Navy People: Adelaide from Adelaide – A “Success” Story
02 December 2010
Adelaide Lord grew up in Adelaide and joined the Navy in 2008 with hopes of seeing the world. She joined as part of the ADF Gap Year program after graduating from Urrbrae Agricultural High School in 2007. During her first year in the Navy, Adelaide was exposed to a variety of military training, beginning with completing 11 weeks at recruit school at HMAS Cerberus in Victoria; the course includes aspects of seamanship, drill and ceremonial, survival at sea and damage control, which Adelaide found both challenging and rewarding.
Following this initial milestone, Adelaide joined the crew Assail 4 onboard the patrol boat HMAS Broome. During her time with Assail 4 she completed boarding party training in preparation for her role in protecting Australia’s borders. At the completion of her gap year, Adelaide signed on as a Communications and Information Systems sailor.
Adelaide has a passion for travel. In her short career, Adelaide has served onboard HMA Ships Broome, Arunta, Manoora and Success and has travelled to many ports within Australia including Sydney, Newcastle, Perth and Darwin.
“I’ve been lucky in that in my few short years in the Navy, I’ve had the chance to visit many South East Asia ports, including Kota Kinabalu, Port Klang and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Makassar in Indonesia, and Singapore,” said Adelaide.
“While I love experiencing new cultures overseas, it really makes you appreciate what we have back home in Oz.”
But it isn’t all play, as a CIS sailor, Adelaide controls the ships contact with the command element ashore, as well as other ships in company. As part of her involvement in two South East Asian Deployments and several international exercises, Adelaide has communicated not only with Australian ships, but many foreign ships from countries including Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Adelaide loves the outdoors and enjoys that her job doesn’t mean that she is continuously stuck at a desk. Part of her core duties include communicating with other ships via flags and light signals. Adelaide concedes that her job is hard work, but it is rewarding and the experiences she has had along the way make her job exciting.
“In the near term, I’m aiming to complete the intermediate Communications and Information Systems course and be promoted to Leading Seaman,” said Adelaide.
“Ultimately though, I’d like to be posted to be part of the commissioning crew of one of the new LHD’s, either the new Canberra, or Adelaide which would be pretty cool”
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