IRAQ

The Australian footprint in Iraq contracted on June 1 with the withdrawal of the Overwatch Battle Group West, leaving an RAN frigate and SECDET XIII as the only Aussie combat forces in Iraq........

RIMPAC

The RAN and RAAF deployed to Hawaii in force for Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2008 (RIMPAC08) - the world's largest maritime warfare exercise........

OP ASTUTE TIMOR

The Timor Leste Battle Group focus has changed as relative calm returns to the country after the death or imprisonment of the Petitioner rebels responsible for the February assassination attempt........

TALIBAN VALLEY

Australian Special Forces Task Group and Reconstruction Task Force Diggers expand their control into the Taliban heartland in the Baluchi Valley north of Tarin Kowt Afghanistan........

PITCH BLACK

TSingaporean, Thai, Malaysian, French and US Navy jets assembled in the Northern Territory for the RAAF's largest AirEx of 2008........

OTHER STORIES:

ADF COMBAT TOURS EXTENDED, HMAS WALLER SINKS OLD DDG, FIRST MRTT CONVERSION BEGINS, 8/9RAR COMBAT DEPLOYABLE IN LATE 2009, UK & NL BUY MORE BUSHMASTERS, RAAF HORNETS GET NEW RWR & JDAMS, MU90 TESTING, JASSM INTEGRATION, ARH TIGER HELOS DEPLOY TO NT BASE.

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