#MerryChristmas !! 🎅🎄🎁

▶️ Yule love this Christmas cheer from a few our people serving in the Middle East today. There are currently around 1500 #YourADF personnel deployed to the region supporting #OpHighroad , #OpAccordion , #OpOkra and #OpManitou .

#AusAirForce

This ANZAC Day, #YourADF personnel across Australia and serving around the world, including those deployed to Headquarters Middle East on #OpAccordion will commemorate ANZAC Day through dawn services and commemorative services as a mark of respect to those who have served.

Deployed to the Middle East on #OpAccordion , #AusNavy Chief Petty Officer Grant Bottecchia is taking time out this #RemembranceDay to acknowledge his great uncle who served in World War II, and all those who served in past conflicts, on operations overseas & on home soil.

During their temporary stay at ADF Middle East, evacuee children from Afghanistan drew pictures expressing their thoughts. #YourADF personnel on #OpAccordion had the opportunity to reflect on the their role during the recent evacuation operations whilst viewing the drawings

Welcome home #AusNavy team from Force Communications Element 1 in Mid East on OpAccordion #workingNavy #ADFonOps

Head over to our Facebook page to see more video messages of #YourADF service women & men deployed on #OpAccordion in ADF Middle East celebrate their dads - & celebrate being a dad - this Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to all. 🎥 ... fb.watch/7PkXOCW8kf/

#WeWillRememberThem

#YourADF members reflect on the fallen to commemorate #RemembranceDay while deployed on #OpAccordion in the Middle East region.

#AusArmy #AusNavy #AusAirForce

🎥 Hear from #YourADF personnel discussing their roles on #OpAccordion , an overarching support mission to ADF operations and activities in the 📍 Middle East region. #OpAccordion also enables contingency planning and enhancement of regional relationships. 👏

1/2 . I recently had the opportunity to see an old friend whilst visiting #YourADF personnel currently deployed on #OpAccordion and #OpAugury in the Middle East Region . Many coalition personnel who have deployed here would know Eileen from ‘BEAN around the MEAO’ coffee shop.

Corporal Margaret-Rose Nansen is a Personnel Capability Specialist deployed with the Air Task Group (ATG) at the main ADF operating base in the Middle East.

READ her story here: ow.ly/VKAg50xIsKb

#OpAccordion #ThisIsMyMission #YourADF #RoyalAustralianAirForce

Flight Lieutenant Rachel Morris is a Personnel Capability Officer (PCO) with the Air Task Group (ATG) at the main ADF operating base in the Middle East.

READ her story here: personnel.ow.ly/iyfF50xIsKD

#OpAccordion #AusAirForce #YourADF #ThisIsMyMission

Keeping communications open 💻

Able Seaman Akshay Gomez-Jackson's role is essential to making sure the deployed communications network is up and running, ensuring #YourADF have the ICT services they need while deployed to #OpAccordion .

Read more at: spr.ly/6012Oj7do

🎥 Watch how the 'Sessions in the Sand' podcast is entertaining and telling the stories of #YourADF deployed on #OpAccordion in the Middle East. 📻🎙️

📖: bit.ly/3Dehn7G

Joshua Molloy is an Air Dispatcher deployed in the Middle East Region see here ow.ly/QNiR30i0ZiA to read his story #OpACCORDION Australian Army

Following a short but dynamic eight week tenure, Command of Air Task Group 630 has transferred from WGCDR Ric Peapell ➡️ WGCDR Alexander Cave. Peaps thank you for your leadership of Royal Australian Air Force aviators in ADF Middle East, & Cavey a warm welcome to #OpAccordion 👍

Leading Aircraftman Kamaljit Singh is deployed to the Middle East with the ADF’s Theatre Communications Group as a Communications and Information System Controller.

READ his story here: ow.ly/rvyZ50xKXV4

#OpAccordion #ThisIsMyMission

Congratulations Major Brett Pates! 👏

Clocking in more than 41 years of service in #AusArmy logistics, Major Pates is fortunate to be on #OpAccordion with his son, Lance Corporal Tim Pates to celebrate the milestone. ❤️

➡️ news.defence.gov.au/people/long-ar…

#DefenceJobs #TYFYS #YourADF

Last month Rear Admiral Michael Rothwell handed command of Captain Sean Andrews operations in the Middle East to Air Commodore David Paddison 🚢🤝✈️

Read the story 📖➡️: bit.ly/ChangeOfComman… #OpAccordion ADF Middle East

RT ADF_MiddleEast 'RT DeptDefence: Here's how Christmas celebrations went down throughout the Middle East Region yesterday ⬇️!

These holidays, around 1500 #YourADF personnel are deployed to the Middle East in support of #OpHighroad , #OpAccordion , #… '

RT ADF_MiddleEast 'Flight Lieutenant Rachel Morris is a Personnel Capability Officer (PCO) with the Air Task Group (ATG) at the main ADF operating base in the Middle East.

READ her story here: personnel.ow.ly/iyfF50xIsKD

#OpAccordion #AusAirF … '