The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Regular and Citizen Military Force soldiers on a supply exercise on the NSW north coast are using a fishing trawler and a RAAF Dakota to simulate the Maintenance of a 3000 man battle group. The 5 day exercise in supply and maintenance methods is known as Tidal Wave. It ends on Friday (April 17). More than 500 troops are involved belonging to the 8th Supply and Transport Column part of the Army's Communication Zone. Most of the troops are Citzen Military Force members supported by regular soldiers and many of them are acting as stevedores during the unloading of the trawler. The exercise is being held in the Port Stephens area at Gan Gan, where supplies from the trawler are loaded onto 26 amphibious DUKW's and transported to the beach. Here they are loaded from DUKW's onto Army trucks and transported inland into the Tea Gardens area. Sub-units taking part are the 38th Supply Company from Randwick, 12th General Transport of Marrickville and the 16th Amphibious Company from Newcastle. Interstate units are also taking part. Regular and CMF soldiers acted as enemy during the operations.
Far from the cold of an Australian winter a group of regular and citizen soldiers from Sydney, NSW and Melbourne, Vic based units, are working in the tropical heat of the north coast of Papua New Guin
For 120 soldiers of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force their part in Exercise Temple Tower came to a close with a familiarisation trip on one of the Navy's Heavy Landing craft. Two LCHs, HMAS Labuan a
Australian soldiers who go to Vietnam for active service have not said goodbye to their days of training. Training is a constant fact of life with the soldier, whether in Australia or on active servic
Nine hundred crack commando and infantry troops are taking part in a realistic commando type exercise in the rugged Kimberley region in the north west of Western Australia. The exercise - Appian Way -
Soldiers of the 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, recently had their first real taste of the Malaysian jungle. They were taking part in exercise "Sheer Hell" in Malaysia's Negri Sembilan State
Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Pacific Islands Regiment, moved into the field in a roar of live ammunition recently, for their annual exercise near Port Moresby. The soldiers are from Taurama Barr
