SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-Working Hard,
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I’t been a bit of a tough exercise this Talisman Sabre ‘05. As you can see

we have been working our bums off for the whole thing. Hopefully the rest

of our trip isn’t this busy!



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POET Troy Dack

Well, that’s the better part of the year gone already. Things have really flown by this year, it’s quite surprising really.

Tomorrow I’m back to sea for another 5 months or so. Should be back in Sydney around November. Hopefully this deployment goes by pretty quickly. We’ve got a couple of exercises that we will be participating in, a couple of South East Asian ports and then a month or so of Op Relex, border enforcement patrols. Not looking forward to Op Relex, but the rest of it shouldn’t be too bad.

I might even be able to get in a few days of kite surfing, well, attempted kite surfing. Who knows, by the end of the trip I might actually be able to get up on the board!

I’ll try and post updates here every couple of days, it might not be too exciting but I’ll try and get some pictures here as well.