NZ Infantry, East Timor c.2000

Heya,

NZ Temperate DPM c/w UN brassard, belt order, camelbak.

Awesome set up mate! Any chance of a pic of the brassard?

Very nice DPM shirt -- I've not seen much NZ DPM out there; good stuff.

Heya Brassards used in Timor, I'm glad we adopted the velco Aussie patch system though.

Cheers bru nice brassards, thanks for putting them up, If you have anymore East Timor related stuff Id love to see it, I started to get into the Aussie involvement over there a couple of years back myself.
So i take it these brassards would be for the UNATET mission then? Did the Kiwis come over as part of the INTERFET mission in 1999 as well?
I can still remember like it was yesterday when we deployed over there was quite an exciting time I was 17 and still in cadets when our parent unit 41st Batt RNSWR went over in 1999, we thought It would be on for young and old.
I actually heard a great story not too long back about Timor, my uncle served in 2RAR/NZ in Vietnam and one of mates he served with was still in the army at this time and was on the then General Cosgrove's staff, and 24 hours before we went over the Timorese rebel leader flew into Darwin for last minute negotiations with Cosgrove, apparently one of the biggest insults in Timorese culture is to leave someone waiting, so Cosgrove left this guy waiting there for an hour or so before he went into speak to him and when he did finally go to see him he was quite pissed off, he went to jump up out of his chair and have a go at him and Cosgrove slammed his finger into his chest and pushed him into his chair and said I will be in Timor in 24 hours If you and your men arent waiting there ready to surrender when I arrive i will use the full force of the Australian Army to hunt you down and kill you all, And without saying a word he left, 24 hours later when the Aussie troops arrived in Timor the majority of the rebel militia were there waiting to surrender.

Thanks

I still have most of my uniforms from when I went there in 2007 when the troubles started again. By this time most of the patrolling was urban and we never really went on green hat patrols so most of us took the badges from the brassards and sewed them directly to the shirts, the battlegroup patch was a velcrod badge the Aussies let us wear.

nice webbing and brassards, still have mine from Batts 2 and 5, but my belt order is falling apart lol. You dont happen to to the person on the nametage in the last pic are you????

Yes fish ha, hows wibearia treating you??, when you get back down here I might ask you for a koha in sewing up a set of 90's canvas webbing - belt loops,velcro,fastex clips ect ect for the RDR's Bosnia cabinet????? please???, I have all the pouches ready to go.

Cheers
Trin.

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sweet as bro! Waiberia= cold and wet, how did you know it was me?????
Hows the boys doin with the earthquake?

Got anything i might like?

12 on 24 off but you alternate shifts so your sleep pattern is stuffed, but cant complain, nah bro just kiwi stuff all for the RDR.

sweet bro what sort of stuff and is it being donated is their a koha for stuff....

got alot of stuff from the batts and gyros

Hey Fish sorry for the late reply, cordon duty and battle prep for an ex in Waiouru next week, yeah trying to collect a uniform from each Op so if you have anything drop me a line through dixis.

cheers

wonderful!

2/1RNZIR wrote:Heya Brassards used in Timor, I'm glad we adopted the velco Aussie patch system though.

Hi mate, could you tell me what the triangle patch on the top rh Brassard is? Its one I've not seen before.
Cheers

Not 100% sure on this brassard but at a guess a tri service medical unit??

Lovin' all the kit you showed Mate, very nice

Thanks, belt order might be seeing its last days in the NZDF other than shooting teams and Mag 58 gunners, will post the new issue coyote brown vest rigs as soon as I put the thing togeather.

Cool , look forward to seeing whatcha got Mate