EX RIMPAC CANTERBURY assists in Humanitarian disaster relief
3,038 views · Published 26 July 2014 · 2:51 · Indexed 19 October 2026
Channel: NZ Defence Force · 2014 · News & Politics
HMNZS CANTERBURY has been playing a vital role during the Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief scenario within Exercise RIMPAC. The scenario consists of a country called Griffin, which has suffered flooding and a subsequent hurricane. HMNZS CANTERBURY has assisted with the movement of stores and supplies to land and utilised it’s hospital to treat casualties. They are in Hawaii as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) the world's largest maritime military exercise involving 22 nations and more than 25,000 personnel. The New Zealand Defence Force is also contributing the HMNZS CANTERBURY, a P-3K2 Orion aircraft with supporting personnel, and the Operational Dive Team and a Mine Countermeasures Team based out of San Diego. There are more than 250 NZDF personnel participating in this six-week-long exercise, which covers a wide spectrum of military training activities ranging from Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief to complex war fighting
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