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US navy, Fijian military help with Brisbane flood clean-up

Close to 100 US sailors and military personnel from Fiji will help with Brisbane’s ongoing flood clean-up and are heading into one of the city’s hard-hit suburbs.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. Judge Shakila (last name supplied only). A judge in Afghanistan responsible for jailing and ordering the execution of Taliban members in cases of terrorism, kidnapping, murder, and armed robbery has escaped thanks to a team of Australians. She’s been flown to Greece with her ten family members and will soon get a Visa for Australia., , It is likely Judge Shakila’s family would have been slaughtered in front of her. Likely her daughters would have been passed around and raped. Likely her grandchildren would have had their throats slit or sold into sex slavery.

Afghan judge meets Aussie women who helped her flee the Taliban

An Afghan judge has met face-to-face in Brisbane with the four Australian women who helped her and her family escape from the Taliban as they took over Afghanistan.

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This handout photo taken on January 19, 2022 and released on January 20 by the Royal Australian Air Force and the Australian Defence Force show HMAS Adelaide embarking an Australian Army CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters before departing the port of Brisbane, to provide humanitarian assistance to Tonga following the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haaâpai underwater volcano on January 15. (Photo by LSIS David Cox / Australian Defence Force / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Operation Tonga Assist underway as navy ship leaves port

At least four Tongans hoping to find family members they have not heard from following a volcano eruption were aboard the HMAS Adelaide as it left Brisbane overnight en route to the devastated pacific island nation.

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Help is on its way: Ship headed to Tonga arrives in Brisbane

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Help is on its way: Ship headed to Tonga arrives in Brisbane

A Royal Australian Navy ship has arrived in Brisbane to pick up humanitarian supplies on its way to Tonga. A famous Olympian who has not yet heard from his father helped pack some of the boxes.

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Australian Army soldiers approach Langham Beach during Talisman Sabre 2019.

Land combat to launch Australia-US military exercise

The opening ceremony for the ninth iteration of the biennial exercise will be held on Wednesday.

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Australian Army soldiers from 2nd Commando Regiment board a 6th Aviation Regiment UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Townsville during a training activity as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019. *** Local Caption *** Special operations members from the United States Army, United States Navy, United States Air Force, Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Federal Police Crime Scene Investigators trained together during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019 (TS19), developing interoperability whilst conducting special forces missions throughout North Queensland. TS19 is a bilateral combined Australian and United States (US) training activity. TS19 is designed to practice our respective military services and associated agencies in planning and conducting Combined and Joint Task Force operations, and improve the combat readiness and interoperability between Australian and US forces. TS19 will be the eighth iteration of the exercise and consists of a Field Training Exercise incorporating force preparation (logistic) activities, amphibious landings, land force manoeuvre, urban operations, air operations, maritime operations and Special Forces activities.

Talisman Sabre: 700 foreign soldiers to quarantine in Qld

Neither Queensland Health nor Defence would reveal whether any of the soldiers in quarantine had tested positive for Covid-19.

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1800 foreign soldiers to land on Qld soil amid Covid crackdown

1800 foreign soldiers to land on Qld soil amid Covid crackdown

Close to 2000 overseas soldiers will descend on Queensland next month for a huge joint military exercise, but they will face stringent Covid restrictions both before and during their time here.

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Soldiers on the HMAS Adelaide preparing to leave for the assault. Australian Forces during a beach assault at Shoalwater Bay. Pic Peter Wallis

COVID no match for largest joint military exercise

Australia’s largest joint military exercise with the US will forge ahead this year despite the global coronavirus pandemic, but just how many troops will show up remains to be seen.

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ROCKHAMPTON, AUSTRALIA - JULY 09: Captain Nick Garrett from Headquarters 7 Brigade looks through the sights of his rifle as part of exercise Talisman Sabre on July 9, 2015 in Rockhampton, Australia. Talisman Sabre is a biennial military exercise that trains Australian and U.S. forces to plan and conduct combined task force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts. TS15 will incorporate force preparation activities, Special Forces activities, amphibious landings, parachuting, land force manoeuvre, urban operations, air operations, maritime operations and the coordinated firing of live ammunition and explosive ordnance from small arms, artillery, naval vessels and aircraft. (Photo by Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images)

War games in turmoil after claims $1.6bn defence system hacked

The nation’s largest joint military exercise could operate the “old fashioned way” following allegations a defence computer system had been compromised.

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Images of a KC-10 Extender refuelling a F/A-18 Hornet for operation Talisman Sabre. Picture: Jodie Munro O'Brien

Watch a Hornet refuel in midair

THIS week a petrol station in the sky is flying overhead from Brisbane to Shoalwater Bay and back again. WATCH THE VIDEO as an F/A-18 Hornet refuels over Queensland.

Nuclear sub slips silently into Brisbane

A NUCLEAR-powered US Navy submarine has quietly pulled into the Port of Brisbane to little fanfare and not even a peep of protest.

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