New Zealand Defence Force

Senior Warrant Officers In Leadership Workshop
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Senior Warrant Officers In Leadership Workshop

A two-day Senior Warrant Of­ficer (WO) leadership work­shop began at the WO and Sergeants Mess at Queen Elizabeth ...

NZDF Medical Officer Joins Australian Response To Fiji COVID Surge
NATION

NZDF Medical Officer Joins Australian Response To Fiji COVID Surge

Major Gough said that as a part of the AUSMAT team she will be responding to Fiji’s request for assistance and wil...

Southlander Gives Fijian Soldiers His Best Shot
NEWS

Southlander Gives Fijian Soldiers His Best Shot

As an armourer, he was initially meant to be embedded as a coach in the Royal Fiji Military Force armourer unit in w...

Fiji Defence Personnel Benefit From NZDF Training Team
NATION

Fiji Defence Personnel Benefit From NZDF Training Team

Two NZ Army instructors conducted a course for Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) infantry shooting coaches.

New Zealand Defence Training Team Gets Underway In Fiji
NEWS

New Zealand Defence Training Team Gets Underway In Fiji

This is the first time that such a large group has deployed to Fiji to team up to train, coach, mentor and embed alo...

Aerial Patrols Resume Following Concerns Of Illegal Fishing
NEWS

Aerial Patrols Resume Following Concerns Of Illegal Fishing

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-3K2 Orion will this week carry out aerial surveillance over the Exclusive Ec...

Nausori Highlands, A Perfect Setting For Kiwi Officer Cadets To Be Tested
NEWS

Nausori Highlands, A Perfect Setting For Kiwi Officer Cadets To Be Tested

Exercise Veiliutaki has seen over 90 New Zealand Defence Force personnel deploy to the Nadi region to support the tr...

Royal New Zealand Navy’s First Togan Warrant Officer Gets Special Meeting With King Tupou VI
NATION

Royal New Zealand Navy’s First Togan Warrant Officer Gets Special Meeting With King Tupou VI

“It was truly humbling. Tongan custom is to always stay below the King, so I made sure that I was bent to remain b...

New Zealand Defence Force Delivers Donated Equipment To Fiji And Samoa
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New Zealand Defence Force Delivers Donated Equipment To Fiji And Samoa

The aircraft also flew 34 members of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces band to Tonga, where they will take part i...

NZDF Finds Norwegian Sailor Safe In The Pacific
WORLD

NZDF Finds Norwegian Sailor Safe In The Pacific

The skipper was standing on the stern of his vessel waving his red jacket.

Editorial: New Zealand Works Harder To Maintain Positive Influence
Editorial

Editorial: New Zealand Works Harder To Maintain Positive Influence

Next week Fiji will welcome New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters. His visit comes at a time when ...

NZDF FINDS TWO MEN ADRIFT IN THE PACIFIC
NEWS

NZDF FINDS TWO MEN ADRIFT IN THE PACIFIC

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has found two men adrift on a boat in the Pacific, four days after two fisherme...

NZDF Trainers Upskill RFMF Personnel
NATION

NZDF Trainers Upskill RFMF Personnel

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is mentoring Fiji Peacekeeping School personnel, who are training about 150 tro...

Remains Of New Zealand Airmen Head Home
NATION

Remains Of New Zealand Airmen Head Home

In military tradition the Republic of Fiji Military Forces yesterday handed over the remains of two military personn...

NZ Navy Ship Helps Stricken Fijian Fishing Boat
NATION

NZ Navy Ship Helps Stricken Fijian Fishing Boat

Crew members of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Inshore Patrol Vessel HMNZS Hawea helped a stricken Fijian fishing bo...

NZDF’S Joint Pacific  Fisheries  Patrol  Successful
NATION

NZDF’S Joint Pacific Fisheries Patrol Successful

A total of 36 breaches were detected during the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) fisheries patrol over the past mont...

NZ Defence Force,  RFMF Work Together
NEWS

NZ Defence Force, RFMF Work Together

The New Zealand Defence Force will work with the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces to tackle transnational crimes...

NZDF Personnel Return Home After Humanitarian Mission
NATION

NZDF Personnel Return Home After Humanitarian Mission

Around 300 New Zealand troops, sailors and aircrew returned yesterday afternoon from a seven-week humanitarian aid o...

Thank you, New Zealand: Minister Seruiratu
NATION

Thank you, New Zealand: Minister Seruiratu

  The Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management, Inia Seruiratu...

NZ’s First Female  NH90 Pilot  Enjoys Mercy Help Flights Here
NATION

NZ’s First Female NH90 Pilot Enjoys Mercy Help Flights Here

Flight Lieutenant Penny Khull: It also gives me a reality checkof what we are here for. Seeing droves of Fijian chil...

Medics Save Diver From Bends Fatality
NATION

Medics Save Diver From Bends Fatality

A crew of an Australian helicopter evacuated a Vanuabalavu diver just in time to be treated for the bends at the Col...

Refurbished,  Classrooms Handed Over To Naiyala  Secondary School
NEWS

Refurbished, Classrooms Handed Over To Naiyala Secondary School

Two financial donors, Entec Limited and the New Zealand government, yesterday handed over the refurbished classrooms...

Prime Minister Visits Vanuabalavu On Board NZDF NH90 Helicopters
NATION

Prime Minister Visits Vanuabalavu On Board NZDF NH90 Helicopters

New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) NH90 multi-role helicopters took Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama to visit disaste...

Schools, Clinics Reopen With NZDF Help
NATION

Schools, Clinics Reopen With NZDF Help

A number of local schools and medical centres damaged by Tropical Cyclone Winston last month have now reopened follo...

Kiwis Waste No Time On Vanuabalavu
NATION

Kiwis Waste No Time On Vanuabalavu

The New Zealand Defence Force personal onboard the HMNZS Canterbury have wasted no time in its rebuilding works on b...

HMNZS Canterbury Arrives Today
NATION

HMNZS Canterbury Arrives Today

  The HMNZS Canterbury arrives in Suva today from New Zealand on her way to carry out disaster relief and rehab...

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