Air Commodore Michael Patterson
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13 appearances
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first heard Aug 2016
last heard Aug 2016
Air Commodore Michael Patterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Everyone would be aware that the Australian Defence Force has been participating in operations in the Middle East over a range of time.
Defence Force.
So we've seen frozen blood used in the operational settings in the Middle East, but our real first exposure to it in a practical sense was with the Dutch in Tarrancout in Afghanistan.
We already knew that they had a capability with some components of frozen blood, so it was a matter of just seeing if in partnership we could continue to develop that.
took to the field.
On two occasions now we've conducted some control field testing up in Ogra in Queensland and we did both those field trials late last year.
We were so excited about the sites we'd overlooked the fact that we would on occasion perhaps need to do it in a field setting where we were working under red light.
So we're completing some certification on our aircraft to make sure our freezers will work over the long duration of flight.
Once that's done, then our next step is taking the products in a freezer and transporting them a long distance, perhaps into the Middle East, and to Thor and use the product.
So at that point it will become part of our inventory.
I'm personally keen to try and test the culture.
chain before the end of this year.
Certainly we want to be at full operating capability by the end of next year.
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