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Article: Fed: Australian Defence Force units approved for pre-deployment
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- February 7, 2003
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Fed: Australian Defence Force units approved for pre-deployment
Key facts of Australian Defence Force units approved for pre-deployment
to the Middle
East through Operation Bastille:
* total of about 2,000 personnel.
* Squadron of 14 F/A-18 Hornet fighters and three C-130 Hercules
transports.
* RAAF reconnaissance team to prepare for deployment of the Hornets.
* Air forward command element to coordinate air operations with
coalition partners.
* Transport ship HMAS Kanimbla which left Sydney on January 23
with about 350 sailors
and soldiers, a Sea King helicopter, two army landing craft, army
air defence detachment
and a specialist explosives ...