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www.military.ie the defence forces magazine | 5 Manager Capt Declan Barrett info@military.ie 045 44 5306 Editorial Staff Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald Sgt Karl Byrne magazine@military.ie 045 44 5307 Connect Cpl Paul Millar connect@military.ie 045 44 5307 Photographer Cpl Neville Coughlan photo@military.ie 045 44 5307 Subscriptions Cpl Kelly Gallagher 045 445312 subs@military.ie Magazine Archivist Mr Sean Shinnors DF/PR Information: Cpl Kelly Gallagher admin@military.ie 045 44 5308 DF Webmaster Sgt Mick Burke 045 445309 webmaster@military.ie Designer/Advertising JM Publishing & Media, Arklow, Co. Wicklow,Ireland Tel: +353 1 443 3476 Tel: +353871344135 Web: www.jmpublishing.ie Email: info@jmpublishing.ie Printer Turner's Printing Co., Ltd The fact that an article appears in this magazine does not indicate official approval of the views expressed by the author. © Published by OiC Public Relations Branch for the Defence Forces at DFHQ, Block 5, Ceannt Bks, DFTC, Curragh Camp, Co Kildare, Ireland. Tel: 045 445312 Front Cover Photo by Cpl Colin Delany taken on the DF PR Photographers course showing the use of artificial light. For more Defence Forces photographs, checkout: www. flickr.com/photos/dfmagazine W elcome to our September issue, where we bring you a 40-pager and a pullout poster featuring LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61). This month's photos for On Parade come from the north and south of the country, Donegal to Cork. Our In Focus pages look at our Veterans, page 8 has a compilation of WWI and Remembrance Day photographs from around the country and across Europe, and page 9 features members of the Irish UN Veterans Association. Our first main feature by Lt Aoife Shanley is about her experiences at this year's Exercise 'Arduous Serpent', the British army's annual medical services tactical training competition. Next, Lt Cdr Tony O'Leary brings us up-to-date on the Naval Services latest addition LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61). In Enhancing Force-Protection, Capt Diarmuid O'Flynn looks at how the DF has developed our C-IED capability with the first Weapons Intelligence Team (WIT) course. In Humanitarian Response, Cpl Paul Millar and myself met up with two retired DF members who in 2000 volunteered to work in Mozambique for the international humanitarian agency GOAL. In Through the Lens, read how and why 12 members of the DF were trained as Public Relations photographers - the fruit of which is this month's front cover. In our In Reserve feature The Baker's Dozen, we see how 1 CIS RDF provided exercise communications support to other units under the single-force concept. In the first of our extended History section this month, Terry McLaughlin continues on the 100th anniversary of WWI with his feature The Meat Grinder. Our second history piece is on USN Commander Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough and the War of 1812. In Sport, we have the DF Track & Field Championships 2014 held in the Watershed Stadium in Kilkenny in June and UNIFIL 5km Race held in Shama, Lebanon in July. On page 35 we have a small piece on the Public Engagement and Access Plan (PEAP), which is a Working Group convened to develop Defence Forces' engagement in civil society and communities throughout the state. Plus we have all our regular features – Military Media Round-Up, Tac-Aide, Gear Review, Noticeboard, Reviews and What I Do. editorial Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald - Editor Fond Farewell On Tuesday 8th July in Ceannt NCOs Mess, DFTC a farewell function was held for three leaving members PR Branch. Pictured (l/r): Journalist Wesley Bourke (retd), Lt Col Mick Dawson (OIC PRB), Cpl Noel Coss (retd) and Comdt Denis Hanly (starting the C&S Cse). Photo: Cpl Neville Coughlan dF race day The Defence Forces race day took place in the Curargh Racecourse on 20 July 2014. Proceeds from the race were donated to the Defence Forces Benevolent Fund and the Organisation of Ex-Servicemen & Women. Picture shows COS Lt Gen Conor O'Boyle presenting the Defence Forces annual trophy to the winning owner Mrs Jackie Bolger. Also in the photograph are (l/r): Lt Col Mick Dawson (OIC PRB), Kevin Manning ( jockey), Mrs June Judd ( joint owner) and Col Tom Aherne (EO DFTC). Photo: Sgt Karl Byrne (PR Br)

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