This is just one of several examples of the support the personnel have offered to NSW Health and NSW Police across the region since ADF were deployed to assist in combatting COVID-19, according to Australian Defence Force NSW COVID Task Group commander, Colonel Warwick Young.

Colonel Young joined Orana Mid-Western Police District Commander, Superintendent Danny Sullivan in Dubbo on Wednesday to reflect on that support.

"I can only say, the assistance the ADF has provided to us has been invaluable," Superintendent Sullivan said.

The pair gathered at the NSW RFS Training Facility which has acted as headquarters of the Region Emergency Operations Centre where they have been coordinating with local emergency management committees in response to the pandemic.

"NSW Police have been working closely with the ADF in relation to the wellbeing of compliance of those unfortunate enough to have contracted the virus," Superintendent Sullivan said.

"We're very pleased that over 20,000 welfare and compliance visits have been undertaken with the NSW Police and ADF to ensure our community has been well and truly looked after."

Colonel Young said defending your country didn't always mean you were overseas or you had a weapon in hand. "Sometimes it is making the other citizens of your community feel safe and secure and proving support to the other government agencies," he said.

"We've had contact tracers, our vaccination outreach teams that in Western NSW completed a phenomenal achievement.

"Out of 270,000 people in this region, they have been able to vaccinate 55,000 which if you consider, has been done by a team of about 70.

"We have been providing care packs to those in need who are in their homes in isolation, doing the right thing.

"We also have our teams out there doing wayfinding at vaccination centres. We're very happy to be here and we will continue to be here for as long as we're required."

Colonel Young said the role of the ADF had been to help fill a gap and provide support.

He said if he had to make an assessment, Dubbo would have gotten to an 86 per cent double vaccination rate on their own, but the ADF played a vital role.

"Would they have gotten there as quickly? Probably not," Colonel Young said.

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