Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Combat Team Waler - part of Overwatch Battle Group (West) 4, participate in a range day to allow troops to hone their skills in the application of fire control processes. Soldiers also practice the employment of Direct Fire Weapon Systems (DFWS) within a combined arms team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Combat Team Waler ASLAV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Australian Light Armoured Vehicles wait for the order to move into position for the beginning of a range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Australian Light Armoured Vehicles wait for the order to move into position for the beginning of a range practice. An up-armoured Uni Mog can be seen on the range with soldiers erecting Figure 11 targets to the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 A Private scans the range. Note customised camouflage on webbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 An 84mm Carl Gustov crew reloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 84mm Carl Gustov crews fire their weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Popping smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 An officer watches a Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicle prepare to relocate during a range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Private Stuart Sweatman carries his minimi F-89 off the firing point after completing his part in the range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Australian soldiers maintain a safety perimeter behind the firing point, while local Iraqis arrive to watch the Australian troops go through their firing range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 An Australian Light Armoured Vehicle idles and crew members wait for clearance to to leave the firing point after completing their live-fire range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Guess my name? Trooper Raymond Callow, an Australian Light Armoured Vehicle driver - peers out from his driver's seat during range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Private Thomas Dockery and Private Lukas Woolley engage targets to the front during a combined infantry and armoured vehicle range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Corporal Andrew Gellert waits for range practice to continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 An Australian Light Armoured Vehicle drives through smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Private Thomas "Blue" Kelsey reloads the main gun of an Australian Light Armoured Vehicle after completing a range practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 The 516 soldiers of Overwatch Battle Group (West) 4 are mostly drawn from units of the Brisbane-based 7th Brigade. The Battle Group is comprised of the Headquarters and Cavalry Squadrons of the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry), operating Australian Light Armoured Vehicles (ASLAVs); and an Infantry company from the 6th Battalion of The Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR) operating Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicles (IMVs).Combat Team Waler is named for a type of horse used by the Australian Lighthorse Units in the past. The name 'Waler' is derived from the term 'New South Waler', a horse bred in New South Wales, and Australia's first colony. It was coined as a term for colonial bred horses used both in Australia and as remounts for the British Army in India. Rajahs also bought Walers for military and recreational use such as polo. Walers, through the flourishing remount trade, were sold to India from the 1840's to the 1940's and were supplied to the Australian Army for the Boer War and World War I, where their feats of endurance and courage became legendary. Although again supplied to the Army in World War II, the horses were not sent overseas, mechanization having transcended their use.Below is Lieutenant Guy Hayden riding his gallant mare "Midnight".During the second battle for Gaza "Midnight" remained continuously under saddle for 7 days . Hayden rode "Midnight" in the charge at Beersheeba and both were shot as they reached the Turkish trenches however Hayden was not mortally wounded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eitze Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Hi Tiger-pie,very interesting photos of the exercise.But I am wondering - do you Australians wear nicknames on the uniform (post 17) ???Or has he got a twin in the same unit greetingseitze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Hi Tiger-pie,But I am wondering - do you Australians wear nicknames on the uniform (post 17) ???greetingseitzeIt is accepted, but not encouraged. Regards;Johnsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Ammunition reload for 12.7mm BMG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 (edited) Some things never change... Private James Somerville from Combat Team Waler waits with shovel in hand. Edited January 18, 2008 by Tiger-pie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Side view of an ASLAV showing the anti-RPG screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Again, from the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-pie Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Bushmaster on the move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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