Seen people cruising around the mess in crocs is this kosher?

The first K9 has started down the production line in SK. First 2 K9's and 1 K10 will be SK made

https://twitter.com/2805662/status/1773571429981618508/photo/1

What is the deal with wearing GoPros in the adf/other militaries, are soldiers given them to wear or is it a personal item you can choose to bring with you from home. Have always been curious when coming across combat footage. Cheers

I see a lot of comments about how the operation to assist the elderly drove them to leave the ADGF. Did it actually knvoleinvolve anything unreasonable ?? I

This ANZAC Day our country town RSL will have a dawn service, wreath laying, catafalque party, short march, gunfire breakfast, two-up, and plenty of rum and coffee to go round.

What is your RSL doing in 2024? Anything unique to your home town?

Evening all, Wondering if anyone has had any luck in this instance. I medically discharged a few years ago, bought a house and used my final certificate. I have had to sell my home due to discharging conditions, under section 20 (or 22) I am able to access another certificate. The issue I have run into is in the area we are living, there is a lack of suitable housing to purchase so we have decided to build. That way we can build a home to better cater for my conditions and gradual, inevitable health decline. The issue is that from the time the certificate is needed to apply for the loan, till construction is completed, will be well over 12 months, meaning I will only have part of my construction covered by Dhoas as I only get one bite at the cherry. Build times around here are 18 months. So an extension is needed though from what I have read, an extension is not possible. Has anyone been in a similar circumstance and pleaded their case to DVA or found a way around this issue? Thanks in advance!

Evening all, Wondering if anyone has had any luck in this instance. I medically discharged a few years ago, bought a house and used my final certificate. I have had to sell my home due to discharging conditions, under section 20 (or 22) I am able to access another certificate. The issue I have run into is in the area we are living, there is a lack of suitable housing to purchase so we have decided to build. That way we can build a home to better cater for my conditions and gradual, inevitable health decline. The issue is that from the time the certificate is needed to apply for the loan, till construction is completed, will be well over 12 months, meaning I will only have part of my construction covered by Dhoas as I only get one bite at the cherry. Build times around here are 18 months. So an extension is needed though from what I have read, an extension is not possible. Has anyone been in a similar circumstance and pleaded their case to DVA or found a way around this issue? Thanks in advance!

With the early retirement of the Taipans and the resultant capability gap before the Blackhawks come online in meaningful numbers what are Army’s pilots and those in the training pipeline doing in the meantime to fill their work days?

I am in the process of purchasing an investment property outside of my Housing Benefit Location, outside the 30kms by road and the 150minutes by public transport.

I have called DHA to inform them of my intention, whilst nothing has been formally signed yet and I still don't own the house, and they have tried to tell me that noting it is 3 bedrooms, it will most likely be deemed suitable and I could possibly lose my SR entitlement.

I have scoured PACMAN and found that within 7.2.5 Suitable own home, 1. subject to section 7.2.9, a home is suitable own home if it meets ALL these conditions, and then with b. it is as the members housing benefit location or family benefit location.

Obviously it doesn't meet that as it is outside the housing benefit location due to distance/time.

Has anyone else been in the same boat with DHA IRT purchasing an investment? Has anyone been forced to give up their SR and move although it is outside of their Housing Benefit Location?

TLDR: Gone are the days of double digit growth, Xi is reducing the size of the market run economy and increasing the size of the state run economy at the cost of growth IOT build resilience for Cold War 2.0 and global consequences of retaking Taiwan.

Hey couple of Paragraphs

But what’s Xi’s purpose? “Remember Xi’s long-term objective,” say a pair of analysts for Garnaut Global, an advisory firm for global asset managers, run by the Australian China expert John Garnaut and business partner Matt Pottinger, formerly US deputy national security adviser.

“Even as Beijing alienates investors, Xi Jinping’s ultimate objective remains unchanged – to build an economy fit to survive and win in the new era of Cold War 2.0,” write analysts Sam George and Matthew Johnson in a client note this month. “That involves enduring Ukraine-type scenarios and eventually outmuscling the US, China’s apex competitor, in the contest for Taiwan.”

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Fchina-s-economy-is-in-a-terrible-funk-just-how-xi-jinping-likes-it-20240325-p5feyu.html

Are the responsibilities of an APS6 typically higher than that of an E6/OR6?

And looking at PACMAN, unsure what the payment amount would be and which section applies.

4.1.9 - outside of pay structure = 5% payment only

Or

4.1.17 - member performing duties of a APS employee or foreign military force position = one rank higher payment.

The difference is significant (over $5K)

Chain of command reckon its 5%, I read it differently. Anyone got any examples...

Issued sleeping bag - Please help

My friend bought this a few weeks back from a firearms fair and couldn’t find any information about it online, would anyone here be able to provide any info about it?

So supposedly completed and given to government for a decision. What are peoples guesses?

I think we’d all like to see DHA given the flick but I can’t see that happening. At this point I’m not expecting anything more than some modest DHOAS changes and not much else.

Well I've done a while in the ADF and am feeling this year could be my year I might get out. I enjoyed my time in and still love the role (army, combat corps) but the longer i stay in the more I'm growing a bit tired of some of the associated B.S and feel like moving on could be an option.

I was looking into the ABF maritime tactical officer role, as it looks interesting and could be a good change for the mean time. I do also speak another language so I'm hoping that could make me more competitive. Does anyone know about the requirements for fitness, day to day life, ect?

I've done some research but the website is not overly descriptive in terms of what it is really like. Anybody able to help?

Appreciate it!

Has anyone noticed that retention is still in the shit, from what I have heard out in the fleet a lot of junior sailors are still leaving and they don’t have enough people to fill billets on ships so are already giving them to fresh sailors who haven’t completed CAT training. It seems like it isn’t improving at all have any over rates or services been the same?

As an ex-navy member and currently in the defence industry, I find I'm totally burnt out and need a bit of change and in need of getting out of Sydney. Unfortunately from what i can see, career opportunities are pretty limited outside major capital cities.

I'm hoping to get advice from other vets who've moved onto careers in less built up areas and made it work, and what challenges were there to adapt to other careers.

As a bit of background, I've got an electronics trade but I'm not wholly committed to continuing down that path.

Get this fucking nugget foreskin off my head.

Didn't know where else to ask but I'm curious if anyone knows of a list of benefits that APS Defence personnel can get. I know of the Cadbury factory outlet access and also a Krispy Kreme discount (?) but I've heard there's plenty more.

Much appreciated.

According to this, Australia received a ME163 after War end...

https://youtu.be/C2oDLSw3ToM?si=PewS-zYg7VF-imnP&t=873

What happened to it?

Saw there is interest from shine lawyers to investigate feasibility of class action into 3m hearing pro. I wonder if you are a part of this, you become ineligible for DVA? Or, if you've already claimed DVA can be done for fraud for double tapping on the same impairment. Does signing for the (DVA) payout preclude any further action on that issue? It may be in the small print, I'm not sure.

Thoughts?

https://www.shine.com.au/service/class-actions/adf-3m-combat-earplug-class-action#what-is-the-class-action-about

Just a quick question/discussion.

I am currently looking at corps transferring and would like to get started on some DVA claims however am hesitant to because I don’t want to see my Corps transfer getting denied because of these claims. Does anyone have experiences or wisdom they’d like to share ?

if they instead picked diesel electric, they can go much quieter cuz of air independent engines like the swedish stirling engine. so why pick a nuclear sub that is more noisy?

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