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OVERVIEW
The Regiment and SME have been very busy the two last month.
We saw the deployment of another lot of Sappers to Afghanistan and the return home of
the soldiers they were replacing. Return of the Sapper section participating
in the Cambrian Patrol competition (International skill at arms competition
conducted in UK ). They came home with bronze
medals, an outstanding effort. SME won the 2nd Land Force Group
24 hour relay, this was a fund raising activity supporting one of our
soldiers diagnosed with terminal cancer. SME also won the camp swimming
sports. Change over of personnel at the De-mining Centre, Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri, USA . WO1 Colin
Williams returns and WO2 Mike Tait and family settle in for a white
Christmas
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ANTARCTICA
This
mission operates annually from Aug - Feb and involves teams of personnel
supporting Antarctic New Zealand and the US Antarctic Programme activities
in NZ and on the Antarctic continent. Personnel (incl. the McMurdo Terminal
Team and Scott Base support staff) deploy to Antarctica for approx 5 months
fm Oct-Feb (Summer Season) annually. Attachments to the Antarctic annually
throughout the season include Engineer Construction Teams.
SINAI,
EGYPT.
The charter of this force, which
is funded by the United States, Egypt and Israel, is to ensure the
observance of the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel.
Multinational Force and
Observers
(MFO) Sinai is a tri-service contingent of twenty-six NZDF personnel
deployed to the MFO. It comprises two Engineers, who manage the maintenance
of the MFO’s remote sites along the border.
AFGHANISTAN
Following the attack on Sep 11 2001 on the USA, a British lead mission was
established to ensure the safety and security of Kabul in Afghanistan. In
Jan 2002 New Zealand sent the first of its commitment to the force and a
further group of staff officers was deployed in Mar 2002 to the HQ
International
Security
Assistance Force (ISAF)
with one Engineer Officer as LO to UNEOD and another Engineer Officers in
Infrastructure/ Works. New Zealand has also sent a Provincial
Reconstruction Team (PRT) to Afghanistan to take over an already established
operation by the United States. The PRT is based in Bamain Province, and
included in the team are a number of Engineers who are working to better the
security and reconstruction efforts in the area |
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