S 1 Operation Slipper

Warlike Service - War on Terrorism

On 7 December 2001, the Minister for Veterans' Affairs for and on behalf of the Minister for Defence, determined that service rendered as a member of the ADF allotted for service on or after 11 October 2001 with OPERATION SLIPPER is warlike service for the purposes of subsection 5C(1) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

• Specified area number one is bounded by the following geographic coordinates:

48 00N 81 00E

48 00N 35 00E

12 00N 35 00E

12 00N 81 00E

• Specified Area number two includes the Diego Garcia land mass and territorial waters, plus airspace of Diego Garcia out to 250 nautical miles radius (from Reference Point 07 18.6S 072 24.6E).

View copy of instrument in the Service Eligibility Assistant in the Legislation Library here.

Operation Slipper Specified Area

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Operation Bastille (January 2003 – March 2003) was an operation conducted within Operation Slipper. Bastille was the condename for the operation to deploy force elements and prepare for possible combat operations in Iraq. The preparation supported the United Nations' disarmament efforts by contributing to the pressure on Iraq to comply with its international obligations to end its program of weapons of mass destruction. When the Australian Defence Force commenced the offensive operations against Iraq as part of the coalition led by the United States, Operation Bastille ceased to be a part of Operation Slipper and became Operation Falconer.