Post by vgp on May 13, 2008 12:44:31 GMT 12
Army Exercise in Lower North Island
12 May 2008
The NZ Army will be training in a town near you as soldiers test their specialist trade skills in an exercise taking place over the lower North Island from 20 May to 16 June.
The exercise involves soldiers from the Logistics Operations and Trade Training Schools as they practice and are assessed on their specialist functions in the field environment.
During the exercise the main areas where soldiers will be concentrated when not based at Linton and Waiouru Army Camps will be near Raumai, Levin, Woodville and Masterton.
Specifically, the following areas will be utilised by period:
28 May - 4 Jun: Tangimoana, Bulls, Santoft Forest, Marton, Wanganui, Foxton, Levin, Otaki, Pohangina, Makomako and Longburn.
5 - 10 Jun: Woodville, Masterton, Marima, Claireville, Carterton, Featherston, Tuaherenikau.
As the exercise will involve the movement of vehicle convoys by day and night, the blank firing of weapons and use of pyrotechnics, the NZ Army wishes to acknowledge the communities in which the exercise will occur for their patience and support.
ENDS
For more information please contact Bas Bolyn, Army Public Relations on 04 496 0285 or 021 478 574.
History: 'Exercise Benghazi Stakes'
Named Exercise Benghazi Stakes, the name of the annual NZ Army exercise originates from the North African Campaign between the Allied and Axis Forces.
From the December 1940 and November 1942 the shipping port of Benghazi was the prize at stake when motorized British Forces repeatedly raced across the Western Desert from the port of Suez to take this Axis-held port 1100km away. Several rapid armoured advances petered out and turned into retreats as the distances between supply port and front line became enormous.
The logistical challenge, nicknamed the “Benghazi Stakes” by British soldiers, was eventually won when some 1400 NZ Railway workers who had taken over the stations, engines, line maintenance and workshops of the Egyptian railway system began moving 4000 tonnes of war supplies a day across the desert to the front lines.
www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/media-releases/20080512-aeilni.htm
12 May 2008
The NZ Army will be training in a town near you as soldiers test their specialist trade skills in an exercise taking place over the lower North Island from 20 May to 16 June.
The exercise involves soldiers from the Logistics Operations and Trade Training Schools as they practice and are assessed on their specialist functions in the field environment.
During the exercise the main areas where soldiers will be concentrated when not based at Linton and Waiouru Army Camps will be near Raumai, Levin, Woodville and Masterton.
Specifically, the following areas will be utilised by period:
28 May - 4 Jun: Tangimoana, Bulls, Santoft Forest, Marton, Wanganui, Foxton, Levin, Otaki, Pohangina, Makomako and Longburn.
5 - 10 Jun: Woodville, Masterton, Marima, Claireville, Carterton, Featherston, Tuaherenikau.
As the exercise will involve the movement of vehicle convoys by day and night, the blank firing of weapons and use of pyrotechnics, the NZ Army wishes to acknowledge the communities in which the exercise will occur for their patience and support.
ENDS
For more information please contact Bas Bolyn, Army Public Relations on 04 496 0285 or 021 478 574.
History: 'Exercise Benghazi Stakes'
Named Exercise Benghazi Stakes, the name of the annual NZ Army exercise originates from the North African Campaign between the Allied and Axis Forces.
From the December 1940 and November 1942 the shipping port of Benghazi was the prize at stake when motorized British Forces repeatedly raced across the Western Desert from the port of Suez to take this Axis-held port 1100km away. Several rapid armoured advances petered out and turned into retreats as the distances between supply port and front line became enormous.
The logistical challenge, nicknamed the “Benghazi Stakes” by British soldiers, was eventually won when some 1400 NZ Railway workers who had taken over the stations, engines, line maintenance and workshops of the Egyptian railway system began moving 4000 tonnes of war supplies a day across the desert to the front lines.
www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/media-releases/20080512-aeilni.htm
