As we mark Remembrance Day, we're reflecting on a connection to military service that stretches back to our founder, Sir John Holland, who served with the @australianarmy's engineering Corps during World War II.
Part of that legacy is our long-running secondment program for @australianarmy engineers, which gives serving personnel the opportunity to broaden their engineering experience in an environment outside of Defence.
For Captain Darielle Corpuz, who currently serves with the Army's 19th Chief Engineer Works, that opportunity meant spending 12 months working on some of New South Wales' most significant infrastructure projects.
During her secondment, Darielle spent six months onsite at the Parramatta Light Rail Stage 2 Enabling Works before joining our specialist Lift and Shift team, where she's helped deliver some of our projects' most complex lifting operations.
It's a different world to her previous posting with the 1st Combat Engineer Regiment in Darwin, where engineering could mean anything from demolitions and rescue operations to helping troops get where they needed to go and turning river water into something they could safely drink.
When she returns to the 19th Chief Engineer Works at the end of her secondment, Darielle will take with her a year's worth of new experiences, perspectives and lessons from major project delivery.
“It gave me exposure to a level of project complexity I hadn't seen before and a much broader understanding of how major projects come together. One day I'll come back and I can show my family, my kids and my partner and say, 'that's a project I worked on.'”
Today we pause to remember those who served and sacrificed in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations, and honour all who have served Australia.
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