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Added 1 Nov 06  Belconnen Naval Transmitting Station (BNTS)
– social history project

Call for interested participants


BNTS, ACT (‘Bells’), is being decommissioned following the transfer of Navy HF radio operations to a joint service modernised high frequency communications system. The historical significance of BNTS has been recognised by the Commonwealth Government and the National Trust. BNTS is significant also for its associations with Navy personnel and members of the local community.

The Department of Defence is commencing a study for a social history interpretive project on the BNTS. The project will record memorabilia, and capture social and intangible values and stories of life and work at ‘Bells’, by means of research and oral history.

If you are one of the many Navy, former Navy or contract personnel who maintained, operated or lived at the ‘Bells’ facility and are able to contribute to a project to record the social heritage of the BNTS, please contact the Department of Defence to register your interest.

Interested parties can respond to the address below by email, post or fax providing contact details and a brief description of your connection with BNTS, ACT.

Kate Leane                                                             Email:     Kathleen.leane@defence.gov.au
A/ Senior Environmental Adviser                     Fax:         02 6266 8731
ACT/ SNSW DS
Department of Defence
BP9 – 2 – 29
Brindabella Park
Canberra, ACT 2600

 


Added 25 July 2006 RAN Vietnam Reunion 2007

The next RAN Vietnam reunion was held, once again in Coffs Harbour, from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 October next year, 2007.  The program was as follows:

Friday 12  

Meet 'n Greet at Coffs Harbour Ex-Services Club from 1700

Saturday 13  

Memorial Service at the Coffs Harbour Memorial at 1630

  

Dinner-Dance at the Coffs Harbour Ex-Services Auditorium at 1800 for 1830

Sunday 14  

BBQ Brunch at TS VENDETTA commencing at 1000

 


Torpedo Zapper

The link here will take you to the website of "New Scientist" and an article on zapping incoming torpedoes with a super sonar sound blast.  Click  here  to see the article.  Very interesting.


Get a name badge !!

Before going to your next local Greenies Meet&Greet in May or November, get yourself a genuine "Pussers Greenies" name badge to wear and help all the others to remember who you are (it will also help YOU to remember who you are).  First, you need to register by clicking here, then wait a day or so for the registration to be processed and after that, you can order a name badge from us.  Payment can be made by direct credit to one of our bank accounts, the details of which are on the order form.


See the latest on the Meet & Greets

The latest on the meet & greets just gone is on a special page called "Meet & Greets(either click the title or the button at the left).  Some news may also be on the "Feedback" page.


Relocated 15 February 2005 HEALTH WARNING - BERYLLIUM

This section has been relocated to our "Health Issues" page.
 


Modified 4 April 2006 MALAYSIAN MEDAL ISSUE

Here's one for we "older" Greenies . . . .  (those serving somewhat before 1966).

The new Malaysian medal (Pingat Jasa Malaysia) application forms are now available on the DVA website and we have also made all three available here.  There is the eligibility criteria, a form for a posthumous claim and a form for a claim from a person still serving, or now discharged.

To complete the application form, a lot of extra information is required, such as ships served on and actual dates served in the particular areas. All of this information is available on the Internet by going to the Veterans Review Board website and hunting around carefully to find your ship and the dates.  There is a link at the top right (the Navy anchor) which will take you to a list of RAN ships and their dates of Operational Service.

It may be an idea to print the information available from the website, and send it as a separate attachment together with your completed application.

We have received information that, if you apply for this medal and get a knock back from Pussers saying that you do not have the required length of service in the area, or for almost any other reason, you should appeal or object in writing asking (or telling) them that your calculations allow you to arrive at an entirely different answer.  Do this as soon as you receive your notification.  In almost all cases, this appeal has resulted in a change of "heart" by Pussers and the eligibility for the medal has then been approved.


Modified 18 November 08   March 2009 Meet & Greets

The Meet and Greets for Saturday 7 March 2009 will be held at mostly the same venues as used on previous occasions.  The venues and 2008 conveners are as follows - these conveners may change for 2009.  This is a preliminary list at present, until confirmation by the conveners.  Please check the pop-up from the home page closer to March.

 ACT - The Southern Cross Club, Woden  -  Roger Stewart   Ph:  02 6288 2798

 FNQ - At John Osborne's home - enquire via email  -  John Osborne   Ph:  07 4751 5024

 NSW - Granville R&SL Club  -  Peter McGurk    Ph:  0408 384 690

 NSW Mid Nth Coast - Sawtell R&SL Club  -  Pincher Martin    Ph: 0411 09 9103

 QLD - The Irish Club, Brisbane City  -  Kim Dower    Ph:  0417 736 942

 SA - NAA Port Adelaide  -  Rod Spotswood    Ph:  08 8353 4860

 VIC - Stella Maris Seafarers Centre, 600 Little Collins Street  -  Ian Benier   Ph:  03 9801 7165    Mob:  0428 581 939

 WA - Fremantle RSL, 81 High Street, FREMANTLE  -  Mel Smales  Ph:  0409 709 155