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Craig Foreman

Major Craig Foreman is an Australian Army officer serving as Regional Manager Pacific–Asia for Unrecovered War Casualties – Army (UWC-A), leading recovery operations for Australia's missing soldiers.

Aug 23, 2026

29:43
team of three, essentially.
29:44
Yeah, a team of three on the ground at all on time.
29:46
So we had an anthropologist there, bone expert, in case we did find.
29:52
And that bone expert came over and went to the Macri lab as well and saw how they do their work, their DNA lab, et cetera.
29:59
And we had our mapping expert come over because we'd mapped the area that we dug.
30:05
So from there...
30:07
We engaged with 3 Battalion because I knew they were going and I asked for funding to allow six of those individuals from 3 Battalion to stay with us for a week after their main contingent departed to assist and provide that historical linkage with the current.
34:24
It's hand dug, I
29:43
team of three, essentially.
29:44
Yeah, a team of three on the ground at all on time.
29:46
So we had an anthropologist there, bone expert, in case we did find.
29:52
And that bone expert came over and went to the Macri lab as well and saw how they do their work, their DNA lab, et cetera.
29:59
And we had our mapping expert come over because we'd mapped the area that we dug.
30:05
So from there...
30:07
We engaged with 3 Battalion because I knew they were going and I asked for funding to allow six of those individuals from 3 Battalion to stay with us for a week after their main contingent departed to assist and provide that historical linkage with the current.
34:24
It's hand dug, I
Caroline Hawley
Caroline HawleyCORRESPONDENT
16:16
The phone calls are constantly interrupted by a recording which says, "This call is from Evin Prison, and the caller is a prisoner." Craig's used to it and carries on.
16:26
It seems to me we're sitting here like, you know, almost sitting ducks.
16:31
Anything could happen, really, within the prison, without the, you know, outside the prison.
16:35
I just feel as if we are wasting our lives in here and rotting away to a degree.
Hannah GelbartADVERTISER
19:00
Do you wish you'd never crossed the border from Armenia into Iran?
19:05
No, um, I'm glad that we came on this journey together.
19:11
Um, you know, we...
19:13
Yes, we're in a horrible position right now, but we have met some fabulous people on the way, and we have seen both sides of this country firsthand.
18:09
Yes, we're in a horrible position right now, but we have met some fabulous people on the way.
18:14
way.Yeah, we have seen both sides of this country firsthand.
18:19
I have seen four of my friends that have been removed and executed for a crime in England or a different country, you may have got a caution.
Caroline Hawley
Caroline HawleyCORRESPONDENT
18:33
Wow.
18:33
Four people have been taken, and I know they've been executed because they publicize it on the TV the next day.

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