We provide New Zealand’s land-based combat forces. We are sure you will be familiar with the role of the infantry soldier. But you may not know some of the other careers – artillery, engineering, logistics and communications.
Today’s soldier can call upon all kinds of kit to assist them - Light Armoured Vehicles (LAV), guns and high tech communications equipment. We certainly need it because of the wide variety of challenges that we are called upon to assist with. It can be anything from combat scenarios to peacekeeping and humanitarian aid, such as in the Christchurch earthquakes.