Trooper David Delaney (Newcastle, NSW) on the Mag 58 atop of an ASLAV during Exercise Predator's Strike. Mid-caption: Units fr udes five Victoria Cross winners, battle honours from Gallipoli and the Western Front, Vietnam, Iraq, East Timor and Afghanistan, and its soldiers are poised and ready to respond to a range of threats and regional events on behalf of the Australian Government. Based in Darwin at Robertson Barracks, 1st Brigade is the Australian Army's light armoured brigade. More than 3400 civilian and military personnel support 1st Brigade at Robertson Barracks. (The 7th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment – including support elements from other 1st Brigade units – is based at RAAF Edinburgh, outside Adelaide, South Australia.) Exercise Talisman Sabre (11–29 July 2011) is a major bilateral exercise designed to train Australian and United States forces in planning and conducting combined operations in order to improve Australian–US combat readiness and interoperability. Photograph by LSIS Andrew Dakin 1st Joint Public Affairs Unit
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