60 deployments for success as they continued rotations and above all it demonstrated the value of a combined arms team as prior to this the artillery corps was seen exclusively as people who fired guns. MAJ Finney handed over to BC Craig Farini, who would see out the rest of the deployment and on February 21st 2000, the operation transitioned into the United Nations Transitional Administration East Timor (UNATAET) operation called Operation Tanager. The Battery then became the first RAA unit to serve not only on a UN operation, but also under UN command. The Battery provided the entire Civil Military Liaison element for the 5th/7th battalion for the duration of the operations.
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