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Binh Ba, South Vietnam. July 1970. Corporal Michael Dawkins of Noble Park, Vic, uses a belt as a tourniquet on a Vietnamese soldier during a lesson on first aid to other Vietnamese. Cpl Dawkins was a medic at the 1st Field Hospital, Vung Tau, but is now working with Mobile Advisory Training Team Number 1, north of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat. The Teams, called MATTS, are being formed around Phuoc Tuy Province with regional force companies and popular force platoons as part of a build up of the Australia Force's training effort in Vietnam.
Ap Suoi Nghe, South Vietnam. July 1970. Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Alan G. White of Maryborough, Qld, uses a Vietnamese interpreter to give a lesson in the use of the Claymore mine to a popular for
Di An, South Vietnam. June 1970. A US Army instructor watches as a corporal fires a .30 calibre machine gun during range practice, about fifteen miles north east of Saigon. He was one of a small numbe
Di An, South Vietnam. June 1970. While an American instructor feeds in the rounds, Corporal Mick Schneider of Mt Lawley, WA, fires a burst from an M60 machine gun during range practice, about fifteen
Binh Ba, South Vietnam. February 1971. Corporal Paul Hanley of Manly, NSW, a medic with the Mobile Advisory and Training Team (MATT), treats the infected foot of a young Vietnamese child. Corporal Han
SOUTH VIETNAM. 1969-02-17. A SIX MAN MOBILE ADVISORY TRAINING TEAM, FROM 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) BATTALION, IS STATIONED AT THE VILLAGE OF DAT DO, SOUTHEAST OF THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN TASK FORCE BASE AT NUI DAT, P
Pleiku, South Vietnam. July 1970. Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) adviser, Captain (Capt) Peter Shilston of Williamtown, NSW (left), uses maps to plan a cordon and search of a Montagnard
