As of that year, the F-35 was not expected to enter Australian service until 2018.
In over fifty years of Australian service, the Hercules have accumulated more than 600,000 flying hours.
She was the last of the Bathurst class to leave Australian service.
She was salvaged and employed in the Australian service.
This does not come without a price, and we are all conscious of the sacrifices made by the Australian armed services in international operations.
Following the war, Cutler began a long career in the Australian diplomatic service.
The first four will enter Australian service in 2014.
The F-111 was taken out of Australian service in 2010.
But he turned both education and the law aside to become one of the first Aborigines to join the Australian public service.
After briefly practising law he joined the Australian diplomatic service in 1975.