The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has welcomed again two ships and greater than 300 personnel to their house port of Fleet Base West, Rockingham, following a major interval of worldwide engagements. Provide Class Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) HMAS Stalwart (III) returned to its West Australian homeport on December 8 after greater than three months away, whereas Anzac-class frigate HMAS Anzac (FFH 150) arrived on December 6. Royal Australian Navy HMAS Stalwart carried out engagements with Japan, the USA, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, and Singapore as a part of a regional presence deployment and Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022 (IPE22).
Anzac Commanding Officer Commander David McPherson stated,“IPE22 was essential in deepening cooperation and enhancing relationships between Australia and our regional companions. The crew loved exercising and spending time with our regional companions within the Indo-Pacific.It’s tough to beat the connections which might be made via face-to-face engagement.”
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Stalwart Commanding Officer Commander Steve McCracken stated,”The crew was grateful to be on house soil. This has been HMAS Stalwart’s first abroad deployment. The busy deployment has been full of memorable experiences, comparable to replenishing the US forward-deployed plane service USS Ronald Reagan after collaborating in Train Eager Sword with the US and Japan. With out assist from house, our personnelwould not have been capable of do these deployments. Coming house to our family members is all the time particular.”
Stalwart and Anzac had been two of 5 ships within the IPE22 contingent that visited 14 nations, together with Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. The ships’ firms had been wanting ahead to spending helpful time with their households over the Christmas interval. The WA homecoming was a part of a wider return of RAN ships to their homeports over the course of December. HMA Ships Arunta, Adelaide, Hobart, and Brisbane will return to Fleet Base East later this month. These deployments adopted a interval of excessive exercise, together with the RAN-hosted multinational maritime Train Kakadu off the coast of Darwin, NT, and previous to that, Train Rim of the Pacific 22 primarily based out of Hawaii, USA.
