Christmas message from CDRE Daryl Bates
Channel: Royal Australian Navy
Date: 2013-12-20

Royal Australian Navy personnel from cities and towns across Australia will spend this Christmas serving on Australian Defence Force Operations around the world, including on Operation SLIPPER in the Middle East Area of Operations and Operation RESOLUTE across Australia's northern maritime border.

Others will keep watch in various headquarters around Australia this Christmas, to support their comrades serving in ADF Operations overseas and in the Australian maritime environment.

Our personnel deployed on operations this Christmas have recorded these messages for their loved ones at home.