Apart from disposing of more than 2200 explosive remnants of war (ERWs), Operation Render Safe in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, also conducted community engagement and education.
From visiting schools to cheering on the East New Britain Agmark Gurias at their home match in Rabaul, members from all the participating and observing nations were involved.
Deputy commander of the operation's contingent, Lieutenant Henry Beri, of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force - Navy, said developing a connection with the community was important.
"For the people out in the villages and in the community, when they see people in uniform they can be sometimes intimidated, so when we do community engagements we give them the assurance that we are here to serve them," Lieutenant Beri said.
"Once they feel open about that, they come and tell us where the ERWs are, and it makes it easy for us to get the render-safe and disposal done."
He said the diversity brought by international partners was crucial to gaining trust in certain parts of the community, particularly in breaching the gender divide and gaining knowledge about previously unknown ERW sites.
"In our unit we are just men, so the fact our international partners have come across with female military personnel has given assurance to the women in the community," Lieutenant Beri said.
"They feel comfortable that they can go up and have a chat and let us know about ERWs, so that's been a really good eye-opener.
"With a lot of the community engagements going on, it's been great to see the younger people come out and participate as well."
In East New Britain for the second time, having taken part in the technical reconnaissance last year, Australian Army Chaplain Andrew Murray said the rural community was overwhelmingly Christian.
"It's not uncommon to see Bible verses or scriptures, and also school chaplains present at the schools that we're visiting," Chaplain Murray said.
"Having a chaplain on the community engagement team helps us to connect on that religious value.
"From a personal perspective, community engagement is not something that I get to do all that frequently in Australia, so it's an element of my job that I only actually get to do while I'm deployed.
"It's a huge privilege and I really valued the opportunity.
"Papua New Guinea is overwhelmingly Christian, and Christian ministers are held in quite high regard so I have found that within the community, because I am a pastor and a chaplain and a member of the ADF, my reception has been overwhelmingly positive."
