Navy Today editor RESERVE Andrew Bonallack explores how HMNZS UNIT have DELIVERS OLPHERT established a team of WEAPONS experts, combining school' expertise EXPERTISE 'old with new personnel to create the Naval Reserve Small Arms Training Team (NRSATT).
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Navy Today #281
Step back four years to 2019 and Operation Hiki Ano, the Navy’s concentrated effort to mitigate a substantial training backlog, is well underway. Defence Public Affairs and Navy Today have concentrated on the glamour options – HMNZ Ships CANTERBURY and WELLINGTON at sea, putting their crews through rigorous training – although coursework and classrooms on land get some publicity. It’s an exciting time, with future HMNZS MANAWANUI having just arrived in New Zealand. Deployable personnel, fit for sea service, is a priority. The ripe atmosphere of ticking as many boxes as possible lends itself to an innovation from the Wellington reserve unit, HMNZS OLPHERT. Weapons training and conversion to the Defence Force’s newest rifle, the MARS-L, and the Glock pistol, needs to be accelerated across all of Navy. The Deputy Chief of Navy approaches HMNZS OLPHERT’s
