The Cove Podcast

ADF on operations - In this final episode, Colonel Richard Vagg looks back on what has been achieved as the men and women of Task Group Taji IV complete their mission and prepare to return home.

ADF on operations - In episode fifteen, members of the Task Group reflect on their deployment experiences as they prepare to return to  Australia. 

ADF on operations - In episode fourteen, we visit the Anzac hospital at the Taji Military Complex to meet some of the medical specialists from the full-time Army and the Army Reserve delivering healthcare to the Task Group.

ADF on operations - In episode thirteen, we meet Major Brian Hickey, the Officer Commanding Task Group Taji IV’s ‘Advise and Assist’ unit. His team is on a mission to support Northern Baghdad Operations Command to prevent terrorist attacks and secure northern approaches to Baghdad.

ADF on operations - In episode twelve, we meet Sergeant Peter Papalia who is delivering training to Iraqi Security Forces at the Taji Military Complex just north of Baghdad.

ADF on operations - In episode eleven, we meet Captain Isabelle Cowley who tells us about the training delivered to Iraqi police at the Taji Military Complex just north of Baghdad.

Task Group Taji is a combined force of Australian and New Zealand Defence Force personnel that first deployed to Iraq in May 2015 at the request of the Iraqi Government.  In series two, we follow the members of Task Group Taji IV as they complete their six-month deployment in Iraq. In episode ten, we meet Craftsman Adrianna Rogers who tells us about her job as a heavy diesel mechanic in support of the mission.

ADF on operations - In episode nine, we meet a NZ Army soldier who provides force protection for the Task Group and has built a garden at Taji. He also talks about his Anzac heritage.

ADF on operations - In episode eight, we hear the story of two former school friends – one Australian and one New Zealander – who were unexpectedly reunited on deployment with Task Group Taji IV.

ADF on operations - In episode seven, Corporal Levi Stripp tells us about the medical training delivered to Iraqi Security Forces as part of the mission.