7RAR soldiers helping out locals

Soldiers from the 7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment Task Group and AusAID advisers inspecting a new boys school in Uruzgan province were on a special mission, April 27 2013. As well as inspecting the new AusAID funded Salambaba school in the Mirabad valley, the team aimed to make a dream come true for nine year-old Brisbane boy Mac Millar. Mac Millar’s goal was to donate soccer balls to kids in Afghanistan so they could share his love of football. With the support of Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Australian Defence Force logisticians he despatched 100 soccer balls for diggers to hand out in Uruzgan province.