy a ser-vice residence or a rent allowance property on a full-time basis to assist members and their families with child care and support.

Assistant Director Military Conditions and Housing Policy Bob Jones said the changes would give members a greater degree of flex-ibility when considering options for child care.

“Defence is committed to being an employer of choice and this change is another example of Defence’s commitment to supporting members through the changing stages of their life and career,” Mr Jones said.

“It also recognises the unusual patterns of work commonly associ-ated with Defence service.

“The changes complement a range of enhancements to family-friendly policies, such as the recent improvements to carer’s leave, which is also aimed at assisting

Defence families who need help with the care of children.”

In-home child carers will not be recognised as dependants by Defence and there is no change to benefits such as the number of bed-rooms or removals.

Defence will not be part of any contract or arrangement between the member and the carer or any organi-sation that facilitates the arrangement.

Members will be responsible for providing any remuneration to the carer, complying with relevant labour laws and providing the neces-sary liability or worker’s compensa-tion insurance.

It is a member’s responsibility to inform Defence Housing Australia in writing when their housing circum-stances have changed.

A resident child care form has been developed to gather informa-tion and feedback and may be used to notify Defence Housing Australia of any changes.

The form is available on the People Connect website.

Further information is available at http://intranet.defence.gov.au/pac/ or www.defence.gov.au/dpe/pac/ For enquiries about Defence housing policy, email housing.policyinquiry@defence.gov.au

Room for a carer

UPLIFT OPTIONS: Having flexible removal dates

will significantly reduce relocation costs.

Research into work flexibilityDEFENCE is conducting a large-scale research project across Navy, Army and Air Force to understand flexible work within the ADF.

The research will help in the design of a workforce model to provide enhanced flexible career options to ADF members.

Research Fellow from the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Samantha Crompvoets, is leading the research.

“There is limited information currently available on what flexible working arrange-ments are in place in Defence, why they are requested, who is requesting them, and what the outcomes are,” Dr Crompvoets said.

“We need a clearer picture of how flexibility is already applied in the ADF and of how it might be applied in the future.

“This diary study will provide some clar-ity around how formal and informal flexibility applies in the context of the day-to-day experi-ences of ADF members from all three services.”

Selected ADF members will complete a confidential diary over a five-day working week to describe their current working arrangements.

Dr Crompvoets said COs, warrant officers and XOs were also being asked to take part in a short interview to provide their insights on cur-rent flexible working arrangements.

Flexible work practices are high on the agenda for Defence and the 2013 White Paper recognises that Defence’s approach to its peo-ple needs to be flexible to build a more respon-sive and integrated workforce.

The research will inform a report submitted to Defence senior leaders later this year.

THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN

A leAding seaman from HMAS Waterhen has developed a vol-unteer program for the Artamon Public School in nSW. Members will listen to the students read and interact with them one on one. The program will run at the school for six weeks and commenced on June 4. it is designed to bring navy person-nel into the classroom to break down any barriers within the com-munity.

An ABle seaman was found to have con-sumed methampheta-mine during a random test under the PST Program. The member’s service was terminated in early June 2013.

tional reasons or extenuating personal circumstances exist,” Mr McClelland said.

“This approval will need to be pro-vided by the member to Toll at the time they submit their application for relocation.”

There will be little if any impact to

members who submit their application early.

Defence will conduct a review of these new arrangements early in 2014.

For more information, contact Toll Transitions on 1800 819 167.

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Michael Weaver

THE secret information exchange between Australia and its biggest allies will increase as part of a suite of improvements under the Improved Connectivity Initiative.

The current phase of the project involves providing greater connec-tivity between the Australian and the US secret networks.

The services will be put to the test during Exercise Talisman Sabre this month.

The project was trialled during Talisman Sabre 2011, while in this year’s exercise all ICT services required at the secret level will be provided by the project.

The project is scheduled to for-malise all support arrangements by October to ensure continued availabil-ity. Canada, the UK and New Zealand are considering the progress and are planning to have similar exchanges at the five-eyes level, negating the need for multiple networks.

The Assistant Secretary Military and Security Program Delivery in CIOG, Yaso Arumugam, said Talisman Sabre would allow real-time testing of connectivity between the Defence Secret Network (DSN) and the US Department of Defense’s secret network. “In the past, specific networks have been used for exercises, and connectivity to the US has been through various networks,” Ms Arumugam said.

“Connectivity between the

Australian and US secret networks allows approved users to directly collaborate with their counterparts and provides real-time access to sensitive information necessary to support exercises and operations.”

The SO1 Communication Information Systems Plans at HQ Joint Operations Command, LTCOL Dan Küffer, said the project required close coordination.

“We’ve been conducting opera-tions and exercises that require high-levels of collaboration with our allies. This project solves many of the interoperability issues associ-ated with having to share informa-tion across multiple networks,” LTCOL Küffer said.

“We’ve already reduced our need for additional hardware and the time taken in planning and execution of exercises and operations.”

An information campaign on the capability will include tours to bases, while many of the services are already in place for those on operations.

Director of Information and Data Exchange Systems John Boxall said the campaign would have a strong focus on user awareness, with information sessions detailing the eventual capabilities of the system, including points of contact.

Further information about the project is available from the ICI 4EYES Gateway page on the DSN, or contact the DSN Service Desk for assistance.

FLTLT Gavin Briggs

A NEW tool to help members understand the value of their ADF pay and benefits is set to be launched on August 1.

The user-friendly Compare Your Package (CYP) service will provide full-time ADF members with an up-to-date estimation of the financial value of their conditions of service and an overview of the intangible benefits available in their Defence service offer.

People Policy and Employment Conditions Branch Project Manager David Scott said it was hoped the service would give a comprehensive

view of members’ entitlements and the rewards and benefits of being a full-time serving member.

“How members use that infor-mation is up to them. Hopefully they will be influenced to stay long-er in the ADF,” he said.

The CYP report pulls together many of the benefits available to ADF members, including allow-ances, top-up superannuation and retention bonuses.

As a whole package, members can use it to understand how the Defence service package provides a wide range of benefits that other employers might not offer.

“That’s why we would say that it is an approximation,” Mr Scott said.

“It’s not an actual 100 per cent representation but it is very close.”

The program was authorised by the Chief of Services Committee to assist with retention of full-time ADF members, especially those who are critical to maintaining capability.

Members thinking of leaving the ADF are being encouraged to use the CYP to make an informed decision.

The online tool will allow them to compare their Defence package of pre-tax financial and non-finan-cial benefits with what is available outside of Defence.

The CYP can be accessed on the intranet from August 1 at: http://cass/apps/cyp

PERSONNEL will be able to check availability and book live-in accommo-dation with a new online service.

Defence’s Head Defence Support Operations Mark Jenkin signed a five-year contract with Defence Housing Australia (DHA) on June 21 to provide a national living-in accommodation booking and allocation service to ADF members.

There are more than 33,000 rooms available as living-in accommodation across Australia, which are used as permanent, course, exercise and transit accommodation, including as an alterna-tive to commercial accommodation dur-ing relocations.

The living-in accommodation book-ing and allocation system is an online service providing ADF personnel, unit and Defence administration with 24/7 access to real-time information on accommodation availability and options.

Acting Head Defence Support Operations Sue Parr said the system would provide a streamlined consistent process for ADF members.

“The booking and allocation system will allow ADF members to book living-in accommodation at all locations across Australia, through a convenient online national system,” Mrs Parr said.

A pilot program for the new living-in accommodation booking and alloca-tion system will begin in South-East Queensland in September. The remain-ing regions will transition to the DHA-managed system in the first half of 2014.

DHA already provides housing and related services to Defence members and their families. This new service is an expansion of DHA’s existing business and will enable DHA to provide a more complete end-to-end housing solution for all Defence members.

There are dedicated DHA field imple-mentation teams currently working in each DSRG region, focused on gather-ing issues to ensure Service and local requirements are captured in the new service.

For more information, contact LIAProject@dha.gov.au

Living-in booking goes online

OPTIONS: Live-in rooms are used for permanent, course, exercise or transit accommodation options. Photo: ABIS Richard Cordell

THE last Getting Division members (GE313) will march into history on July 26 as they graduate from the Recruit School at HMAS Cerberus.

Family and friends will watch as the new recruits close the chapter on the first stage of their training and take the next step toward their careers within Navy.

Getting Division was first established in 1961 and named in honour of CAPT Frank Edmond Getting, who was cap-tain of HMAS Canberra I while she came under long-range tor-pedo fire from several Japanese cruisers on August 9, 1942.

In August 2013, Getting Division will be renamed Emms Division in honour of LS Francis Bassett Emms, a lead-ing cook aboard HMAS Kara Kara I during the Japanese air raids on Darwin on February 19, 1942.

To commemorate the history of Getting Division, CO RAN Recruit School CMDR Aaron Nye extends an invitation to all former Getting graduates and staff to attend the graduation parade at Cerberus on July 26.

For further information contact LEUT Byron Nalty on (03)5931 5749 or email byron.nalty@defence.gov.au

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LSIS Helen Frank

WHEN ABMED Adrian Argall com-pleted the Advanced Medical Assistant Course at the Army Logistic Training Centre (ALTC) at Latchford Barracks, he got more than just a graduation cer-tificate.

To his surprise, he was singled out of his triservice class of 30 to be awarded the POMED Stephen Slattery award.

“It was an honour to receive the award,” AB Argall said.

“I wasn’t told that I would be receiv-ing it until just before the graduation, so it was a pleasant surprise.”

The Navy health community created the award to honour PO Slattery who was one of the medical contingent tragically killed in the Shark 02 helicopter crash in 2005, while conducting humanitarian aid in Nias in Indonesia.

The award is presented to the most outstanding student and covers all aspects of the course including academia, attitude and personal conduct.

Lead course instructor SGT Stephen Cassidy said AB Argall displayed a quiet confidence from the outset.

“He was rarely, if ever, flustered, which was particularly evident in prac-

tical assessments,” SGT Cassidy said. “AB Argall was also more than willing to assist other trainees in getting up to speed with their practical assessments, not only with other Navy trainees but Army as well.”

AB Argall is now using his new skills at HMAS Coonawarra.

“The course was really well run and I really enjoyed myself,” he said.

“I have been in Darwin for a little while now and I’m settling in.

“The health centre is fantastic with very friendly staff. I’m enjoying my time here but I hope to get to sea as soon as possible.”

The award was originally presented to the most outstanding student on the Navy Advanced Medical Course. But due to the relocation of the Medical School to the ALTC in 2010, the award had not been presented since 2009.

The Advanced Medical Assistant Course is set to change shape again with AB Argall’s class being the second last of the medic training courses in the current format.

The training will remain triservice, however the basic and advanced medics courses have been combined into one and renamed ADF Medics Course.

LSIS Helen Frank

ADF medics now earn recognised civilian qualifications in nursing and paramedicine and can work in civil-ian hospitals under changes to the ADF Medical Assistants Course.

All health personnel must now register with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) before being able to undertake on-the-job training or employment in civilian hospitals.

ADF medics have not previously been registered with AHPRA and have been largely restricted to work-ing within Defence facilities.

OIC RAN Medical School CMDR Tammy Thomas said Defence was now providing nation-ally recognised tertiary level civil-ian qualifications in the fields of enrolled nursing and paramedicine, which was broader than the training previously provided.

Last year, medical assistant training was significantly trans-formed to enable outplacement in civilian facilities.

Instead of a number of differ-ent phases to training, medics now complete one triservice course at the Army School of Health.

“The training will benefit Navy in that it allows our medics the oppor-tunity to be exposed to both real-time trauma and acute and chronic patients,” CMDR Thomas said.

This training enables registration with AHPRA, which opens up the opportunity for medics to practise their skills in hospital and pre-hos-pital settings throughout their career. This ensures skills will remain cur-rent at all times.

“With the support of Joint Health Command, we now have agreements with a large number of civilian health services that enable medics to undertake clinical placements in order to maintain skill currency,” CMDR Thomas said.

The new medical assistant train-ing has also enabled review of and subsequent changes to advanced Navy medics training, such as underwater medicine and the Clinical Manager’s Course, both conducted at HMAS Penguin.

Medics’ new opportunities

Rewarding award

ADVANCED SKILLS: (L-R) LSMED Errol Campbell, LSMED Corina Burrows, LSMED Kerrin Lyons and LSMED Nikki Furlong give a simulation mannequin a blood transfusion at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital during the Clinical Manager’s Course. Photos: ABIS Richard Cordell

PROUD MOMENT: WOMED Anthony McGovern presents the POMED Stephen Slattery award to ABMED Adrain Argall at the Advanced Medical Assistant Course graduation. Photo: Ian Morley

ROLE PLAY: Above, Deputy Director of Simulation Training LCDR John Vassiliadis poses as a casualty for LSMED Stephanie Houldsworth. Left, LSMED Kerrin Lyon prepares to decompress a lung in the mannequin.

A new course, the Maritime Operations Health Course (MOHC) has also been developed and will ensure the ongoing maintenance and update of practical medical skills, such as dealing with common medi-cal conditions, advanced life support and sickbay management and admin-istration requirements.

These advanced courses are sup-ported by a refurbished advanced medical simulation area at Penguin.

“Through the broadening and modernisation of medic’s training, the

RAN Medical School aims to produce a medical assistant fully equipped to operate independently or as a member of a small team in remote locations,” CMDR Thomas said.

The changes to Navy medical assistant training are designed to meet current and future capability requirements.

It also allows for standardisation of training across the services while ensuring a robust and comprehen-sive training continuum that is now comparative to the civilian sector.

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LCDR Chloe Wootten

Leadership training at the royal australian Naval College has been given an overhaul in the past year – deliver-ing scenario-based training that reflects a work-up in the Fleet.

LCdr steve delo is the lead instruc-tor for leadership at the college and coor-dinates exercises across a number of courses, which provide fluid situations requiring flexible decision-making as well as communication, teamwork and endurance.

“We now provide realistic scenarios to complement the theoretical leadership lessons provided at the college,” LCdr delo said.

“Naval officers are leaders, first and foremost, and it is vital that their training prepares them for life in the Fleet.”

Members of the New entry Officers’ Course (NeOC) now undertake four lead-ership and teamwork assessments during their 20 weeks, starting with exercise dardanelles in week two, exercise sunda strait in week four, exercise Coral sea at the mid-point of the course and finally exercise Matapan just before they gradu-ate.

each exercise builds on the previous assessment, moving from team-based activities through to individual leader-ship under stress and fatigue. exercise Matapan has seen the largest changes.

The five-day field and sea-going exercise provides the final assessment of the officers’ leadership potential and

was most recently held a week before the passing out parade for NeOC 48 last month.

Up to 10 serials run concurrently with aircraft and ship support, a complex undertaking, but junior officers now have a better understanding of the role Navy delivers in peace-time.

The trainees are embedded in a disas-ter-relief scenario, providing a work-up environment similar to what happens in the broader Navy.

There are up to 20 serials each day involving role plays across shore-based activities and operations in Jervis Bay on board MV Seahorse Horizon.

NeOC 48 graduate sBLT paul Cough lan was awarded the es Cunningham prize for leadership and said he liked the revised format.

“it was a great experience in that we were able to take positive control of a group,” he said.

The recent iteration was conducted with the assistance of the raN school of ship survivability and sea safety and a team of dedicated role players sourced from 816sQN.

The exercise operated day and night to increase the realism and learning out-comes for the trainees.

during the week, the trainees respond-ed to a simulated vehicle crash, a “crash on deck” requiring fire-fighting and ship-damage repair, retrieval of stores from helicopter drops all while maintaining security of allocated areas and personnel.

prac t ica l Leadership Tra in ing Coordinator CpO anthony Blowfield

said the exercise was a significant step towards training Navy’s future leaders.

“The focus on leadership here at the college is what separates officer training from recruit school,” he said.

“Life in the Fleet has many challeng-es, but it is how our leaders make consist-ent calm and considered decisions under pressure that is the distinction between success and failure.

“Our training is part of the ongoing professional development provided by hMas Creswell on behalf of Navy.”

LCdr delo said the focus in the past had been on discrete leadership challeng-es and the progression to scenario-based training had not been without challenges.

“The specifics of each exercise are dependent on the availability of both Fleet assets and external agencies,” LCdr delo said.

“This means that delivery of training is now more dynamic, but that change-ability is reflective of what the trainees will encounter later on.

“recently we have had role play-ers come in from hMas Cerberus and we have had the support of the australian Federal police, the Jervis Bay administration and serco-sodexo Fire service. Without this assistance and more from across Navy we cannot provide the variety and depth of challenges required.”

Anyone interested in taking part in exercises such as Matapan or a full-time position at the college should contact the Head Officers’ Initial Training Faculty on (02) 4429 7865 or email OITF.creswell@defence.gov.au.

Dynamic course changes

SBLT Katherine Mulheron

prOUd family and friends gathered to watch Navy’s latest communications and information systems (Cis) sailors gradu-ate their initial Cis training at hMas Cerberus on June 27.

The initial Cis course runs over 28 weeks and is an intensive training program incorporating a range of communications and information systems using a variety of equipment.

XO Cerberus CMdr Michael Oborn reviewed the graduating class and present-ed certificates to the 14 graduates.

“The job here of the staff at Cerberus is to create good sailors to serve in our Fleet, to ultimately fight and win at sea,” he said.

“Clearly the staff and your instructors have worked hard to mould you into the sailors you now are.

“From here on it is your actions and your ability to live out the Navy Values that will ensure you stand out from the crowd and define you as sailors of the raN.”

Cis sailors fill the primary roles of tel-

Proud day for the newest CIS sailors

IMPORTANT DAY: Reviewing officer of Initial CIS Course 306 and XO HMAS Cerberus CMDR Michael Oborn stops to speak to SMN David Trudgeon during the graduation parade at Cerberus, above, and presents SMN Jessica Tansey with the Warfare Community Medallion, inset. Photos: ABIS Dove Smithett

SHOWING SKILLS: MIDN Eliza Josey attends to a role-player during a leadership evolution as part of Exercise Matapan. Photos: LSIS Yuri Ramsey

TEAMWORK: NEOC 48 trainees row back from

Captain’s Beach.

IN TOUCH: LEUT Michael Halpin and MIDN Ebony Trewick receive a briefing from instructor LEUT Khesan Cox, far left, while SBLT Danielle Thomason communicates with other members of her team, left.

ecommunications, information technology service and support, visual communica-tions, information and operational security and information management.

Cis sailors perform visual communi-cations using flashing light and flags and operate and administer a number of iT networks used in the Fleet.

The graduates were: Seamen Drew Baber, Sam De La Mare, Aaron Johnson, Murray Milne, Daniel Murphy, Michael Pinney, Rylan Painter, Anthony Smigielski, Peter Tal, Jessica Tansey, David Taylor, Liam Thomas, David Trudgeon and Benjamin Williams.

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Just like a dux to waterWHEN LEUT Chad Mapp became

a father for the first time, it compelled the then-senior sailor to re-evaluate his priorities and

devote himself to his Navy career.Fatherhood inspired LEUT Mapp to seek

greater career challenges and rewards, which began with changing over to an officer.

LEUT Mapp said his new focus on lead-ership combined with a strong work ethic enabled him to achieve a number of top aca-demic awards and commendations.

“I hope what I have done can inspire oth-ers sailors as well as my children when they see what I have accomplished through hard work and dedication,” he said.

LEUT Mapp’s achievements since joining Navy as a hydrographic systems operator in 2002 give new meaning to the saying, “get-ting all your ‘dux’ in a row”.

They include the Mark Hudson Memorial Prize as dux of the 2005 Intermediate Hydrographic Systems Operator Course, the CDRE Sir James Ramsay Prize as the dux of the 2008 NEOC and the ES Cunningham Prize as the winner of the Raytheon Australia Leadership Award.

LEUT Mapp also received the 2010 Junior Officers’ Leadership Course dux award and more recently, in May was award-ed the Otto Albert Memorial Prize as dux of the 2013 JWAC Fleet Board.

In the academic world, LEUT Mapp has scooped distinguished performance awards at ADFA in the subjects of markets and com-petition, business organisation and problem

solving, project management and human resource management.

He also excelled at sea, receiving a com-manding officer’s commendation in 2005 and a Chief of Joint Operations group commendation last month as a member of Attack Four for a search and rescue task in 2012.

“I was embarked in HMAS Larrakeyah last year when she did a search and rescue operation with a suspected irregular entry ves-sel along with HMAS Wollongong,” he said.

“We responded in time to assist more than 200 people who were put in mortal danger when their boat sank off Christmas Island.”

LEUT Mapp said the rescue operation was challenging because the crew recovered bodies of people who had drowned as well as survivors.

“This ordeal affected people in different ways, but I dealt with it by talking about it with other crew members, rather than keep-ing it bottled up inside me,” he said.

The maritime warfare officer joined HMAS Darwin in April and has already set his sights on gaining endorsement for his bridge watch-keeping certificate, which he earned in the bridge simulator at HMAS Watson under the new curriculum.

“Darwin will soon commence her work-up, which will provide me and the other Phase IV JWACs with ample opportunity to complete the 160-hours required to get our platform endorsements,” he said.

LEUT Mapp will then take aim at the PWO – A (Fighter Control) course, which will lead him to the Hobart-class Aegis-equipped DDGs.

A change in family circumstances led a sailor to refocus on his career, Michael Brooke reports.

BIG ACHIEVEMENT: LEUT Chad Mapp, of HMAS Darwin, proudly displays the ES Cunningham Prize for leadership and the Otto Albert Memorial Prize for dux of the 2013 JWAC Fleet Board. Photo: ABIS Richard Cordell

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ON March 29, the Department of Defence lost one of its engineering pioneers and the scientist responsi-ble for the development and produc-tion of a world-leading airborne laser depth sounder, which this year enters its 20th year of operation with Navy.

Mike Penny was an engineer and scientist with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).

In 1968, he was selected to bring together and lead the team that was developing an airborne laser terrain profiling system, WrEMaPS.

The terrain profiler provided the height control data to speed up map production and it was during this time that the genesis of the laser airborne depth sounder (LaDS) occurred.

The success of WrEMaPS sup-ported a laser solution as the most promising way ahead and project development commenced with a staff target for an airborne system being raised in 1974.

Two more systems were built, the final of which, called WrELaDS II, had a stabilised platform, a scanning optical system, a complete data log-ging capability and a position fixing system.

By 1984, after 350 development and testing flights over five years, the WrELaDS II system had dem-onstrated that it could meet Navy’s depth, accuracy and other require-ments.

a contract was let in 1989 to produce the system for Navy and Mr Penny was the technical leader of a LaDS commonwealth cell during the development.

In 1993 LaDS began operations with Navy in the Great Barrier reef and Torres Strait and was accepted into service on October 8, 1993.

Mr Penny retired from DSTO in November 1994 after his 60th birthday. It was his dedication, persistence and enthusiasm that led the LaDS project to its ultimate success.

In 1986 Mr Penny received the Paul McGuire award for Maritime achievement and the Professional Officers award of Merit. In 1990 he was awarded the Public Service Medal and in 1992 he won the prestigious clunies ross National Science and Technology award.

During the workup trials of LaDS off Point Lincoln in 1992 the system discovered an uncharted shoal, which was later named Penny Shoal.

Mr Penny made a huge contribu-tion in his career and will always be remembered as one of the heroes of DSTO, Defence and defence industry.

Information supplied by Ralph Abbot, friend and former colleague of Mike Penny.

Defence farewells the father of LADS

cMDr ralph andrew clements MacDonald joined the Navy as a sailor in 1962 and received his commission at Britannia royal Naval college in Dartmouth in the UK in 1975.

cMDr MacDonald served in 10 different classes of war-ships and instructed in two war-fare training establishments.

an anti-air warfare specialist (aWS), he developed the initial raN air control School for aWS and air intercept control training.

While staff officer to the Naval Support commander, cMDr MacDonald managed all Navy’s ceremonial and major events with highlights including the coral Sea 50th anniversary and the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Sydney.

cMDr MacDonald had three Senior Officers’ commendations and was also honoured by the Simulation

Industry association of australia with the prestigious Simulation achievement award in 2010, the only such honour bestowed upon a serviceman.

cMDr MacDonald’s last position was as the maritime warfare training systems officer at hMaS Watson where he was instrumental in establish-ing the raN Maritime Warfare Synthetic Training capabilities in 2002, expanding this in 2006 to include persistent connection to the US Navy.

cMDr MacDonald was appointed a Member of the Order of australia in 1992 for service to Navy, particularly as the command support ser-vices officer of Naval Support command.

he retired from full-time service in 2012 after 50 years of continuous uniformed service.

he died at the age of 68 on June 1 after a battle with cancer.

RaDM David Guy holthouse (retd) lived by what Navy now acknowledges formally as its values – honour, hon-

esty, courage, integrity and loyalty. These qualities saw him through

three successful careers: in the Navy, as an international ambassador for the australian Stock Exchange and as a farmer and grazier.

raDM holthouse was born at Port hedland in the Pilbara on January 16, 1936. he joined the raN college in 1950, a few days after his 14th birthday.

In what others would later call an exceptional year group, raDM holthouse stood out from the start.

among other attributes, he dis-played a willingness to have a go at anything.

While most of his term mates fol-lowed, wisely perhaps, the time hon-oured military advice to “volunteer for nothing”, raDM holthouse usually did the opposite, jumping at the chance to do what normal people would see as “hairy” things.

This was an approach he would take throughout his career and which led him to later qualify as a Navy diver and private pilot and earned him wide-spread and enduring admiration.

raDM holthouse performed well at the college, winning cups for boxing and diving, being appointed a cadet captain in his final year and earning the English prize on graduation. In his own words, he was a reluctant starter in naval engineering.

In his second last year at the col-lege he became mildly short-sighted, a condition for which a then-inflexible Navy barred him from being what was then known as an officer of the Navy’s

executive branch. The sense of exclu-sion that he felt was very real when this career pathway was suddenly closed to him.

Eventually the Naval Board agreed that he could be a mechanical engineer and the 19-year-old cadet Midshipman holthouse travelled to the UK for five years of engineering studies with the royal Navy.

he excelled again in his studies and was awarded the prize for best all-round officer at the royal Navy Engineering college.

he was awarded the Queen’s Sword on graduation from hMS Triumph as the outstanding member of the whole graduating cadet body for that year, which was drawn from all branches of all commonwealth navies and curiously also Ethiopia.

No other australian has won the Queen’s Sword since.

By the time he graduated the cold War darkened australia’s strategic horizon. British nuclear weapon test-ing was taking place on australia’s shores and the then-LEUT holthouse found himself as one of only three raN officers to study nuclear engi-neering in the UK.

after his studies, sea service with both the rN and raN was the domi-nant element of this period of his life.

his favourite sea posting was in hMaS Queenborough, which deployed to the Far East Strategic reserve during his time on board.

he served in or near submarines,

had three postings to the australian Flagship, hMaS Melbourne, as well as several rN aircraft carriers, which gave him excellent training and experi-ence and many career highlights.

In 1961, raDM holthouse met Isobel Mary MacLachlan, known as Beechie, and they married on June 9, 1962.

raDM holthouse and his wife returned to the UK the next year for duties in Scotland at the Yarrow-admiralty research Department, where he led the design of what was to have been the rN’s last steam-driven frigate class – quite a responsibility and a clear reflection of the abilities of an officer who was not yet 30.

raDM holthouse and his wife returned home in 1965 for a sequence of Fleet postings, culminating in his operational service during the Vietnam War as engineer of the new guided missile destroyer hMaS Hobart.

Hobart was badly damaged by friendly fire off Vietnam and repaired under raDM holthouse’s supervision at the US Navy’s ship repair facility at Subic Bay in the Philippines, for which he was recognised with a Naval Board commendation.

returning home the next year, raDM holthouse became Director Fleet Maintenance, enjoyed a short secondment to the Department of the Prime Minister and cabinet and as Equerry to the King of Nepal, before taking up his last seagoing posting as engineer in hMaS Supply.

Supply quietly supported a royal New Zealand Navy frigate express-ing the New Zealand Government’s displeasure at French nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll in 1974 and ended that year in Darwin on christmas Day with the immediate disaster relief activities after cyclone Tracy.

raDM holthouse returned home to be promoted to rear admiral in 1987, the highest rank achievable by a serving engineer officer in the raN.

he was appointed an Officer in the Order of australia in 1991 and retired from full-time service in 1993 after a career of 43 years and more than 30 family moves. he spent two more years in the Navy reserve.

raDM holthouse started and finished his life on the land. In 1989, he bought a grazing property in the Braidwood district in NSW and became a successful fine wool merino producer.

This third career lasted nearly 25 years, and during that time, he enjoyed the hard work and physical labour that made the property into something he could be proud of.

raDM holthouse died on May 31, just a few months after his beloved wife Isobel who died on March 17.

Their 50-year partnership was strong, robust and committed and after Isobel died, he said he realised that all he had done, in his career and in their many homes together, was really for her.

raDM holthouse and his wife are survived by their children, Guy (a captain in the raN) and Victoria, daughter-in-law Lucy and grandchil-dren Isabelle and Madeleine.

Abridged version of eulogy provided by Victoria Holthouse.

Distinguished service and life honoured

Specialist’s life remembered

The late RADM David Holthouse (retd) had a long and exceptional career that epitomised

Navy values.

HONOURED: Naval members carry the late CMDR Ralph Andrew Clements MacDonald’s casket after his funeral service on June 6 at HMAS Watson. Photo: ABIS Cassie McBride

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Supplementary questionsProtein powders, pre-workouts and other potions – what’s good, what’s not and do we really need them? LSIS Helen Frank weighs in to the world of amino acids in the first of a three-part series.

DO yOu want to increase your endurance during workouts, decrease your recovery time between

training sessions, increase your strength gains or speed up your fat loss? Effective supplementation can augment your efforts in the gym and the kitchen, but you need to know what you are taking.

The most common supplement used by gym goers is protein powder. you need protein for a number of reasons.

Australian Institute of Sport dieti-tian Greg Shaw said protein was an essential nutrient in the diet and was necessary to build body proteins that have important structural and func-tional roles.

“Proteins are made up of various sequences of about 20 different amino acids,” Mr Shaw said.

“Eight of these amino acids are essential and must come from the diet. Some amino acids are used as a minor fuel source during exercise.”

Amino acids act as building blocks for most bodily structures, including hair, organs, skin and muscles. using amino acids, we build new tissue and repair damaged tissue.

Defence’s Senior Medical Adviser for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Mathew Klein, said Joint Health Command encouraged good nutrition in the form of a healthy, balanced diet rather than the use of supplements.

“While additional protein is ben-eficial when building muscle bulk, it can be obtained by adding protein-containing foods rather than by the use of supplemental protein powders,” Dr Klein said.

Protein is needed to maintain qual-ity of life, especially in the later years where bodies are more susceptible to skeletal muscle wasting.

Studies of men eating 1g of protein per kg of body weight showed they had a greater level of feeling full than similarly-aged men eating less protein. They also reported a superior ability to stick to an eating plan.

Most people don’t need a lot of protein. Mr Shaw said the recommend-ed daily intake was 0.75g per kilo of bodyweight a day, but some people would need more.

“Those undertaking resistance exercise have requirements that are slightly higher at 1.5-2g a day depend-ing on age, nutrition, training focus, training age and gender,” he said.

Highly active athletes, powerlifters crossfitters, people trying to gain mass and strength and those trying to lose weight can benefit from an increased protein intake. This improves diet adherence and provides amino acids for muscle recovery and repair.

So do you need to use a protein powder to supplement your protein intake? Protein powder can help ath-letes recover from training, but that doesn’t mean you need protein pow-der.

Protein powders have been formu-

lated to stimulate muscle tissue growth from a minimal amount of quality protein. However, the variability in the ingredients, quality and contamination can impact on their effectiveness.

“I would recommend a protein powder to a person who is looking to increase muscle mass and is undertak-ing regular resistance exercise for con-venience immediately after resistance training if they are unable to access quality food within the next hour,” Mr Shaw said.

“I encourage real food protein

sources at all main and mid-meal snacks to continue the growth and repair of muscle tissue if the person is looking to increase lean muscle mass.”

Mr Shaw said protein intake was effective at increasing muscle protein for 24 to 48 hours after resistance exercise, so regular intake of quality protein sources throughout the day would help muscle growth.

Next edition: Choosing the right supplements.

Bulking up: Protein powder can help athletes recover from training, but that doesn’t mean you need protein powder. Real food protein sources help muscle growth.

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27SPORTJuly 18, 2013 www.defence.gov.au/news/NAVYNEWS

BACK BREAKER: WO Gary Fuss bowls in the International Challenge Shield between the World Defence XI and the Australian Cricketers Association Masters in Canberra last November. If you picked the non-striker as being new Australian coach Darren Lehmann – full marks; inset, AB Al Kristensen.

Still speeding alongJohn Martin

HIS teammates might wonder how WO Gary Fuss keeps steaming in and bowling fast, but there’s no getting away from it – the evergreen cricketer is still getting results.

WO Fuss took a hat-trick against Air Force at the International Defence Cricket Challenge (IDCC) in Canberra last November.

He is one of two Navy players select-ed for the Australian Services Cricket Association (ASCA) team that has answered an SOS to compete in the International Cricket Council (ICC) East Asia Pacific (EAP) quadrangular twen-ty20 tournament in Brisbane next month.

The other Navy player is AB Al Kristensen, who has been named vice-captain.

Originally, a New Zealand Maori XI was invited to play in the tourna-ment. But when the Kiwis withdrew in late April, ASCA was invited to take their place.

If you are interested in representing Navy at this year’s national triservice carnival, contact navysport.cricket@defence.gov.au

The nationals will be held in November. The men’s triservice competition will be held November 19-27. for the first time there is

hoped to be a women’s competition which will be run November 22-27. The combined services (men and women) will be held November 27-30.

Players interested in the women’s completion can seek more informa-tion at asca.cricket@defence.gov.au

The tournament will be played from August 12 to 17 at venues across Brisbane.

Team captain SGT Ian Roberts (Army) has led the team since 2011 and is excited about this latest chal-lenge.

“This is possibly the best ASCA side that has been selected on talent alone and we will be up against some very good opposition,” SGT Roberts said.

That opposition will be a highly regarded Australian indigenous devel-opment squad, the Papua New Guinea

national team and a team from East Asia/Pacific, which will draw on players from Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, the Philippines, Tonga, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea.

PNG is ranked 19th in the world and will use the tournament as a warm-up before its participation in a T20 World Cup qualifier game in Dubai later this year.

In many ways, WO Fuss, of New Generation Navy in Sydney, and AB Kristensen, of HMAS Stirling, repre-sent opposite ends of the team.

His hat-trick last November was

one of more than a dozen he has taken over his 23-year ADF career.

He finished the game against Air Force with 6 for 27, and chipped in with 18 with the bat.

AB Kristensen, also the Navy cap-tain, is one of the young lions of the team.

He scored a century for ASCA on debut in 2011 and wants to transfer from Stirling this year to Canberra where he hopes to figure in the ACT Comets squad as a top-order batsman.

The ASCA team members, who were picked on the strength of their performances in the IDCC, will gather in Brisbane on August 7 for pre-tour-nament training.

The other members of the team are – Army: MAJ Nic Griffith, SIG Beau Wright, SGT Don Mander, LCPL Al Ryder, CPL Corey Baker, SGT Martin Blackman, TPR Craig Holmes and SGT Mark Brown. Air Force: LAC Kaleb Tymko, FLTLT Jarrod Moxey and CPL Adam Bosworth.

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AB Khan was well assisted by AB Sam Weir, who scored an important try in the semi-final to give her side a 5-2 victory over the super-fit Divers.

Runners-up Kuttabul lamented a number of missed opportunities in the final, after steam-rolling their opposition in their previous five games. Team cap-tain AB Josh Moxon said bad luck and fatigue cost Kuttabul the final match.

“We didn’t have enough substitutes

this year, while we also lost two key players through injury in the round-rob-in phase,” he said.

AB Moxon, who scored the try of the tournament after a 40m burst and a sequence of juggling passes by support players, said Kuttabul was well served by play-maker LSPT Tony Trudgett.

LS Trudgett scored or set up more than 20 tries on the day, but had a down-er in the opening match against HMAS Waterhen when he bombed a try by run-ning over the dead-ball line.

Michael Brooke

SYDNEY Legacy has launched its appeal for Gold Charity runners in the City2Surf.

It is looking for 10 ADF person-nel to join the City2Surf’s Sydney Legacy Gold Charity team.

The 14km race from Hyde Park in Sydney’s CBD to Bondi Beach will be held on August 11.

The Gold Charity entry is ideal for the runners who would like to make fundraising the focus of their event experience and start at the front of the pack.

The Gold runners start behind the Red group and in front of the Green group.

Gold Charity runners have their entry fee waived as a reward for committing to fundraise for their charity.

As places are limited, Legacy will choose to allocate entries to runners on the strength of their commitment to fundraising.

Chosen members wi l l be required to secure their entry with a $250 deposit and raise a minimum of $750 or commit to raising $1000.

It is hoped that each fundraiser will exceed their target and help Legacy raise more than $30,000.

To register, contact Sydney Legacy’s Events and Community Engagement team on (02) 9248 9048 or fundraise4us@sydney-lega-cy.com.au

VICTORS: The happy HMAS Albatross winners, from left – back row: CMDR Kyle Clifford, LSPT Ryan Eatt, ABATA Jodie Kahn and SMNATA Jesse Bryant. Front row: LSATV Matthew Henry, SMNATA Samantha Weir, SMNATA Stephen Holmes and ABHSO Ben Smeeth; above, ABATA Khan who scored the telling opening try.

Photos: LSPTI Callan McDonald

Albatross proves untouchable

Going for gold at City2Surf

SPORTS SHORTSRugby reunionHMAS Albatross Rugby Union Football Club will hold a reunion in Nowra as part of the Fleet Air Arm’s 65th anniversary celebrations this year. The reunion will be held at the Postman’s Tavern at 2pm on October 26. Anyone who was involved with the club and would like to attend is asked to email john.campbell6@defence.gov.au or nicholas.sverdloff@baesystems.com

Pollies outplayedTHE Australian Command and Staff Course Rugby side beat a team representing Australia’s politicians 26-12 in Canberra on June 16. College forwards ensured phase ball was secured, allowing the backs to find the gaps. The ACSC will face HQJOC or a Veterans side in a match to be played in Canberra in August or September.

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With double points on offer for the women, ABAtA Jodie Khan wasted no time setting up hMAS Albatross’ win against hMAS Kuttabul in the final of the Adelaide Cup/Benny hill Plate touch football competition.

AB Khan, of 723SQN, scored a try in the opening minutes to

give the Albatross Untoucha-bles a 2-0 lead.

AB Khan said when she saw the ball coming her way at bul-let speed she was worried she might drop it.

“the boys trusted us girls to-day to score the tries that were worth double points,” she said.

“it was good that they in-volved us in the team like that

and even better that we didn’t let them down.”

the Untouchables went on to win 4-0. it was their fourth title triumph in seven years.

More than 19 teams contest-ed the competition, which was played at Sydney’s Randwick Barracks on July 3.

All tries scored by females earned two-points while tries

by males were worth only one point.

the Untouchables domi-nated the Pool C competition, beating Fleet Support Unit 8-0, hMAS Yarra 7-0 and hMAS Parramatta 6-0 and breezed into the final against Kuttabul with a 10-0 shellacking against the hogs and a 5-2 victory over AUSCDt-1 in the play-offs.

AB Khan, who played on the wing, posted a try in every match.

Untouchables captain SMNAtA Stephen holmes was thrilled with AB Khan’s opening try in the final.

“that really put Kuttabul under pressure,” he said.

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HMAS Albatross finds Khan-do attitude

GOiNG FORWARD: HMAS Albatross player CMDR Kyle Clifford takes the quick touch and gets ready to play the ball in the Adelaide Cup/Benny Hill Plate touch football competition at Randwick Barracks, Sydney.Photo: LSPTI Callan McDonald