Noosa twins reunited as air force engineers in UAE.
Twin brothers posted to opposite ends of Australia have been reunited at the opposite end of the world on deployment in the Middle East.
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On a Royal Australian Air Force base in the Middle East, twin brothers Aiden and Zac have been reunited after months apart and thousands of kilometres away from their Noosa home.
The brothers posted to opposite ends of Australia were reunited at the opposite end of the world on deployment in the Middle East.
Flight Lieutenants Aiden and Zac Pattison grew up on the beaches of Noosa, which are a long way from the sands of Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates.
Work schedules and deployments often keep the brothers apart, with Zac usually posted to RAAF Base East Sale and Aiden to RAAF Base Townsville.
Recently, Zac joined his older brother at Camp Baird to take over from him as one of the project engineers.
They both pursued a career in engineering, with Aiden, the older brother by 18 minutes, joining the Air Force first and Zac following after university.
Aiden’s speciality is expeditionary engineering around airfield construction and contingency response, while Zac works on civil engineering and airbase operations.
“It was pretty cool knowing I would be taking over from my brother in the Middle East,” Zac said.
“An overseas deployment is something that I’ve been looking forward to ever since I finished my initial training,” he said.
Aiden said they are not identical twins and claimed he got the good looks and his brother got the glasses.
Zac was quick to counter he has the upper hand when it comes to Parkrun, but there isn’t any solid evidence to prove this, according to Aiden.
“We don’t get much of a chance to catch up, so it has been great to spend time together and beat him in another Parkrun,” Zac said.
They have done the Noosa Parkrun a couple of times together but spent most of their weekends mountain biking growing up.
Zac had always enjoyed travelling, camping and adventure and saw what his brother was getting up to in the Air Force and wanted to join in.
Together the twins manage a multimillion-dollar engineering infrastructure development project at the base.
A typical day for them involves a run and big brekky before work, which involves project meetings, managing contractors and defence stakeholders and lots of documentation.
Headquarters Middle East provides support from communications to logistics and airbase operations for all ADF operations
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