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The scale of the challenge facing anyone seeking to rebuild New Zealand’s Reserve Force is far greater than previously understood. In previous articles, I have noted the overall decline in numbers and the significant movement of personnel from the Ready Reserve to the Standby Reserve. Several NZDF senior officers suggested digging deeper and official information act requests have revealed that the Reserve Force is a rapidly revolving door and total numbers are only holding up because of the high number of ex-regular force personnel who are transferring in.
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Read more: Reserve Force Now Largely Ex-RF
- Article: https://unclas.com/2019/12/06/reserve-force-now-largely-ex-rf/
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force Black Falcons aerobatic display team has been announced for the 2020 air display season, with five new members.
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Read more: New RNZAF Black Falcons aerobatic display team announced
- Article: https://www.contactairlandandsea.com/2019/12/04/new-rnzaf-black-falcons-aerobatic-display-team-announced/
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In 1996, Melissa Ross broke new ground as one of the first women to serve on a Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) warship on an operational mission.
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Read more: First female Commodore and Deputy Chief RNZN
- Article: https://www.contactairlandandsea.com/2019/12/05/first-female-to-be-promoted-to-commodore-in-rnzn/
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Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a crude oil tanker off Nigeria in an area where acts of piracy are on the rise, an official with the ship's operator says.
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Read more: Pirates kidnap Greek ship crew off Nigeria
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/pirates-kidnap-greek-ship-crew-off-nigeria.html
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If we had a four frigate navy we could send a frigate to help patrol the shipping lanes... which we use to import and export... So why aren't we... Wake up New Zealand
It is a huge area that a country with only a population of (at the time of writing) 4.8 million and a GDP of around 385 NZD billion (roughly $250 USD billion.) Now believe it or not New Zealand has been spending 1.3% on defence. Roughly $3.75 NZD billion dollars. There is also the 20 billion dollar injection over 15 years which works out to be around an extra 1.3 NZD billion a year. (but this extra money is set aside to buy the tools required and replace aging assets.
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Read more: Bringing things in to perspective
- Article: http://nighthawk.nz
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NEWS || We’re supporting the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade-led New Zealand Government response to the Samoan Measles epidemic, sending our Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules aircraft with medical equipment and 50,000 vaccines last Friday and our Boeing aircraft with 2784 kgs of medical supplies today.
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Read more: New Zealand Defence Force supporting Samoan measles epidemic response
- Article: https://medium.com/@nzdefenceforce/new-zealand-defence-force-supporting-samoan-measles-epidemic-response-fefdb89a56e6
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) last night welcomed home the second-last contingent of personnel who have been serving as part of the Building Partner Capacity Mission in Iraq.
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Read more: NZDF personnel welcomed home from second-last camp Taji deployment
- Article: https://medium.com/@nzdefenceforce/nzdf-personnel-welcomed-home-home-from-camp-taji-as-10th-and-final-group-deployed-8d795afa2d47
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- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
Tērā te haeata takiri ana mai i runga o Pukaha!
Ara tai uru, whai uru, whai uru!
Ara whai ato, whai ato, whai ato!
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- Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speech-2019-defence-industry-advisory-council-and-defence-employer-support-council-awards
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