Anzac Day 2017: Pat McMahon, Inverell Australian Air Force veteran, recalls career, 9/11 and combat in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

Simon McCarthy
Updated November 6 2017 - 10:36am, first published April 22 2017 - 2:22pm
An F-18 fighter peels away after refuelling over the combat zone. Pat McMahon is the loadmaster, delivering fuel in the 707 airfcraft above.
An F-18 fighter peels away after refuelling over the combat zone. Pat McMahon is the loadmaster, delivering fuel in the 707 airfcraft above.

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IT’S 9pm in the Persian Gulf. The year is 2002. Australian troops based in Kuwait, the small Arab nation nestled at the tip of the Gulf, are engaged in Operation Southern Watch.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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