1948 Naval Airmen Recruits 7 of the Original 1948 Naval Airman Recruits and their instructor following the launch of their book at the Fleet Air Arm Museum pose for a group photograph with the Commanding Officer HMAS ALBATROSS, Captain Robert Morrison, RAN and Mr Terence Hetherington - Fleet Air Arm Museum Manager (L to R) Captain Robert Morrison, RAN - Commanding Officer HMAS ALBATROSS, Mr Les Matterson, CMDR Ron Hay (rtd), Mr Ray Spargo, Mr Bruce Schmitz, Mr Len Murray, Mr Clem Conlan, LCDR Hugh Molyneux (rtd) and Mr Terence Hetherington (Photo by ABIS Craig Owen) Published by the Fleet air arm Association of Australia Inc Editor Ron Batchelor email
[email protected] Print Post Approved - PPO201494/00022 VOLUME 24 NO 1 2013 SLIPSTREAM MARCH 2013 SLIPSTREAM AUSSIES PART OF MULTINATIONAL COMMAND Lieutenant Commander Al Byrne (back row,third from right) and Lieutenant Kelli Lunt (middle row, second from right) stand with Commander Combined Task Force 151 Rear Admiral Oguz Karaman (middle row, centre) and personnel from the multinational Command Staff on the flight deck during their deployment. Officers from the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States also staffed the Headquarters. In a first for the Royal Aus- tralian Navy, two officers have completed their embedding as part of the Command Staff for counter-piracy operations aboard the Turkish Navy Flagship, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Gemisi (Turkish: Republic Ship) Gemlik, in the maritime region of the Middle East Area of Operations. Lieutenant Commander Al Byrne from HMAS Albatross and Lieutenant Kelli Lunt from NAVSTRATCOM joined the multinational staff of 19 from five nations to support the sea-based Turkish-led Command Headquarters, under the command of Commander Sekan Saral, for Combined Task Force 151 (CTF 151) in mid-September.