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Australian Defence Force members and Northern Territory Police cooperate to support the indigenous community of Binjari, near Katherine, in the NT

Having good boats to get your forces across rivers and lakes matters more than youd think. Heres What You Need To Know: The Mike boat, an all-metal vessel that displaced 30 tons, was developed to carry a single armored fighting vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. Some times called a “tank lighter,” it had twin diesel engines that made it quite maneuverable and therefore required a skilled coxswain such as Birkler to “drive” it. The craft’s 130-mile range also meant that it could sai...

The World Health Organisation has assigned new "labels" to key coronavirus variants so the public can refer...

Victorian health authorities have revealed concerning details about "stranger to stranger" transmission of COVID-19 that sent the state into a snap seven-day lockdown. COVID-19 testing commander Jeroen Weimar singled out Melbourne shopping centres as venues of most concern where transmission may have occurred through "very fleeting contact". "They dont know each others names. Thats very different to where we have been before," Mr Weimar said. READ MORE: Queues build at a pop-up COVID-19 test si...

Residents and staff of a Victorian aged care centre will be tested on mass after a close contact of a centr...

The Memorial Day weekend’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway is one of the most patriotic events in sports, honoring fallen soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. This weekend, Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), Smithfield Foods, and Aric Almirola will honor Master-at-Arms Second Class (MA2) Michael A. Monsoor, a Navy Seal from Task Unit Bruiser. Monsoor paid the ultimate sacrifice on September 29, 2006 during operation Iraqi freedom. When a grenade was thrown at t...

Mikey, mark, ryan, chris and seth. you did your first series on mark. this is about mikey. are you planning to write books to dedicate to ryan, chris and seth. >> i am, indeed. ainsley: tell us about these guys. im sure that is so difficult. these were your best friends. >> in our tasking at bruiser, we were in iraq in the battle of ramadi in 2006. it was really hard fighting. we took casualties and the army took casualties the marine corps took casualties we were in one big fight together. incr...