Talk:New Zealand Army

message: I propose to delete the M113 section. There isn't a commentary on any other equipment purchases and it is no longer topical. 203.97.94.1 21:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete M113 section 

message: Major equipment section needs work. The listing is inconsistent (quantities of some major items and not others) and incomplete (missing several vehicle fleets and suites of equipment).
I have seen an article in an Australian defence magazine saying that the NZDF has adopted the Heckler & Koch 40mm GMG & have also seen a photo of it as well. I have articles from the NZ Army News with the army's sniper rifle being the Accuracy International AW & according to the April 2009 issue, the SR25 is used by the NZSAS as a Marksman's Rifle.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.246.8.133 (talk) 20:26, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Lists or tables of major equipment holdings are standard in articles on armed forces (see, for instance, Australian Army, British Army and Russian Ground Forces), so the section should be updated rather than removed. The alternate approach, as used in the United States Army and United States Marine Corps articles, is to convert this to text. --Nick Dowling 07:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I suggest a conversion to text would work best. This avoides the problem with inaccurate quantities.Ross.browne 09:17, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Equipment Section 

message: Does the RNZEME still exist? No mention is made here of it. When the red sash for sergeants was dropped in favour of a NZ version did some corps or regiments retain it? Mention is made of a version of the slouch hat replacing khaki peak caps. Does this mean all corps now wear a slouch hat? Ozdaren 13:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As from 2012 the Lemon Squeezer has been withdrawn from general issue and is now worn only by such limited categories as colour guards. According to media reporting the retention of two traditional headdresses (Mounted Rifles slouch hat and Lemon Squeezer) was leading to confusion with both being brought to particular parades or ceremonies. Buistr (talk) 19:50, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions: RNZEME, Red Sashes, Slouch hats 

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message: The NZ Army's website states that most of the LOVs are unarmoured  support vehicles, but small numbers are armoured and/or special operations variants 
http://www.army.mil.nz/our-army/equipment/lov/default.htm I think that they belong under support vehicles, but failing that sticking them in the own category is probably the best solution. They're certainly not armoured vehicles. --Nick Dowling 06:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pinzgauers

message: I found this on the New Zealand MoD site. 
Does New Zealand now use them, or did they borrow some from the Americans whilst in A’stan? Any one know? Chwyatt 12:01, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They're not part of the NZ Army's usual equipment, so I assume that they've been borrowed/leased/purchased for use in Afghanistan. The NZ Army uses the Pinzgauer LOV in the roles the US Army uses the HMMWV for. --Nick Dowling 23:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thought that might be the case, cheers. Chwyatt 11:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[HMMWV]]?

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message: Anybody who could write a little (2-3 lines would do) etymology section explaining why its the only arm not prefaced by "Royal New Zealand"? Would best go directly under the lede. Ingolfson (talk) 10:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Same reason as for the British Army, I believe. Orpheus (talk) 12:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal New Zealand Army NOT 

message: Are there any statistics like total strength, total active/inactive, etc for this article? New Zealand Defence Force has its statistics... 118.90.44.104 (talk) 13:18, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statistics 

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message: After noticing this article was marked for clean up i have attempted to fix the issues. I have removed significant pro-nz bias from the article. I have also made numerous copyedits, but suspect i have not found everything.
There is also a largeamount of unreferenced material in the article.Retrolord (talk) 09:35, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A number of the changes that you have made appear contentious. The issue has accordingly been referred to the discussion page of WikiProject Military history for comment. Buistr (talk) 08:27, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete overhaul required 

message: The rambling and colloquial speculation about the terms regiment and battalion group being used interchangeably is simply wrong. Reserve units are battalion groups, now of multiple corps. Regiments are the arms formations, the term being used in accordance with army tradition. There is no ambiguity or inconsistency.Royalcourtier (talk) 01:10, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regiment/battalion group 

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message: Her majesty should be on there as Commander in Chief and then the govonor general Godsavethequeen001 (talk) 09:09, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The Governor General of NZ is the Commander in Chief of the NZDF, not the Queen: ,  (section 6) and . Nick-D (talk) 11:42, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: G'day, Nick, those references seem conclusive to me. This should not be changed, IMO. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 07:56, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her Majesty 

message: Please provide a reliable source that supports the assertion that it is the "Royal New Zealand Army" rather than continuing to add it back in. I have reverted your addition per WP:BRD, so please provide a reference. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 09:30, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Royal designation