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Civil defence shares best practice
This year’s South Island civil defence and emergency management conference took place at Blenheim’s convention centre on 30 and 31 August. A wide variety of speakers shared their knowledge and experience with 140 delegates from around New Zealand, on the theme of recovery. The conference was generously sponsored by Brian FM www.brianfm.com/
Highlights included Marlborough’s resilient farmer Doug Avery, who talked about his personal journey dealing with repeated natural disasters on his farm, and senior US disaster communications expert Bob Jensen on improvements made to the US disaster response system since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.
The conference was opened by Mayor John Leggett and Civil Defence Minister Kris Faafoi, who outlined some of the changes proposed to the national emergency management system after the recent Government review.
Marlborough’s own ‘earthquake navigators’ Candi Callaghan, Flo Joyce and Chris Wilson talked about their experiences helping their communities in Ward, Seddon and Kekerengu get through the recovery process.
Each of the South Island’s six civil defence and emergency management groups gave an update on their area’s work over the last 12 months.
For programme and speaker information, check out www.marlborough.govt.nz/civil-defence-emergency-managemen...
08 March 2018, EU Mayors' Conference on "Building Urban Defences Against Terrorism"
Belgium - Brussels - March 2018
© European Union / Fred Guerdin
Sophie Linden, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, London
Conference
The EU is facing a dramatically aggravated security environment in the East and South of its borders. At the same time, the financial crisis has led to drastic uncoordinated cuts in the defence budgets of the EU Member States. The EU's ability to project power into its neighbourhood is weak, most of its CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy) operations are just too little, too late. While territorial defence of Western Europe continues to depend heavily on the US, several consecutive American administrations have been urging Europeans to take more responsibility for their own security within NATO.
The European Council has so far taken only small steps to encourage greater cooperation among Member States – clearly insufficient, if one looks at the alarming and deteriorating circumstances.
On the eve of the European Council on Defence of 25th June, ALDE will present its 'Roadmap towards an Integrated EU Military' to show the way how to achieve more European defence for less money, essentially by building an integrated European pillar of NATO.
The event will see a presentation of the roadmap by ALDE President Guy Verhofstadt, followed by keynote speeches by two ALDE Ministers of Defence and their former Finnish counterpart.
USS Mustin (DDG-89) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Mustin family who has devoted nearly a century of U.S. Naval service.
The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers (DDGs) is the United States Navy's first class of destroyer built around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function passive electronically scanned array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of World War II, and later Chief of Naval Operations. The class leader, USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during Admiral Burke's lifetime.
They were designed as multi-mission destroyers to fit the anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) role with their powerful Aegis radar and surface-to-air missiles; anti-submarine warfare (ASW), with their towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, and ASW helicopter; Anti-surface warfare (ASUW) with their Harpoon missile launcher; and strategic land strike role with their Tomahawk missiles. With upgrades to their to AN/SPY-1 phased radar systems and their associated missile payloads as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, members of this class have also begun to demonstrate some promise as mobile anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite weaponry platforms.
Some versions of the class no longer have the towed sonar, or Harpoon missile launcher. Their hull and superstructure were designed to have a reduced radar cross section. The first ship of the class was commissioned on 4 July 1991. With the decommissioning of the last Spruance-class destroyer, USS Cushing, on 21 September 2005, the Arleigh Burke class ships became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyers; the class has the longest production run for any post-World War II U.S. Navy surface combatant. Besides the 62 vessels of this class (comprising 21 of Flight I, 7 of Flight II and 34 of Flight IIA) in service by 2013, up to a further 42 (of Flight III) have been envisaged.
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Horse Sand Fort. One of the Solent Palmerston Forts. Currently derelict (maybe some pirates... see the flag)
A close-up of one of the concrete blocks showing the steel reinforcing that has been exposed by the spalling of the concrete.
Great open beach at Reighton, ideal for a good blast. Bempton and Speeton cliffs in the background.
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11th July, 2008. Australian Defence Force, Military Diocese's Wreathlaying Ceremony, held at the Australian War Memorial.
REF: PAIU2008/095.07
Czech Chief of Defence Lt. Gen. Josef Becvar visited Bagram Airfield June 2. Becvar received briefings on @Armáda České republiky (Czech Army)
-#US4A military partnership and toured Czech “Scan Eagle” unmanned aerial vehicle facilities. #TeamWork #ResoluteSupport (Photo by Kevin Walston, USFOR-A Public Affairs)
CONSTRUCTION OF STAFF ACCOMMODATION, GWARINPA ABUJA
Year of Purchase - 2014
Contract Value - N200,987,000
Cost of Purchase - N200,987,000
Market Value - N/A
Digging out the old Raw files from last year that I never got round to processing. This was taken at the Shoeburyness Defence Boom.
Ruins of the barracks at the Lei Yue Mun Fort now converted to the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence.
On 19 December 1941, the Fort fell to the assault troops of the Imperial Japanese Army which suffered only light casualties. That night, approximately 20 gunners defending the Fort were massacred by the Japanese troops at the Sai Wan Battery after they had surrendered.
Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese on 25 December 1941.