Excerpts of remarks by Maj. Gen. J.M. Connolly, Commander Australian Theatre, when interviewed by Lt. Cmdr. Tony Franklin, RAN aboard HMAS Perth (D-38), during TANDEM THRUST 99.

"I've come up to see once again the way the United States puts together a joint task force, to give us a better idea of being able to do the exact same thing ourselves, which we are going to do for the first time later this year in exercise CROCODILE.

"I think the biggest lesson is the organization of C3I, to combine the efforts of the Navy, Army and Air Force in our case, and to do that in a way that all commanders have all the right information, at the right time, in order to make the whole thing fight."