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They are moving into the Freyberg building which is behind Defence House. I wouldn't be to keen on being in the Freyberg Building during a quake. I used to be on the 10th & 11th Floors and it used to sway in the wind which didn't worry me. However after living through the Christchurch quake sequence I would be that keen to be on those floors again at the present time.
I remember Freyberg house being opened when I was in D Eng. we never moved in while I was there. I would not be to concerned Ngarti, after all it is still standing while Defence house is coming down. Maybe the swaying is what saved it. Flexibility. May need to issue sedatives to the residents.
Rum, navy rum. Double tot please
Unfortunate that this would happen, especially with all the defence projects in the pipeline now, hopefully this wont delay or disrupt things too much.Was anyone hurt in the building?Rum, navy rum. Double tot please
Why would you want to move NZDF HQ and the Ministry Of Defence 500km from the political centre of the country? It is the manner and form of mitigation that counts.
are they all sitting inside a common caldera?
With regard to the Auckland ones, no I don't think so because they are all appear to be individual cones. I used the term vent because I think that the magma source may be the same hot spot due to their spatial distribution. The last eruption was about 500 - 600 years ago when Rangitoto erupted, forming the island. The Taupo caldera is the current lake itself.
No. The Auckland volcanoes are what is known as a volcanic field and is supplied with magma from a hot spot that is quite deep (!00km in this case) When the magma surges to the surface it usually forms a new cone. It is very rare for a new eruption to happen at an existing cone. In the Auckland case the field is fairly young so is likely to continue to have eruptions and each succeeding eruption has been bigger than the previous eruption. It has been estimated that we could get as little as 24 hrs notice of an impending eruption and will not know precisely were it will occur.
Lloyd Burr: Labour/Greens will decimate the Defence Force
I think la-la land is the right description, bet they would be the first to jump up and down if NZ could not join in a number of international HADR, peacekeeping and armed interventions if Kiwi nationals lives wee at stake. I think someone from Canberra needs to send a memo saying you are on you own if you don't replace the kit.
Typical of Labour/ Greens to pull a stunt like this. No situational awareness of the current unrest going on. Certainly wont get my vote.
The only Kiwis on the raids would've been NZSAS so the leakers would not be them. They take their security very seriously even after they leave the NZDF. If it was some other NZDF personnel then they were not on the raids and they are, at best, only providing hearsay evidence which is not admissible in a court of law, unless they can provide primary source documentary evidence, i.e., the original patrol reports. So who did they talk too? They should cite their sources in a case as serious as this, but they won't because that would most likely weaken their case substantially. They claim that their military sources are 20 people comprising of NZ and Afghan military personnel. IMHO the latter's testimony should be regarded as suspect because of doubts regarding where their loyalty lies. They should state definitively how many NZDF personnel they spoke too.
So Hager and Stephenson may have just picked a fight that they are not going to win.
And I call bull sh*t no NZDF person would go near Nicky Hager with a 30 foot pole, Group guys, support & HQ staff will take the secrets to the grave as will everyone else who has held Top secret & above clearance in regards to the work they carried out.