John's Navy News

Courageous Sailor Wins Top Navy Award Thursday, 15 March 2012, 4:59 pm Press Release: New Zealand Defence Force Media Release 14 March 2012 Courageous Sailor Wins Top Navy Award When a fellow shipmate was injured during the Navy’s response to the MV RENA...

Flying sorcery from Navy Merlins at world’s biggest submarine hunt off Sicily News Flying sorcery from Navy Merlins at world’s biggest submarine hunt off Sicily 14 March 2012 Two Merlins from 820 Naval Air Squadron in Culdrose flew a 2,800-mile round...

Law Pacific atomic test survivors cannot sue Ministry of Defence The mushroom cloud of the British H-bomb during a test at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. Photograph: Popperfoto Read by 31 people Remove from timeline Wednesday 14 March 2012 Court...

Mei decides to buy me a running machine so I relax in a massaging chair It feels good So I sit and watch doing some hard bargaining Mei is quite formidable when she is dealing wit bargaining She gets it down from 6,000 RMB to 4,000 RMB and signs the deal...

My first ship was HMNZS Kaniere and my first overseas trip was an Island cruise which included Levuka, the old capital of Fiji. It was very much an Island colonial type of town and something that had always intrigued me was the mystery of the Joyita....

Travelling with NZ Super - RNZN Communicators Association Blog Posted on March 3, 2012 I know this is not going to effect the younger members of the association, but for those of you who are about to tip over the edge and become eligible and for those...

Coughed and sneezed and wheezed and hacked during the night so this morning, I say I am fine but she who must be obeyed whips me off to the new Doctors clinic. Well it is a 4 storey building and gleaming throughout, had an x-ray, blood test and all the...

Had oxtail stew for dinner last night. Delicious but probably not to every ones taste.

Had oxtail stew for dinner last night. Delicious but probably not to every ones taste.

Air Force rescues fisherman at sea for a week MICHAEL FIELD Last updated 11:26 07/03/2012 Share Print Text Size SPOTTED: On a lonely expanse of the Pacific. South Pacific Sea Shepherd claims whaler shut down 1955 Pacific mystery to be finally marked Fiji...