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General Updates
September 3, 2017 Frank Rands

Medal Approved to Recognise Humanitarian Service

New Zealanders providing humanitarian services overseas in disaster recovery and other and dangerous situations set to get medallic recognition, after

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September 3, 2017 Frank Rands

Fort Dorset

Many Communicators found themselves on postings to Wellington unlike other branches of the Navy and many found themselves billeted at

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September 3, 2017 Frank Rands

US Navy Visual Callsign Book

Here is a link to the USN Visual Callsign Book  For those that are interested there are lots of visual

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September 3, 2017 Frank Rands

Operating with the Big Boys!! – Task Force 77

HMNZS OTAGO 1976 attachment to Task Force 77 When we arrived in Subic Bay we were assigned to Task Force

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September 2, 2017 Frank Rands

CAN YOU HELP?

Your Association has became aware that a fellow ex communicator is in an unenviable position. Ex Radio Operator, 1977 –

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September 1, 2017 Frank Rands

RNZAF SHELLY BAY

RNZAF Shelly Bay started off as a naval establishment and still has portholes in what was the main doors of

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September 1, 2017 Frank Rands

Combined Services Day @ Whangamata 2017

Here is an image taken very recently and yes there are some communicators starring!. Can you identify them? Sitting on

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September 1, 2017 Frank Rands

Some Communicators Here!

Here is an image taken in 1986.  A communicator is quite prominent in the image.  Who is the Reviewing Officer

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August 31, 2017 Frank Rands

A Question of Badges

On the top, we have a PO Sparkers badge and a POs rank badge that would be worn on No1

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August 31, 2017 Frank Rands

An Image from circa1943

Q1183 (later HMNZS Mako) on the left and Q03 Shenandoah on the right. Somewhere in the Hauraki Gulf circa 1943.

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