Picture Gallery: Aussie Troops in Afghanistan

news.com.au ^ | 2008-2010

[naturalman1975]

Afghanistan: Aussie and British gunners engage the Taliban. Australian Artillery Gunners in Helmand at Forward Operating Base Armadillo. Australian Artillery gunners, from the Darwin-based 8/12 Medium Regiment are deployed as part of the United Kingdom's Task Force Helmand. The 15 Australian gunners are with the UK task force under a bilateral arrangement to further enhance the training and experience of the Australian Army's offensive support capability. Picture: Australian Defence Force/ Gary Ramage

Afghanistan: SAS troops of Reconstruction Task Force 4 (RTF4), Australia's contribution to the Netherlands-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), on partol in Oruzgan Province, where a number of soldiers were wounded when ambushed by Taliban fighters. Picture: Australian Defence Force/ Gary Ramage

Afghanistan: From left, RAAF reserve Wing Commander Dave Scott from Lismore, a specialist anaesthetist at the Tarin Kowt hospital and Surgeon at the Westmead Hospital in Sydney, and RAAF reserve Squadron Leader Mary Lancake are part of the International Stabilisation Force at the field hospital at Tarin Kowt in the south of Afghanistan. Picture: Australian Defence Force/ Gary Ramage

Afghanistan: Soldiers from Mortar Platoon 2 RAR engage the Taliban with 81mm mortars. Special locating gear and the mark one eyeball have identified the enemy firing position or point of origin, known as the poo, and the mortars are clear to fire. Targets must be positively identified before the diggers can send any ordnance down range. The 81mm weapon has an effective range of up to four km, a lethal radius of five metres and a fragmentation radius of 25 metres. Picture: Australian Defence Force/ Gary Ramage

[naturalman1975]

A fair few more photos at the link.

[Billthedrill]

The one with the mortars is an extraordinary photograph. God bless the Aussies. BTT.

[airborne]

God bless and protect the Aussie military!

[pissant]

BUMP

[Mikey_1962]

God Bless the Aussies!

They are more American than many Americans I know.

One of the few countries to pony up in Viet Nam.

[Gay State Conservative]

Once again Aussie Diggers (and members of the Navy and Air Force) step up to the plate to defend freedom,peace and Western values....as they've done since the nation's birth.

(I'm humming "Waltzing Matilda"...the second best "national anthem" ever...in tribute as I type.)

[Leisler]