He has been deployed to Afghanistan, East Timor, Sudan and South Sudan. <\/p>\n
During the Covid-19 pandemic he worked for almost a year as a task group commander for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) deployment to the managed isolation and quarantine facilities in the North Island.<\/p>\n
In 2022, he served as the deputy commander of the NZDF contingent to the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been privileged to have had opportunities to serve New Zealand and command our soldiers in a broad range of operational environments, each with unique challenges that will give real purpose to my new role in the Army\u2019s training system.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said these increased his awareness of the New Zealand Army\u2019s future challenges and the bigger strategic picture.<\/p>\n
Craw is originally from the Banks Peninsula community of Okains Bay.<\/p>\n
He joined the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps in 1999 after graduating from the New Zealand Commissioning Course at Waiouru Military Camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a 20\u2011year\u2011old I did not fully understand what I was stepping into when I joined the Army and moved to Waiouru.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut reflecting on it, I can see the community, lessons and resilience forged in those early years have served me well throughout my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
He takes over as ATG Commander from Colonel Lisa Kelliher, who is now the NZDF\u2019s defence adviser to Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cLisa\u2019s leadership of the Army Training Group and Waiouru Military Training Area has certainly left us well\u2011prepared and in a strong position for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has been deployed to Afghanistan, East Timor, Sudan and South Sudan. During the Covid-19 pandemic he worked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17623,8227,1975,1558,10040,165814,17436,165812,13973,209,647,10136,117,111,43,139,69,8812,165813,80],"class_list":["post-302332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-appointed","tag-army","tag-at","tag-been","tag-camp","tag-colonel","tag-commander","tag-craw","tag-ed","tag-group","tag-military","tag-named","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-training","tag-waiouru","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}