The Cove Podcast

ADF on operations - In episode six, Colonel Richard Vagg explains how the mission is progressing as the Task Group reaches the halfway point of its deployment.

ADF on operations - In episode five, we meet Lance Corporal Dylan Hart who has set himself the challenge of learning five new Arabic words each day as part of his mission to train Iraqi Security Forces.

ADF on operations. In episode four we meet Private Saatchi Siri who shares her experiences as an evacuation medic at the Taji Military Complex just north of Baghdad.

ADF on operations - In episode three, we meet Warrant Officer Class Two Adam Krongold who tells us how training is delivered to Iraqi Security Forces at the Taji Military Complex just north of Baghdad

ADF on operations - In series two, we follow the members of Task Group Taji IV as they complete their six-month deployment in Iraq. In episode two, we meet Lieutenant Colonel Chris Gardiner, the Commanding Officer of the Training Task Unit, Task Group Taji IV.

ADF on operations - 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 this first episode, we meet Captain Tom Wickham who tells us about the training delivered to Iraqi Security Forces at the Taji Military Complex just north of Baghdad.

ADF on operations -  In episode seven, the final interview before Task Group Taji IV’s arrival in Iraq, we learn about the Farewell Parade that took place at Robertson Barracks in Darwin on 11 November 2017. The Regimental Sergeant Major of 1st Armoured Regiment, Warrant Officer Class One Jae Robinson, shares his thoughts as Task Group members prepare to leave Australia.

ADF on operations - In episode six, we meet the Environmental Health Technician and hear about her background in the New Zealand Defence Force. She also shares her experience of the Christchurch earthquake.

ADF on operations - In episode five, we meet Corporal Kathryn Rooney and Private Hannah Mills from Health Company at the start of the Mission Rehearsal Exercise.

ADF on operations. In this episode the New Zealand Defence Force contingent performs a Haka on arrival in Darwin and Task Group Taji IV becomes a fully integrated ANZAC force.