Current Deployments
The New Zealand Army currently participates in three major overseas deployments:
- Afghanistan - 225 personnel are attached to the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamyan Province. By late 2012, 10 New Zealand soldiers had lost their lives in Afghanistan. The Taliban commander believed responsible for at least four of those deaths was killed in a coalition airstrike in November 2012.
- Timor-Leste - An infantry company from 2/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment is deployed in East Timor under Australian command, as part of the ANZAC Battle Group.
- Solomon Islands - An infantry company from 2/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment is deployed alongside two Australian infantry companies as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands
- In addition, small numbers of NZ personnel are deployed on various United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world, and with the Multinational Force and Observers.
- On 4 September 2010, in the aftermath of the 2010 Canterbury Earthquake, the New Zealand Defence Force deployed to the worst affected areas of Christchurch to aid in relief efforts and assist NZ Police in enforcing a night time curfew at the request of Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker and the Prime Minister John Key.
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