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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, you might recall we spoke to the Air

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Speaker 1: Force and the Bravery Trust about a community event aiming

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Speaker 1: to raise funds for the National Military charity, and hundreds

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Speaker 1: were set to take part in the Dusk till Dawn relay,

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Speaker 1: including defense members from the twenty nations that took part

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Speaker 1: in Exercise Pitch Black. The run also aimed to start

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Speaker 1: conversations about the challenges faced when leaving the Defense Force.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line is the Bravery Trust

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Speaker 1: Chairman Steve Patrick.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Steve, good morning, It's good to be here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, lovely to have you on the show. How did

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Speaker 2: it all go?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Look, it was an amazing event. The top end

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Speaker 3: has a good relationship with the defense community. Generally we

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Speaker 3: all know about Pitch Black. We can all hear the

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Speaker 3: jets flying around and the run on Wednesday night and

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Speaker 3: Thursday morning was a lead into the Avery Trek event,

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Speaker 3: which is our big fundraising event for the year, and

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Speaker 3: it was one of our awareness raising campaigns that the

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Speaker 3: Air Force led to bring about a bit more knowledge

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Speaker 3: of what the Trust is doing and how engaging the

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Speaker 3: territory on these issues that the Trust is working.

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Speaker 2: So how many people took part in the end.

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Speaker 3: Well, we had from early beginnings it ended up being

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Speaker 3: we had thirty four teams from ten countries, so it

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Speaker 3: was several hundred runners in the end also, and their

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Speaker 3: initial goal was to put three thousand k's on the clock,

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Speaker 3: which is down to Allison back and I think I've

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Speaker 3: just got the numbers in front of me here. I

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Speaker 3: think they cooked over just over four thousand k's. A

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Speaker 3: massive effort.

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely massive and for such a wonderful, wonderful.

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Speaker 2: And worthy cause.

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Speaker 1: Any ideas or any idea who clogged up the most kilometers?

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Speaker 2: Was there any standout performances.

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Speaker 3: Well there were, Look, the whole event was a standout

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Speaker 3: of it had such great energy. We had teams from

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Speaker 3: the UK, the Kiwis, we had Indian, Philippine, Singapore and

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Speaker 3: Indonesian teams. Australians obviously there was great energy, a lot

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Speaker 3: of great relationships where were formed and betted down from

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Speaker 3: the exercise. But a couple of standards yet we had

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Speaker 3: the Nadia Curry from the Kiwi Air Force did an

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Speaker 3: amazing job there each lap with two point four k's

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Speaker 3: and she got the record for the most laps and

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Speaker 3: ended up doing eighteen point twenty five k's on the.

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Speaker 2: Ven wows and the the ultimate winner.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm just having worked. The Indian Air Force

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Speaker 3: team took out the top place for the Great Assistance Cupboard.

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Speaker 3: They ran one hundred and eighty one conners and that's

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Speaker 3: about forty five point two five th team members. So

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Speaker 3: for you know, a voluntary charity event, they're doing it

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Speaker 3: on their own time for a great course. And it

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Speaker 3: was a great event and a great effort for the

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Speaker 3: Indian team and for everyone.

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Speaker 2: What was the vibe like down there?

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Speaker 1: I'm told there was people dancing between laps and having

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Speaker 1: a wonderful time, which is what you'd hope, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: and what you would have expected.

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Speaker 3: Well, twelve hours is a long time to be running

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Speaker 3: off overnight, so you've got to make your own phone,

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Speaker 3: and I think soldiers and sailors and them and are

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Speaker 3: pretty good at that. I'm told the Filipino team or

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Speaker 3: the Philippine and contingent, which ended seventeams, which one of

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Speaker 3: the highest number of teams out of all of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they had all their music synced up together, all their

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Speaker 3: headphones SYNCD up together, and I'm told there was a

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Speaker 3: couple of impromptu dance routines to Britney Spears during a

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Speaker 3: lot of that, so they made a lot out of

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Speaker 3: it and had a great time. How good That energy

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Speaker 3: was just really visible across the board.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how good.

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Speaker 1: I love it when these great community events happen and

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Speaker 1: when the community really gets behind events like this.

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Speaker 2: Any indication of how much money was.

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Speaker 3: Raised, this was principally an awareness raising exercise, so was

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Speaker 3: the big one for us is Bravery Truck with Bravery Truck,

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Speaker 3: which happens later.

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Speaker 1: In the year.

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Speaker 3: We know we've got a lot of servicemen and women

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Speaker 3: in the top end. We know some of them are

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Speaker 3: having some issues from a financial perspectives. So this was

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Speaker 3: exercise to get the awareness out there that if they

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Speaker 3: need a hand from a financial perspective, whether it be

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Speaker 3: emergency systems or counseling or literacy and education, which is

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Speaker 3: what we all do and particularly now in this economic climate.

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Speaker 3: It was about getting that awareness out that. We'll do

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Speaker 3: the big fundraising part of it later on this year

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Speaker 3: September October. But it's all available online. People can jump

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Speaker 3: onto the Bravery Track site get.

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Speaker 1: All the wonderful stuff. A big congratulations to you all.

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Speaker 1: It just sounds like it was a fantastic event and

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Speaker 1: as I say, I love seeing the community everybody turn

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Speaker 1: out for something like this, So thank you so very

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Speaker 1: much for having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Steve no problems at all and look forward to seeing

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Speaker 3: you all supporting the trek in September.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely good on you, Thanks so much,