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1 Issue 218 FeBruary 2018Te KAHA TO CANADAAOTeAROA BADGeMANAWANui s image: The 100-sailor royal Guard of Honour march on to the Treaty Grounds on Waitangi : LaC Vanessa ParkerconTenTsNaVy TODay ISSue 218 201811 DirecTorYPublished to inform, inspire and entertain serving and former members of the rNZN, their families and friends and the wider Navy Today is the official magazine of the royal New Zealand Navy. Published by Defence Public affairs, Wellington. Navy Today is now in its twenty first year of expressed in Navy Today are not necessarily those of the rNZN or the are welcomed, including stories, photographs and letters. Please submit stories and letters by email in Microsoft Word or the body of an email. articles up to 500 words welcomed, longer if required by the subject. Please consult the editor about long articles. Digital photos submitted by email also welcomed, at least 500kb DeaDLines For nT 5Pm as FoLLoWs:NT 219 March issue 15 February NT 220 april issue 15 March NT 221 May issue 15 aprilSubject to :andrew Bonallack Defence Public affairs HQ NZ Defence Force Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand e: & LaYoUT:Defence Public affairsPrinT: as part of a Government multi-agency initiative the NZDF has changed to a single provider for all of its Print Services.

2 This magazine is now printed by Blue Star. Feedback to on the quality of this publication is To:Defence Public affairs e: careers: P: 0800 1 FOrCe (0800 136 723) aDDress?To join or leave our mailing list, please contact: e: 04Te KaHa TO CaNaDa06aOTearOa S BaDGe13rOTOITI S NeW COMMaND14 MaNaWaNuI S FINaL Day19 WaITaNGI Day26NO. 6 SQuaDrON BreVeT30 SeePOrT FeSTIVaL34 BuyING FIrST HOMe36 CHeFS IN WaSHINGTON26283yOurS ayecHieF oF navYrear admiral John MartinWe are on a journey to generate a world class Navy for a large maritime nation and 2018 is an important year in the development of our ability to compete and prevail, fight and win. We have started 2018 in a bit of a rush with a succession of large activities that have underscored your ability to conduct operations, support public activities and regenerate the crucial naval edge to advance our Nation s interests from the sea.

3 The Fleet Shakedown in mid-January did exactly what it was supposed to do turning our thoughts from holidaying back to the sea and the preparations for upcoming new cohort of officers and sailors joined the Navy at the beginning of the year and are well into their training. Theirs is a great gift of service that is willingly given to the Nation and which in turn deserves our strong and committed leadership. They will be aware of the great adventure that awaits them at sea and in the Navy and on behalf of us all I welcome to them, their support family, whanau and friends into our Navy adventures abound some normal and some not so. as usual we have set out on one of our more challenging tasks, the work up of Te MaNa in the east australian exercise areas. The generation of her combat capability is the core task for the whole Naval system.

4 We are all involved in one way or another, whether in the planning, preparation, maintenance, training or logistic support. The readying of Te MaNa to conduct operations so that she is able to be called forward should the Government require is a key competency of the rNZN. We wish her all the quite so usual Te KaHa has sailed, via Pearl Harbour, and now will be in CANADA to undergo the Frigate System upgrade. If ever there was an expression of the government s commitment to our Naval combat force, it is in the decision to upgrade these ships to be able to operate until the end of their design life. Te MaNa will undertake her upgrade commencing mid-2019. Once upgraded these ships will form the backbone of the Navy s combat capability until their replacements a decade plus from fleet is changing too. MaNaWaNuI has just been decommissioned.

5 She has been a stalwart when it comes to conducting diving operations and being a home to countless sailors and officers who have served our Navy well. I am looking forward to her early replacement. Meanwhile AOTeAROA is beginning to be fabricated in South Korea in preparation for her launch in 12 number of operations in support of a variety of government agencies are under way and our job is to help them achieve their mission. agency partners such as GNS, Department of Conservation, MFaT, Customs and MPI are all enabled by our people with their ships, boats and aircraft. I am proud that we were ready to deploy to Tonga and thankful that our well-regarded services of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief were not needed this time. Over the last few weeks we have also supported events at Waitangi, auckland anniversary weekend and the commemoration of the Napier earthquake allowed us to showcase our Navy to the community.

6 The feedback about our guards, Cultural groups, Band and hospitality has come from all quarters including Her excellency the Governor General, politicians, Iwi, local leaders and the public and has been extremely positive. Thank you and well done! Its important that we are engaged, seen to be relevant and considered credible by our community. We operate in a society that expects that our individual and collective behaviour will be beyond reproach. In 2018, like last year we will work to create a Navy that reflects our society. We are recruiting a diverse range of people. We will celebrate your successes, whether it be conducting anti-drug operations, patrolling our eeZ, being recognised for individual excellence. We will takes complaints about poor behaviour seriously and actively address bullying and anti-social behaviour. We will treat everyone fairly and increase female participation in senior leadership , I want to assure you that as the senior leader in the rNZN, I am championing the need to make an enjoyable and respectful place to work.

7 I am not satisfied with our organisational culture and I am looking at all options to improve it, including reinforcing those parts of our institution that have been weakened. I will prosecute those who fail in the basic precepts of self-leadership and who do not abide by our behavioural expectations. We are willing to change and we are not doing enough. In 2018 I will continue to go after aberrant and unacceptable behaviour. Join me to do the same! I will support those who complain, champion change or find themselves outside our system and I will support those who do likewise. Think about how we can be better and support me and our Navy to do more than talk the ayea J O MarTINC hief of Navy4Te KaHa TO CaNaDaOn 9 February HMNZS Te KaHa took a major step forward on her Frigate Systems upgrade journey with lockheed Martin CANADA , departing auckland for esquimalt, is destined for Phase 3 of the upgrade, the installation of the equipment.

8 Phase 1 encompassed the design, while Phase 2 involved the purchasing and building of the equipment, now ready and waiting at the Seaspan shipyard in esquimalt. This includes new radars, electronic detection equipment, self-defence missile system, missile and torpedo decoys and an upgrade to the hull-mounted sonar. Te KaHa will be ready for tasking from May 2020. Te MaNa will follow, with her completion scheduled for May upgrade replaces combat system equipment that is now 20 years old and is difficult to maintain and keep effective against current and emerging threats. The work is similar to frigate upgrades for CANADA and the uK, and to australia s anzac-class Thompson, who has since handed over the XO position to Lieutenant Commander rob McCaw, says the ship sails with a reduced crew. We re not conducting the same level of operations as we would with a south-east asia or Pacific deployment.

9 Our focus is getting to CANADA safely. Once at esquimalt, the main focus will be to de-store the ship, as much as possible. We ll secure a lot of items, but everything that can be removed, will be removed, even in areas that aren t being upgraded. There s going to be cabling through areas, a lot of welding. It s like handing over the keys to your house to someone else, so everything that s not required to be there, will be gone. The de-storing will take about two months, then the ship is formally handed over to lockheed Martin and the majority of the crew return to New Zealand. Over the year-long upgrade, the crew will be getting training in the new systems. The training will be immense, says LTCDr Thompson. I ll be involved in it. and this crew will be the first to do it. There won t be any old, experienced hands looking over them. These will be the first guys to know it all.

10 Ironically, Te KaHa, LTCDr Thompson and her current Commanding Officer, Commander Steve Lenik, have all been to CANADA together before, when Te KaHa took part in the 100th anniversary of the royal Canadian Navy in 2010. Internal CommunicationsInertial NavigationSonar UpgradeGun Control InterfaceFloating Missile DecoyCombat Control SystemMissile Decoy LauncherTorpedo Detection and Decoy SystemSurface Surveillance RadarShip to Ship Data LinkAircraft Identification SystemSurveillance RadarNavigation RadarNaval Laser Warning SystemAir Defence MissileInfra Red SurveillanceIt s like handing over the keys for your house to the builders, says TE KAHA s Executive Officer, Lieutenant Commander Tuijo CommunicationsInertial NavigationSonar UpgradeGun Control InterfaceFloating Missile DecoyCombat Control SystemMissile Decoy LauncherTorpedo Detection and Decoy SystemSurface Surveillance RadarShip to Ship Data LinkAircraft Identification SystemSurveillance RadarNavigation RadarNaval Laser Warning SystemAir Defence MissileInfra Red SurveillanceBy andrew BonallackTe KAHA s uPGRADe iN CANADA5Te kaha To canadaInternal CommunicationsInertial NavigationSonar UpgradeGun Control InterfaceFloating Missile DecoyCombat Control SystemMissile Decoy LauncherTorpedo Detection and Decoy SystemSurface Surveillance RadarShip to Ship Data LinkAircraft Identification SystemSurveillance RadarNavigation RadarNaval Laser Warning SystemAir Defence MissileInfra Red SurveillanceInternal CommunicationsInertial NavigationSonar