Staff and trainee officers at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) celebrated the birthdays of Navy and Army on March 1 with a cake-cutting ceremony and inter-service tug-of-war competition on the ADFA sports oval.
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Staring at a blanket of blue ocean for hours at a time, then-Leading Seaman Lawrence Sabadi pondered his life and choices.
It was watching videos of military flying that first piqued the interest of a young Lieutenant Jaime Spragge, who went on to qualify as a CH-47F Chinook helicopter pilot and earlier this year reached 500 flying hours.
Coming from a Defence family, Jessica Swan was thinking she would try another line of work.
At the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), young Air Force officers from across the country are proving that science isn’t just about lab coats and chemical experiments.
Flight Lieutenant Ben Lindsay’s enthusiasm for maths, science and engineering can be traced back to his parents, who are high school teachers.
The Royal Australian Navy’s Lieutenant Commander Josh Cowell gained amphibious warfare experience while recently deployed on operations in the Baltic Sea region with the Royal Navy Littoral Response Group (North) aboard HMS Albion.
Despite being told by her school’s career counsellor that ADFA was “only for boys”, four years later Flight Lieutenant Kaitlin Flynn graduated from the academy with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering.
A former New Zealand politician has made her mark at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), inspiring many attending women with her advice for aspiring young female leaders.
Future Navy engineers have been putting their knowledge to the test, completing work experience alongside some of the service’s most qualified personnel.