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The Australian Army:

An Aide-Memoire

April 2014

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The Australian Army: An Aide Memoire

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Contents

The Australian Army .................................................................................................... 1

Land Power ........................................................................................................................... 1

The Strategic Utility of Land Power ....................................................................................... 2

Army’s Philosophy ................................................................................................................. 3

Strategic Tasks ..................................................................................................................... 4

Capability ..................................................................................................................... 5

Modernisation........................................................................................................................ 6

Force Generation .................................................................................................................. 7

Structure ...................................................................................................................... 8

Generic Unit Structure ......................................................................................................... 10

Unit Nomenclature .............................................................................................................. 10

Combined Arms Teaming: Training and Preparing for Operations ..................................... 12

In-barracks and Operational Nomenclature ........................................................................ 13

Shared Functions and Services .......................................................................................... 14

1st Division (Deployable Joint Force Headquarters) .................................................. 15

Conventional Capability ............................................................................................. 16

The Combat Brigade ........................................................................................................... 16

The Infantry Battalion .......................................................................................................... 17

The Armoured Cavalry Regiment ........................................................................................ 18

The Artillery Gun Regiment ................................................................................................. 20

The Combat Engineer Regiment ......................................................................................... 21

The Combat Signals Regiment ........................................................................................... 22

The Combat Service Support Battalion ............................................................................... 23

Enabling Formation Capability ................................................................................... 25

16th Aviation Brigade .......................................................................................................... 26

6th (Combat Support) Brigade ............................................................................................ 27

17th Combat Service Support Brigade ................................................................................ 29

Special Operations Capability .................................................................................... 31

Army Reserve Capability ........................................................................................... 33

Total Force .......................................................................................................................... 33

The Army Reserve .............................................................................................................. 34

Army Reserve Structures .................................................................................................... 35

Outside the Second Division ............................................................................................... 37

Training in Army ........................................................................................................ 38

Army Training System ......................................................................................................... 39

Army Training Continuum ................................................................................................... 39

Joint and Contractor Delivered Training .............................................................................. 39

Individual Training Centres ........................................................................................ 40

Army Knowledge Group ...................................................................................................... 41

Royal Military College of Australia ...................................................................................... 42

Combined Arms Training Centre ......................................................................................... 43

Army Logistics Training Centre ........................................................................................... 44

Army Aviation Training Centre ............................................................................................ 45

Defence Command Support Training Centre ...................................................................... 46

Special Forces Training Centre and Parachute Training School ........................................ 47

University Regiments .......................................................................................................... 47

Ranks, Corps and Employment Categories ............................................................... 48

Ranks .................................................................................................................................. 48

Corps................................................................................................................................... 50

Employment Categories ...................................................................................................... 51

Army’s Disposition ..................................................................................................... 52

Glossary .................................................................................................................... 55

Army’s Values

Army’s cultural and ethical foundation is its values and the bonds of trust and respect between each and every person who joins in service to our Nation. Values form the bedrock of everything we do:

Courage, moral and physical, to act in the best interests of the Nation and the Army; including the moral strength and professionalism to balance the will to win with compassion, and mateship with duty.

Initiative to explore opportunities and embrace innovation to improve Army and our service to our Nation.

Respect for ourselves, our colleagues, our community and our history of service to the Nation; acknowledging that each member of Army has earned the right to wear the Rising Sun Badge and the responsibility to uphold the values and traditions it symbolises.

Teamwork to support each other, our Australian community, our allies and our regional security partners in striving to achieve our mission; in a world connected by digital communication, such national and international ‘communities’ exist in both physical and online domains.

Lieutenant General David Morrison, AO Chief of Army

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The Australian Army

Formed on 1 March 1901, the Australian Army is one of the nation’s oldest institutions. It continues to hold a special place in the hearts of Australians through sacrifice and long service to the nation. The Australian Army is the foundation of the nation’s Land Power and has the mission: To Win the Land Battle. As part of an Australian Defence Force (Joint force), it promotes and protects Australia’s interests, deters threats to Australia’s sovereignty and, if necessary, defeats those threats. To achieve this, the Army must be able to generate credible and sustainable land forces.

Australia’s limited size will always mean its Army is a small force: capable of Brigade and lower manoeuvre and be a meaningful contributor to coalitions of different national forces. It is through quality people, intellectual investment and technological development that the Army achieves credible forces that provide relevant options to Government.

Underpinning Army’s ability to meet government direction is an understanding of the Strategic Utility of Land Power, Army’s Philosophy, the Strategic Tasks, Army’s Capability and Structure.

Land Power

Land Power is the ability to project force in and from land in peace, crisis and war to advance strategic and operational outcomes. Only land power can provide persistent influence on land: that is, a continuous physical presence which shapes intentions, denies threat access to resources, protects populations and builds the capacity of indigenous security forces.

Land power lies within a larger approach to using national and military power and reinforces the instruments of national power: Diplomatic, Information, Military and Economic. Although land power consists of national and military elements, the Army forms its foundation and is the only element capable of close combat.

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The Strategic Utility of Land Power

The employment of land forces over the last fifteen years – in peace, crisis and war – illustrates the inherent utility of land power. Australia’s strategic culture over the last century has been to use Army force elements to apply land power in an expeditionary manner to achieve national political objectives.

Within the military component of national power, Australia’s Maritime Strategy(1) requires an Army which provides rapid and scalable land force options to Government across the spectrum of operations. The spectrum can include such actions as responding to tensions in times of peace (such as economic rivalries, diplomatic friction and ideological differences); deterring aggression; peacekeeping; through to fighting in joint and coalition operations.

Deterrence and Response. Through credible land power, a nation achieves Strategic Deterrence, and the ability to generate Strategic Response.

Strategic Deterrence influences the thoughts and behaviours of others to reduce the likelihood of future threats to Australian and its interests. Strategic Deterrence includes both the positive effect of influence and the negative effect of operational (military) deterrence. If a threat or crisis does arise, Land Power provides flexibility for response. Many nations in the world remain predominately land powers - their perception of Australia’s land power can shape and influence their intents and actions.

Strategic Response is the ability to conduct rapid reaction to crisis or threat developments, whether deriving from natural disaster, emergency or armed threat. Land power offers Government flexibility by providing the means to respond to changing circumstances. Furthermore, credible Land Power can operate across the entire land domain – including the physical, electromagnetic and cyber dimensions – while also being able to influence the air and sea. These capabilities provide strategic response – the ability to conduct rapid reaction to crisis or threat developments.

The lack of a credible land force can have consequences which directly affect national security in the event of a failure of strategic deterrence. Australia may not then be able to respond to a crisis or conflict that is in the national interest due to limited land force options.

1 The Maritime Strategy seeks to use the sea, and the maritime environment, as a means to actively

protect and promote Australia’s interests and influence strategic events in our region. It requires naval, air and land forces to operate in concert to influence and shape strategic events through the maritime environment by the astute application of military power (The Maritime Strategy for the Australian Defence Force).


Army’s Philosophy

Army’s philosophy integrates an understanding of the influences of Australia’s national character, the nature of war, the utility of land power and Army’s role in national military strategy. It embeds these influences within the need for a whole-of-government and coalition responses to national security issues. Within the military element of national power, it maintains the expeditionary focus required by a Maritime Strategy.

To achieve all of this the Army has embraced manoeuvre theory that uses physical means to produce psychological ends in order to achieve political and strategic objectives. Manoeuvre accepts war as a competition between opposing wills, framed in time and understanding, rather than by physical position alone. It relies on the ability to change physical and non-physical circumstances more rapidly than the enemy can adapt. Manoeuvre also seeks to understand how the enemy’s strengths can be undermined.

While it attempts to achieve the economic application of force, manoeuvre theory accepts that combined arms close combat is a central and enduring feature of land warfare and is required to create discrete physical destruction on an enemy that generates a greater cognitive effect, thereby reducing an enemy’s will to fight.

Manoeuvre occurs at all levels of command:

Strategic Manoeuvre. Strategic manoeuvre is the coordinated application of the instruments of national power, directly or indirectly, in pursuit of national strategic objectives, and seeks to prevent or contain conflict. Strategic manoeuvre was particularly effective in the INTERFET operation of 1999 in which Australian and coalition forces were deployed to establish conditions to allow subsequent achievement of national and international political objectives in East Timor.

Operational Manoeuvre. Operational manoeuvre prepares and postures forces in favourable situations to directly, or indirectly, achieve military strategic objectives within a campaign. It sets the conditions to allow tactical commanders to achieve mission success. Operational manoeuvre was used during the Second World War to dislocate the Japanese forces in Papua New Guinea by splitting forces on the northern coast while disrupting the Japanese command and control system at Lae.

Tactical Manoeuvre. Tactical manoeuvre aims to win engagements and battles by placing forces in a position of relative advantage to the enemy, thereby contributing to the achievement of campaign objectives.

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Strategic Tasks

The Australian Government has set the Australian Defence Force four Principle Tasks:

Deter and defeat armed attacks on Australia;

Contribute to stability and security in the South Pacific and Timor-Leste;

Contribute to military contingencies in the Indo-Pacific region, with priority given to Southeast Asia; and

Contribute to military contingencies in support of global security.

Government directs that Army is structured around the first two tasks.

Army Strategic Tasks. Army’s strategic tasks nest within and respond to the four principle tasks and the two structure determining tasks. They are shaped by the need for Strategic Deterrence and Response. The tasks may be conducted in isolation, concurrently or sequentially. The three Army strategic tasks are:

Shaping Australia’s strategic environment. Army contributes to the security of allies and other partners by providing training and materiel assistance. By participating in exercises, exchange programs and cooperative research, Army helps to develop and strengthen alliances and prospective coalition partners. This also promotes democratic institutions and general stability of the countries with which Army engages.

Denying and Defeating threats to Australia and its interests. Army’s core mission is to fight when deterrence and prevention fails. The Government and people of Australia expect the Army to achieve be capable of winning the fight should it occur. The conduct of sustained close combat in combined arms teams is the Army’s unique contribution to the whole of government approach to war.

Protecting and supporting Australian and foreign civil populations. Land forces have a pre-eminent role in protecting and supporting civil populations. Support can extend from civil community support in disasters and emergencies; to assistance to the civil authorities with border protection, counter-terrorism and terror attack response; through to evacuation of Australian and other nationals from hostile or crisis environments. These operations may be unilateral or multilateral missions with the United Nations or other coalition partners.


Capability

Capability might be defined as the collection of personnel, equipment, procedures and other physical components(2) that, when performing a particular function, provide a particular effect or outcome. Army is required to maintain a suite of capabilities which can be made ready to be used after a specific lead time (warning time or notice to move). This preparedness requirement is drawn from Government direction, defined at the Defence and Joint level and translated for Army into annual Chief of Army preparedness direction.

The physical components of Army capability are based on a series of systems. A number of different sets of systems are used, reflecting the highly complex nature of land forces. For the purposes of this document, the following systems are used:

Combat. Combat elements are those land force elements designed to engage the enemy with direct fire weapons, including armour, infantry, Special Forces and aviation.

Combat support. Combat support elements provide offensive support and operational assistance to combat elements. Combat support elements include offensive support, ground-based air defence, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, electronic warfare elements, combat engineers and battlefield support aviation.

Combat service support. Combat service support elements support the land force through the provision of sustainment, movement, distribution, health services, personnel services and equipment maintenance activities.

2 Defence describes the physical components of capability by using the term Fundamental Inputs to Capability. These are: organisation, personnel, major systems and supplies, support, facilities, collective training and command and management. The systems described in this section are made up of collections of physical elements that contribute to the performance of related high-level functions.

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Command support. Command support elements enable commanders to execute their command responsibilities, exercise control and provide specialist advice. They include headquarters staff, communication and information systems capabilities, public affairs and civil military cooperation and military policing.

Modernisation

Modernisation is the process of continuous change that ensures Army capability remains capable of achieving its strategic tasks. Modernisation can involve any type of change, from change in procedures, training, organisations, to the employment of new equipment.

Significant Army-wide change is underway with the development and introduction into service of new capabilities which impact on every area of Army. These changes include:

Block replacement of all Army ‘B’ Vehicles (Land 121). This will provide increased protection and mobility to all parts of Army, particularly those that have not had access to the higher levels of protection in current A Vehicle fleets.

Networking and digitisation projects and programs. The complex introduction of a series of equipment, software and procedural changes that will move Army into a digital environment allowing for much greater situational awareness, information processing and communications capacity.

Replacement of Army ‘A’ (armoured) Vehicle (less Tank) fleets. Still in the early stages of development, the replacement of Army’s light armoured forces will provide greater protection, mobility and firepower and the ability to all parts of the combined arms team.

These changes represent a near total re-equipping of Army, and a movement from an analogue communications-based force with limited protection and firepower options to a force capable of gathering, processing and levering off information to complete a mission in a digital environment and against a range of threat levels.

Army will continue to rely on people to operate systems and leverage the best outcome from equipment provided. Without the smart soldier of the future, the capability benefit of equipment replacements will not be fully realised.

In addition to these land-specific changes, the Australian Defence Force is engaged in the process of implementing an amphibious capability. This is being triggered by the procurement of two Canberra-class Landing Helicopter Dock and other associated ships. However adapting to the change in size of these ships is not the main change the amphibious capability brings: the Australian Defence Force and the Army in particular need to develop skills and experience in the types of operations


that are enabled by the availability of the ships. This includes opportunities that exist for peacekeeping and disaster relief as well the ability to deliver ground, sea and air forces over the shore should combat forces be required.

Force Generation

Force generation is the process by which Army ensures the capabilities Government expects it to have are ready for use. These forces need to be continuously available at the level of preparedness set for them. To move through force generation, individuals and collective organisations perform a series of activities that certify them as ready to be used at a certain level of competence. They will then hold that readiness for a period of time. The ‘ready’ capability is the one called on first among those in the force generation cycle should Government require use of land forces. Once a period at ready is complete, personnel and equipment will be rested and reconstituted back to a basic level of collective competence.

Army employs Force Generation Cycles, whereby different sets of the same capability will be performing their force generation activities in parallel, but offset to the other sets of the same capability. Different parts of the Army will operate in force generation cycles that differ in the number of phases (depending on the number of copies of a particular organisation or capability exist in Army) and the length (depending on the readiness requirement). The primary force generation cycle for in Army is a three-phase one of twelve months per phase.


Structure

The Army is commanded by the Chief of Army. Army contains three Functional Commands and the Army Executive. Army Headquarters is the major part of the Executive. It supports the Chief to manage commitments; synchronise generation and preparation of forces; prepare for future challenges; inform strategic and operational planning; provide strategic corporate and policy development functions.

Functional Commands. The role of each Functional Command differs according to the part they play in preparing Army’s capability. Below the level of the Functional Commands are Formations and Units.

Formations. Formations consist of a number of units commanded by a Headquarters. There are several types of Formation in Army:

Combat Brigade. The Combat Brigade is the core of Army’s conventional fighting force. The three Combat Brigade Headquarters command forces in-barracks and on operations.

Enabling Brigades. Enabling formations include specialist capability that is best generated in a single formation.

Individual Training Formations. Army’s five individual training formations group Training Establishments into groups that provide initial entry, qualification and career development training for the soldier and officer throughout their career. The Training Formation also provides training development and specialist career management advice to Army.

Reserve Formations. The 2nd Division consists of six formations, each of which commands Reserve units in a state-based region (the 9th Brigade includes both South Australia and Tasmania). The 2nd Division also commands the three Regional Force Surveillance Units, which cover northern Australia.

The 1st Division and Special Operations Command do not contain Formations.


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Units. Units are groupings of personnel, equipment and other elements of capability organised to provide a collective capability outcome and managed as a single entity when in barracks. Usually commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel, they form the core of Army’s fighting organisations. Units generally contain a single capability along with supporting elements which are required to allow the core capability to be employed.

Along with the Army as a whole and their Corps, soldiers and officers will usually develop a sense of belonging to the unit.

Generic Unit Structure

While each type of unit will differ from units of other types, the structural framework will generally follow a similar pattern, shown on the next page.

Unit Nomenclature

Titles. Unit titles generally identify the role of the unit and the scale (and size) of the organisation. They may also link the current units to historical military organisations or allied military forces.

In the 2nd Division units often trace their lineage to the First and Second Australian Imperial Force and pre-federation colonial militias. They also have strong historical links with particular regions, as the unit or one of its predecessors will have originally been raised in the area. Army attempts to maintain these links wherever possible.

Titles in the regular Army do not generally trace back beyond the Second World War however many units have older predecessor units.

Structural Conventions. Most units share a common structural framework (see Generic Unit Structures section below). However the titles used for each layer in this framework are different depending on the primary function of the unit and in some cases the Corps they are affiliated to(3).

While there are exceptions at all levels, a unit is usually known as a Battalion, Regiment or Unit. Sub-units are usually a Company, Squadron or Battery. Below that will usually be a Troop or Platoon. Some units employ a fourth layer, the Section, Detachment or Patrol.

3 The Corps affiliation of a unit does not mean that the unit contains only members of that Corps. For example almost all units have combat service support and most have signals personnel in them, regardless of their type.


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Regiment. The term ‘Regiment’ is used variously in the Army:

In the Royal Australian Infantry Corps, Infantry Battalions are styled “X Battalion, The Royal XXX Regiment” (For example, Infantry Battalions in the Regular Army are “X Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment”). Regular Army Battalions are part of the Royal Australian Regiment, while Reserve Battalions are part of their respective State Regiment. An Infantry Regiment is an organisation containing one or more Battalions (which are the fighting unit), but smaller than a formation (Brigade). This convention is drawn from the British Army regimental system. Infantry Regiments in both the British and Australian Armies are institutional, not fighting, organisations.

Units of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps are titled Regiments.

Both the Artillery as a whole (the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery) and its individual units are referred to as Regiments.

Combined Arms Teaming: Training and Preparing for Operations

A combined arms team is a case-by-case mix of combat, combat support, combat service support and command support elements tailored to a specific combination of mission, threat and terrain.

The philosophy of combined arms institutionalises the characteristics of versatility, agility and orchestration. It accustoms individuals and small teams to tailored, task-specific “battle groups” that can be rapidly reorganised, regrouped and re-tasked as a situation develops. The principles of combined arms are complementarity - the strengths of each arm cover the vulnerabilities of another; and dilemma, where the combined arms team imposes a dilemma upon the enemy – in taking action to avoid the effects of one arm, they are exposed to another.

Army’s in-barracks structures (often referred to as ‘raise – train – sustain’ or RTS structures) are designed to be modular and effective in contributing forces to combined arms teams. They also achieve resource and training economies of scale by providing collective training to a common capability type in a common organisation.


In-barracks and Operational Nomenclature

To distinguish an operational organisation, Army uses different nomenclature for the operational grouping, based on the size of the deployed team. A formation, unit and subunit in-barracks will generally be referred to by its structural type (Battalion, Company, etc). The deployed group will generally be larger than its in-barracks equivalents due to the presence of enablers attached to the core in-barracks organisation. The illustration below shows the equivalencies and indicative sizes of in-barracks and operational organisations:

In-barracks (raise, train, sustain) Operational (combined arms)

Brigade Up to 3500 Task Force Up to 5000 Unit 400 to 700 Battle Group Up to 1200

Subunit 80 to 150 Combat Team Up to 200


Shared Functions and Services

The Australian Army is both an Armed Service of the Australian Defence Force and a Group within the Department of Defence. Army relies on functions provided by other elements of these larger organisations at all times.

At Home. The Department of Defence, contractors and external agencies provide a number of functions for all Services, including Army, that are vital to the delivery of capability. Functions that might traditionally have been associated with an Army are not necessarily provided by the Army for itself. The number of services performed for Army (and other Services) by Departmental or external agencies has increased in recent years with the adoption of Shared Services models for key functions across the Department of Defence.

The following table includes show some of the functions that Army does and does not undertake.

Army: Army does not:

√ Trains personnel and collective units

√ Sustains equipment at unit, formation and force level

√ Manages land force capability development.

x Command forces on operations x Procure, own, operate or dispose of

bases x Provide security at bases x House, accommodate or feed

personnel x Procure equipment x Sustain equipment in and through the

national support base x Procure most Information and

Communications Technology services

x Provide most of its financial management

x Provide its own legal services x Provide community services

to soldiers x Conduct civilian human

resource management x Provide its own in barracks

health services

On Operations. While on operations land forces form part of the Joint force and are allocated under the command of Headquarters Joint Operations Command for the period. In a Joint force the lines between all three Services of the Australian Defence Force will blur. Functions are provided by one Service to the other as required. A range of Government, non-Government and contractor agencies will also be present in most operational settings. In many cases these organisations will also both provide and require provision of support functions.


1st Division (Deployable Joint Force Headquarters)

Headquarters 1st Division has a number of functions:

Command of the 1st Division, which prepares Army Force Elements to meet specific operational and contingency requirements.

Forming the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, the Australian Defence Forces’ standing deployable Headquarters, which commands assigned force elements to meet specified operational and contingency requirements.

Provides collective training and certification for forces preparing for deployment.

The Commander First Division has an Australian Defence Force wide lead role in the development of the Australian Defence Force’s amphibious concepts and capability.

First Signals Regiment

Provide direct support communication and information system and combat service support to Deployable Joint Force Headquarters Provide general support communications and information systems support to Joint Task Force enablers for the command and control of assigned force elements

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Deliver advanced collective combat training to readiness forces in order to prepare them for operations and contingencies

39th Operational

Support Battalion

Provides force preparation and mounting support to ADF individuals and specialist teams, and sustain specified operations in order to enhance Joint capability and force protection.

2nd/30th Training Group

Command posted and force-assigned Army elements at RMAF Base Butterworth, Malaysia in order to train to directed levels of Foundation War Fighting while contributing to the Australian Defence Force International Engagement plan in the region.


Conventional Capability

Army’s conventional forces are centred on the Combat Brigade, enabled by Enabling Formations and the Army Reserve, and commanded by deployable command and control nodes.

The Combat Brigade

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The core of a one-star deployable Joint (and potentially Inter-Agency) Task Force Headquarters. Will receive attachments from specialist units, other services and agencies for a deployment.

The Combat Brigade contains: About 3500 Regular Army personnel; The core of a 1-star deployable Joint Interagency Task Force; A modular force design based on three battle groups; scalable capability and effect response; balanced capabilities for flexible response to most likely contingencies; and Protected mobility and networked capabilities throughout. The Brigade will receive additional specialist capabilities from Enabling Brigades, Other Commands and Services, Inter-agency teams and Coalition partners.

Combat Signals Regiment

Responsible for establishment and maintenance of voice and digital networks to the Brigade and to higher commands. Will incorporate specialist signals capabilities that are attached to the Brigade.

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Provides a battle group headquarters and three manoeuvre groups. The units provides a Tank Squadron, ASLAV Cavalry Squadron and an armoured lift capability for an infantry battle group

Standard Infantry

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Each provides a battle group headquarters and three manoeuvre groups. Employs a variety of light and medium weapons systems to provide a scalable response. A high degree of strategic mobility and can be tactically employed in a variety of platforms (Armour PMV-Bushmaster, Ship, Helicopter or fixed wing aircraft)

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Based on three M777A2 batteries. Provides joints fire support and effects coordination the Brigade. Capable to support three battle groups with joint fires observation and coordination.

Combat Engineer Regiment

Provides mobility and survivability effects. Will receive additional construction engineering and Explosive Ordnance Disposal capabilities to deliver a full spectrum of military engineering capability.

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Provides second line maintenance, supply, distribution and protected lift capabilities to the Brigade units. Will be reinforced by other Combat Service Support capabilities and the specialist units attached to the Brigade


The Infantry Battalion

5th & 7th; 1st, 2nd & 3rd; 6th & 8/9th Battalions, The Royal Australian Regiment(4)

The Infantry remain the core of Army’s war fighting capability. The infantry are a lethal and agile force capable of deploying by a variety of means into an operational area and

tactically into combat, to close with and kill or capture the enemy. They are a vital element to any combined arms team and perform tasks across the spectrum of operations. Each Combat Brigade will consist of two Standard Infantry Battalions.

The infantry are able to deploy by foot, helicopter, aircraft, ship, armoured personnel carrier and Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle, and must maintain an adaptive and agile

capability to rapidly transition between these modes of mobility and combat.

Each battalion consists of a headquarters that is capable of commanding a Battle Group. There are three Rifle Companies, a Support Company and Administration Company.

4 The 2nd Battalion is dedicated to the development and introduction of the Australian Amphibious Capability and has a different structure to the other Infantry Battalions. 3rd Brigade contains two standard Infantry Battalions and the 2nd Battalion.


The Armoured Cavalry Regiment

1st Armoured Regiment, 2nd Cavalry Regiment and 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry)

The Armoured Cavalry Regiment (ACR) provides the Brigade a multi-role unit that provides a number of highly mobile, agile, protected and lethal fighting platforms. The ACR generates Army’s armoured vehicle requirements for reconnaissance, surveillance, combat lift and close combat.

Each Regimental headquarters is capable of commanding a Battle Group. The sub-units are a Tank Squadron of three troops (noting this may not initially be allocated to each Armoured Cavalry Regiment), an ASLAV Squadron that includes three troops and a discrete surveillance troop, the APC Squadron (capable of lifting the dismounted combat elements of an infantry based battle group) and an Operational support Squadron capable of providing specialist Armoured vehicle support, repair and re-supply.

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Capabilities in the Armoured-Cavalry Regiment:

Armour is the general term for a weapon system that combines firepower, protection and mobility.

Tank. The role of tanks is in coordination with other arms, to close with and destroy the enemy using fire, manoeuvre and shock action. They provide protection and close, direct fire support to forces that they are employed as a part of.

Cavalry. The role of cavalry is to locate, dislocate, and disrupt the enemy through the conduct of offensive, defensive and security actions.

Armoured Personnel Carrier. An Armoured Personnel Carrier allows the safe and rapid movement of infantry in a combat zone, minimising casualties and maximising mobility.

The Australian Army does not currently employ a true Infantry Fighting Vehicle, The Infantry Fighting Vehicle combines the capability of an Armoured Personnel Carrier with the greater firepower of light tank to enable forces to fight through an objective employing both the vehicle platform and the forces it protects and carries.


The Artillery Gun Regiment

8/12th, 4th and 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery

The Gun Regiment provides close offensive support to the combined arms team and coordinates the link to joint offensive support, targeting and related effects coordination. (Close in this context means that the effect delivered by the weapon system can be delivered close to the supported elements of the Combined Arms Teams – the actual Artillery weapons may be at a significant distance.) The Regimental Headquarters and Operations Support Battery will form part of the Brigade Headquarters as the Joint Fire Support Effects Coordination Cell, responsible for the planning, coordination and control of joint offensive support on behalf of the formation. It incorporates provision air support and airspace and force support control measures and plays an important role within the targeting process and technical intelligence of enemy offensive support.

The delivery of fire support for the formation is through the three Gun Batteries, each equipped with the M777A2 Light weight Howitzer and provide each of the three battle groups with a battle group Joint Fire Support Effects Coordination Cell and Joint Fire Teams for each of the Brigades Combat Teams.

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The Combat Engineer Regiment

1st, 3rd and 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment

The Combat Engineer Regiment provides mobility and survivability, ensuring that the force is able to manoeuvre and protecting it from attack. It also contributes to missions designed to limit the mobility of an adversary.

The Combat Engineer Regiment includes both combat and specialist Engineer capabilities.

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Gap crossing equipment delivered under Project Land 155 and capability delivered under Land 400 will significantly enhance Combat Engineer capability.


The Combat Signals Regiment

1st, 3rd and 7th Combat Signal Regiment

Combat Signals Regiments provide command and control and command and control support to the Brigade to enable full spectrum complex warfighting operations.

The Combat Signals Regiment establishes and maintains communications and information systems for deployed forces.

The Signals Regiment contains two major types of Command and Control Nodes: the formation node, designed to provide the overall system, and the unit node, designed to link a manoeuvre unit (or battle group) to the wider system.

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Digitisation is an Army-wide capability introduction program within the current Defence Capability Plan. Various Projects are or will deliver Communication and Information Systems, Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and other systems. These systems are being rolled out across Army (not just within the Signals units).


The Combat Service Support Battalion

1st, 3rd and 7th Combat Service Support Battalion

The Combat Service Support Battalion provides combat service support to all units of the Brigade and other force elements where able to. While the Combat Service Support Battalion is organised along functional lines, almost all employment of the unit or elements of it will draw components from each Subunit (transport, workshop and supply). In addition, when deployed other capabilities, such as Catering and Health, may be attached to the combat service support group.

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The Combat Service Support Battalion Transport Company includes a Protected Mobility Vehicle (Bushmaster) based capability. Protected Mobility provides protection to forces while they are being transported, but has a more limited protection and mobility (and much lower firepower) than armoured capability.


Enabling Formation Capability

Army retains a proportion of its specialist capabilities within 6th, 16th and 17th Brigades. These formations and units provide Army enhanced capabilities and will be assigned to the Combat Brigade or other forces as required.

Due to the relatively scarce nature of the capabilities, these units generally operate a two phase force generation cycle of being ready and preparing for being ready. This requires careful management to ensure enduring support to the Combat Brigade and other supported capabilities such as Special Operations Command and the Amphibious capability.

These units often integrate specialist Army Reserve capabilities as part of the total force concept.


16th Aviation Brigade

Headquarters 16th Aviation Brigade Command and control of Army’s aviation capability

1st Aviation Regiment Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter

5th Aviation Regiment

S-70A Blackhawk (to be replaced by the MRH-90) CH-47D Chinook (being replaced by CH-47F Chinook)

6th Aviation Regiment S-70A Blackhawk (to be replaced by the MRH-90)

The ARH Tiger is used in armed reconnaissance missions. It can engage ground or air targets with a 30mm cannon 70mm rockets and Hellfire missiles. It is optimised for Reconnaissance Attack and Escort missions in support of conventional and special forces.

The CH-47F Chinook is a medium/heavy-lift helicopter used for troop movement, artillery emplacement and battlefield re-supply in support of both conventional and special forces. The Chinook can lift up to 11, 000kg or transport 30 fully equipped troops.

The MRH-90 is used primarily for Air Mobile and Amphibious Operations in support of both conventional and special forces and is capable of carrying 12 fully-equipped troops.


6th (Combat Support) Brigade

Headquarters 6th Brigade Command and control of 6th Brigade

1st Intelligence Battalion

All Source Cell (intelligence fusion and analysis) Human Intelligence, Information activities, Psychological Operations and Exploitation Capabilities Topographical Survey and geospatial intelligence

16th Air Land Regiment

RBS-70 Ground Based Air Defence Counter Rocket and Mortar system based on the Giraffe AMB and Mortar Locating Radar Air Land Integration Cells, Joint Terminal Air Control (JTAC) and Ground Liaison Detachments. Divisional Joint Fires Support Effects Coordination Cell.

20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment

Shadow 200 Un-crewed Aerial System Artillery Meteorological and Survey

7th Signals Regiment (Electronic Warfare)

Conducts tactical electronic warfare to enhance land combat capability

6th Engineer Support Regiment

Construction Engineering and Planning EOD capability

19th Chief Engineer (Works)

Major Engineering planning and contract management


RBS-70 Giraffe Agile Multi-Band Radar

Shadow 200 Un-crewed Aerial System

Water Purification Unit

Remote Positioning Vehicles / EOD robots


17th Combat Service Support Brigade

Command and Control

Headquarters 17th Combat Service Support Brigade

Command and control of 17th Brigade Deployed logistic command and control component

145th Signals Squadron

Provision of communications and information systems support to units within 17th Brigade and where possible other enabling Brigades. 145th Squadron will merge into 1st Signals Regiment when facilities are available to collocate the two units.

1st Military Police Battalion

Provision of combat Military police functions including movement control and coordination, specialist detainee management, close personal protection, enforcing military discipline and basic investigation and evidence preservation.

Health

1st Close Health Battalion

Provision of health support to the other brigades Includes initial wound and primary health care

2nd General Health Battalion

Provision of enhanced health facilities as a deployed hospital Includes initial wound, damage control surgery and allied health service Shock Trauma Platoon to provided an enhanced combat surgical capability to support 1st line health

3rd Health Support Battalion

Providing specialist health support to Army through Army Reserve specialists

1st Psychological Unit

Provides the ADF with a deployable Psychological care, advice and analysis capability for the monitoring and management of mental health and support to other operations


Logistics

9th Force Support Battalion

A multi-role 3rd line (General) logistic capability Incorporates combat supplies, warehousing, distribution, personnel services and catering capabilities

10th Force Support Battalion

A multi-role 3rd line (General) logistic capability Incorporates medium road transport capability, water transport operations, combat supplies, petroleum operations, postal and warehousing capabilities

2nd Force Support Battalion

Incorporates a Reserve Transport and Recovery capability Establishes the Theatre gateway for deployed forces

Levels of Combat Service Support:

Integral (First Line) Support – the logistic capabilities necessary to provide unit viability, that is, the level of support necessary to maintain a unit at its designated readiness level, regardless of the assigned mission.

Close (Second Line) Support – the support provided by a combat service support unit or formation attached to or under the command/control of the supported unit or formation.

General (Third Line) Support – support given to the force as a whole and includes more complex and/or lengthy CSS activities requiring greater security and stability.

Mounting Base (Fourth Line) Support – support is the deployment and sustainment of the force from the National Support Base through a logistic bridge to the theatre of operations


Special Operations Capability

Special Operations Command units provide Army highly trained, robust and agile forces able to conduct a wide range of high risk operations. These force elements can operate either in support of the conventional Army, a Joint Task Force, or on their own.

The range of tasks include long range strategic reconnaissance and surveillance, the ability to identify, fix and strike at targets of tactical and strategic importance, building the capacity of indigenous forces, close personal protection and provide specialist counter-terrorists forces for offshore incidents, or in support of the law enforcement.


The units of Special Operations Command are:

Special Operations Headquarters

Command and Control of Army Special Forces units Specialist advice to Senior Leadership on Special Operations

Special Air Service Regiment Special Air Service capability

1st Commando Regiment

Development of Army Reserve Special Forces capabilities

2nd Commando Regiment Commando capability

Special Operations Engineer Regiment Special Forces Combat Engineering capability

Special Operations Logistic Squadron

Designated close logistic support to the Command

Special Forces Training Centre

Individual training for Special Forces and other selected personnel Training development and support to trade management of Special Forces

Parachute Training Centre

Individual training in all ADF parachute operations Training development for ADF parachute capabilities


Army Reserve Capability

Total Force

The Total Force concept ensures that the full capability available from all components of the workforce is utilised in support of Australian Defence Force operations and Whole of Government responses: in Army this includes Regular Army, Reserve Army and Civilian personnel.

Within the military component of the Workforce, a range of forms of service are available, from full time (Regular) employment, through part time permanent, permanent part time to the traditional Reserve service.

Operational Employment of the Total Force


The Army Reserve

At its most fundamental level, the Army Reserve exists to deliver capability. It does so in two ways: direct and through community engagement.

Direct. The first way the Reserve contributes to capability is the provision of individuals and force elements in support of operations. This is by far the Reserve’s most important contribution to capability and the only one which determines force structure.

Community engagement. The Army Reserve ‘footprint’ covers parts of Australia where there is no other ADF presence and many Reservists not only live in the community but also work in it.

Role. Although it could be argued that under the Total Force concept, the role of the Army Reserve is exactly the same as Army’s, in order to provide a clear focus to the Reserve, and greater public awareness of its purpose, it is useful to delineate an explicit role. This is:

“The Army Reserve is to

deliver specified capability to support and sustain ADF

preparedness and operations.”

Tasks. In order to fulfil its role, the Army Reserve has four core tasks, each underpinned by several supporting tasks, and one non-aligned supporting task. These core tasks are to:

Deliver specified warfighting capabilities (main effort);

Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and domestic security as part of Whole of Government approach;


Maintain and provide specialist individual capabilities; and

Contribute to Army surge capabilities.

Army Reserve Structures

2nd Division

The 2nd Division is the largest part of the Army Reserve.

It consists of a Headquarters, Signals Regiment, six Brigades and three Regional Force Surveillance Units.

Brigades are paired and are tasked to provide a set output every three year, in line with the generation of capability in the Combat Brigade. The current output is shown below:

The principle of habitual relationships between a Reserve Brigade pair and a Combat Brigade does not mean that the Reserve Brigades are commanded by the Combat Brigade. Instead, the three Brigade Commanders will work together to ensure the required capability is generated to a ‘ready’ level of capability in both the Regular and Reserve forces.

The provision of a capability output by generating it within a Reserve structure is referred to as integration of effect.


The raise, train and sustain organisation of the 2nd Division is as follows:

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Regional Force Surveillance Units

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51st Battalion, The Far North Queensland Regiment

North-West Mobile Force

The Pilbara Regiment


Outside the Second Division

Outside the 2nd Division, Army employs the principle of integration of structure, where Reserve capability is either fully integrated with Regular capability inside a single unit, or Reserve and Regular capabilities exist in the same formation or Command.

Additionally, Army Reserve personnel fulfil a number of individual roles in headquarters, training organisations and as specialist advisors.

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Training in Army

Army has earned an international reputation for focussed, high quality training of skills, concepts and personal character. The training centres and individual schools are manned by experienced personnel, delivering instruction and generating a learning culture within the Army. The Army also recognises the quality of other training institutions both in Australia and overseas and supports individual attendance and ongoing professional engagement with other military schools and other tertiary institutions to improve soldiers’ skills and education.

Leadership development. ‘Every soldier a leader’ is a key concept within the Army leadership culture. Along with the immutable human nature of warfare is the immutable need for leadership of people in warfare. The qualities of leadership are developed throughout the training continuum and through the experiences of all our personnel. The development of the intellectual and moral component of Army’s leaders, along with professional mastery, is key to mission success and underpins the ongoing development of modernisation and adaptive culture Army seeks to sustain.

Foundation War fighting. Army remains focussed on its core duties as the foundation for professional mastery. It is the foundation skills, developed by recent experience and enhanced by new technology that will provide the basis for Army’s individual training institutions. Army will continue to invest in enhancing the foundation war fighting skills in its training capabilities, including advanced simulation systems and quality training facilities.

Combined Arms and Interagency Operations. Army must train as it intends to fight, and this demands the virtual and live systems training with the other services, regional and international partners and other agencies. The restructure of the Combat Brigade serves to have balanced combined arms groupings organised to train as a team and ongoing commitment to Army’s major exercises such as Hamel and Talisman Sabre will enhance our interoperability and collective professional mastery in combat operations.


A Culture of Thinking and Learning. Army has actively developed a desire to think on the future, seek innovative solutions to problems and challenge the current way of business. This culture is crucial to enable the adaption cycle in operational situations, develop innovative and resourceful soldiers and remain agile in operational and strategic planning, modernisation and concept development.

Army Training System

The Army applies a systems approach to training based on the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) Instructional Systems Design model. As utilised in Army, this systems approach not only directly relates training needs to capability but is also linked to priorities, resources, doctrine, new hardware career development and legislation. It is continuous evaluated and improved.

Army operates within the National Training System, a mechanism for establishing workplace competency standards required in industry and in government and for the awarding of nationally-recognised qualifications to individuals competent against these standards.

Army Training Continuum

Army employs a graduated training progression which coordinates and synchronises conduct of individual and collective training to meet a high standard of collective capability. This progression is known as the Army Training Continuum.

Joint and Contractor Delivered Training

Army conducts a significant amount of training through commercial arrangements and at Joint and Defence institutions. Key Joint Training institutions include the Australian Defence College and Air Force and Navy training establishments.

Army Training establishments also deliver training for whole of Australian Defence Force and in some cases whole of Defence personnel.


Individual Training Centres

The purpose of individual training is to prepare individuals with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to the level and standard required for them to take up their position within units and continue their progression into collective training through the Army Training continuum. It then also supports the individual the additional training necessary to progress through the rank and professional development. Army delivers training through five training formations and other training establishments. Broadly speaking the training establishments fall into three categories: induction and career development, skills and tactics and Reserve training.

Induction and career development – generally involving training that all Army members or whole groups of soldiers or officers will undertake, and which allows for rank and career progression. While the Royal Military College of Australia is the primary Army organisation involved in career training, other training formations, Reserve training establishments and Joint training establishments (such as the Australian Defence College) are also involved.

Skills and tactics – generally involving training that is common to a Corps or Employment Category and the additional training involved to progress in that trade (such as supervisory or technical managerial skills).

Reserve – Army Reserve personnel are trained wherever possible to the same competencies as Regular personnel, although they may not receive the same number of competencies. Training often occurs at the same institutions. The 2nd Division contains University Regiments which provide additional specialist training for Reserves.


Army Knowledge Group

The Army Knowledge Group provides enabling support to the conduct of individual training, through the analysis and coordination of lessons; development of learning products and doctrine. It contains a number of Centres:

The Land Simulation Centre develops and improves foundational knowledge within a synthetic environment IOT support learning in the Operations, Force Preparation, Force Modernisation and Joint Development Domains. It operates a number of regional Battle Simulation Centres which support training and learning at major Army locations.

The Centre for Army Lessons coordinates and implements Army’s lessons process. Lessons processes are the method by which Army collects, analyses and promulgates the lessons learned on exercise and operations to future soldiers.

The Army Learning Production Centre develops technology-based learning strategy and knowledge products in order to support Army learning. It connects Army professional development, training and soldiering together by designing, producing and distributing job-relevant technology-based learning products.

The Land Doctrine Centre facilitates input from an Army wide network of subject matter experts, authors and sponsors to provide Army with current and relevant doctrine.

Doctrine is the Army’s body of knowledge on the nature, role and conduct of military operations, and includes a wide range of different subjects. Doctrine can cover topics from the conduct of strategic level warfare through to the tactics, techniques and procedures which are applied by the soldier to their individual tasks. Army doctrine is nested within wider Joint Australian Defence Force doctrine. The combination of competency standards and doctrine might be considered to be the curricula which all individual training delivers.


Royal Military College of Australia

The Royal Military College of Australia is the formation responsible for the delivery of all common foundation individual training within the Army Training Continuum. The Royal Military College also works in conjunction with the 2nd Division for the delivery of the Army Reserve training.

Training Institutions:

Royal Military College – Duntroon Train Officer Cadets and specialist candidates for commissioning as Officers.

Army Recruit Training Centre (including 1st Recruit Training Battalion and Army Adventurous Training Wing) Train Soldiers for entry to Army.

Land Warfare Centre (Including: Officer Training Wing; Warrant Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer Academy and Education Wing) Train Officers, Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers to develop capable leaders, and support Army as a learning organisation.


Combined Arms Training Centre

The Combined Arms Training Centre is the Formation responsible for individual combined arms training.

HeadquartersCombined ArmsTraining Centre

Puckapunyal VIC

School of Artillery

Puckapunyal VIC

School of Armour

Puckapunyal VIC

School of Infantry

Singleton NSW

School of Military

Engineering

Moorebank (Holsworthy) NSW

Combat Trades and Training

Branch

Puckapunyal VIC


School of Armour Deliver training in armoured and combined arms foundation Warfighting skills.

School of Artillery Deliver combined arms focused, individual training specialising in surveillance and target acquisition, fire support coordination, indirect fire and air defence artillery skills

School of Infantry Delivers combined arms focused, individual training in Infantry and dismounted combat skills

School of Military Engineering Trains personnel in military engineering in order to meet the needs of the combat force


Army Logistics Training Centre

The Army Logistic Training Centre trains, educates and develops combat service support and logistic soldiers and officers within the foundation war fighting training continuum.

HeadquartersArmy Logistic

Training Centre

Wodonga VIC

Army School of Transport

Puckapunyal VIC

Army School of Logistic

Operations

Wodonga VIC

Army School of Ordnance

Wodonga VIC

Army School of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering

Wodonga VIC

Maritime Wing

Ross Island QLD

121 Training

RAAF BaseAmberley QLD

Army School of Health

Wodonga VIC

Development Group

Wodonga VIC

Training Institutions: Army School of Logistic Operations

Provides professional development and career progression courses for Officers, Warrant Officers and Senior and Junior Non-Commissioned Officers from Army's Logistic Corps

Army School of Ordnance

Provides supply and administration training within the foundation Warfighting continuum

Army School of Transport

Provides military transport training and education within the foundation Warfighting continuum

Army School of Health

Delivers military and physical training, medical, nursing, psychology, and military self defence training for the Australian Defence Force

Army School of Electrical

and Mechanical Engineering

Provides technical training to the Australian Defence Force in the form of mechanical, electrical and building trade training


Army Aviation Training Centre

The Army Aviation Training Centre provides instruction of Pilot, Loadmaster, and Groundcrewmen courses as well as the training of Aircraft Technicians for employment within Army Aviation.

HeadquartersArmy Aviation Training Centre

Oakey QLD

Rotary Wing Aircraft

Maintenance School

Oakey QLD

Army Helicopter School

Oakey QLD

School of Army Aviation

Oakey QLD

MRH-90 Training

Townsville, QLD


Army Helicopter School

Trains helicopter pilots for the Army and flying Instructors for the Navy and Army

Rotary Wing Aircraft

Maintenance School

Provides special and advanced skills training for Aeronautical Engineering Officers, Army and Australian Defence Force Aircraft Maintenance Technicians, Army Aircrew and Aircraft Support Service personnel

School of Army Aviation

Trains Officer, Soldiers and Sailors in the baseline essential skills of rotary wing operations, within a tactical setting, in order to prepare them for Regimental and Operational service

Under Project Air 9000 Ph 7, the Helicopter Aircrew Training System, a Joint Helicopter School based at HMAS Albatross near Nowra will train Navy Pilots, Aviation Warfare Officers and Aircrewmen as well as Army Pilots and Aircrewmen.

This will result in a reduction of the training conducted at the Army Aviation Training Centre.


Defence Command Support Training Centre

Defence Command Support Training Centre conducts training in the disciplines of signals, intelligence, service policing, and music.

It exists to improve the synergies between Joint Signals, Electronic Warfare, Intelligence and Language training in the Australian Defence Force.

Headquarters Defence Command

Support Training Centre

Macleod VIC

Defence Force School of Signals

Macleod VIC

Defence Intelligence

Training Centre

Canungra QLD

Defence Police Training Centre

Moorebank NSW

Defence ForceSchool of Music

Macleod VIC

Electronic WarfareWing

Cabarlah QLD

Maritime Wing

HMAS CerberusVIC


Defence Force School of Signals Train and develop Electronic Warfare and Information Communications Technology professionals

Defence Intelligence Training Centre Conducts intelligence, imagery analysis and Defence Cooperation-sponsored training for military and civilian members of the Australian Defence Force and the Defence Intelligence Community

Defence Force School of Music Delivers professional music training that meets the needs of Australian Defence Force bands

Defence Police Training Centre (Including Defence Force Correctional Establishment) Delivers Australian Defence Force service police training, a range of specialist training, and corrective training for servicepersons under arrest and under sentence.


Special Forces Training Centre and Parachute Training School

Directly commanded by Special Operation Headquarters, the Special Forces Training Centre and Parachute Training School provide Special Operations recruit training, individual and small team collective and parachute training.

The Parachute Training School is located in Nowra.

University Regiments

University Regiments deliver a range of training for Army Reserve personnel. Career courses include First Appointment and Rank progression courses. Each University Regiment is also responsible for the delivery of particular skills and tactics training for all Reservists.

The six University Regiments are commanded by their proximate Second Division Brigade Headquarters. They are normally located on or near the campus of their primary University, with presences at nearby training bases and satellite Universities.

Part of: Universities located at (not exhaustive):

Melbourne University Regiment

4th Brigade

Melbourne University Monash University

Adelaide University Regiment

9th Brigade

Adelaide Tasmania (Hobart)

Sydney University Regiment

5th Brigade

Sydney University University of Wollongong Australian National University Regional NSW

University of New South Wales Regiment

8th Brigade

University of New South Wales University of New England University of Newcastle

Queensland University Regiment

11th Brigade

University of Queensland Townsville

Western Australia University Regiment

13th Brigade East Fremantle


Ranks, Corps and Employment Categories

Ranks

Other Ranks

Recruit (REC) A soldier under training who has not yet passed basic training

Private (PTE) All new soldiers start as Privates. Also titled Gunner, Trooper, Craftsman, Signalman, Patrolman, Sapper or Musician depending on Corps or Regiment

Lance Corporal (LCPL)

Also titled Lance Bombardier (LBDR) in the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery

Corporal (CPL) Also titled Bombardier (BDR) in the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery

Sergeant (SGT) Sergeants provide leadership and advice in combat and training to soldiers and junior officers.

Staff Sergeant (SSGT)

This rank is currently being phased out of the Australian Army

Warrant Officer Class Two (WO2)

WO2s act as senior adviser to the commander of a sub-unit

Warrant Officer Class One

WO1s are the senior advisors of their unit’s Commanding Officer

Regimental Sergeant Major of the Army (RSM-A)

The senior warrant officer in the Australian Army


The Australian Defence Force uses the reference E-X (Enlisted equivalent X) to describe all Other Ranks of equivalent rank across the three Services. For example, E7 refers to Sergeants (in Army and Air Force) and Petty Officers.

Officer Ranks

Officer Cadet (OCDT)

Given to those who are studying at the Australian Defence Force Academy. The rank is changed to Staff Cadet upon entry to the Royal Military College, Duntroon

Lieutenant (LT)

Junior commissioned rank. The Lieutenant rank has a primary leadership role in combat and training, at the lowest level of the unit.

Captain (CAPT)

Captains are normally second-in-command of a sub-unit.

Major (MAJ) Majors are field rank officers who command a sub-unit

Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)

Lieutenant Colonels typically command units

Colonel (COL)

Colonels are the first of the senior officer ranks and are not usually field commanders - typically they serve as staff officers at Divisional and Command level headquarters

Brigadier (BRIG)

Brigadiers command at the Brigade level and are also Directors General within Army Headquarters and non-Army groups

Major General (MAJGEN)

Major Generals command formations of division size, or equivalent, and hold senior executive appointments within the Department of Defence

Lieutenant General (LTGEN)

The Rank of Lieutenant General is held by the Chief of Army and other Defence Force positions of equivalent seniority (such as Vice Chief of the Defence Force)

General (GEN) The rank of General is only held when an Army Officer is appointed as the Chief of the Defence Force

The Australian Defence Force also employs the reference OX (Officer equivalent X) to describe all equivalent Officer ranks across the three Services. For example, O5 refers to Lieutenant Colonels, Commanders and Wing Commanders. The terms 1-star officer (for a Brigadier), 2-star (for a Major General), 3-star (for a Lieutenant General) and 4-star (for a General) are also used.


Rank Progression. Promotion is highly competitive, requiring the fulfilment of a set of requirements and selection for promotion by career management agencies and a Commanding Officer or Selection Board. Progression requirements may include individual and collective training and completion of minimum time in rank.

Corps

A corps is a group of troops within an armed force with a common function. The corps of the Australian Army perform specific combat, combat support or combat service support roles that have shaped their growth, development and the generation of esprit de corps that characterises each and is a source of pride to their members.

The Corps of Staff Cadets

The Royal Australian Armoured Corps

The Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery

The Royal Australian Engineers

The Royal Australian Corps of Signals

The Royal Australian Infantry Corps

The Australian Army Aviation Corps

The Australian Intelligence Corps

The Royal Australian Army Chaplains Department

The Royal Australian Corps of Transport

The Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

The Royal Australian Army Dental Corps

The Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps

The Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The Royal Australian Army Educational Corps

The Australian Army Public Relations Service

The Australian Army Catering Corps

The Royal Australian Army Pay Corps

The Australian Army Legal Corps

The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police

The Australian Army Psychology Corps

The Australian Army Band Corps

The Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps


Each corps has an appointed Head of Corps, normally held as a secondary appointment by a senior Corps member. The Head of Corps advises the Chief of Army on Corps ceremonial and capability matters.

Corps are not fighting organisations, and while units often have an affiliation with a particular corps, almost all units will contain a mix of personnel from a range of different corps.

Employment Categories

Soldiers are employed within both Corps and Employment Categories. The Employment Category is the classification used to group and manage Army soldiers based on the major skills, functions and responsibilities they perform in their primary work role. A Corps may contain one or more Employment Category.

Employment Category’s relate directly to the skills held by soldiers. Each Employment Category has an authorised document (the Employment Specification) that provides a description of the employment category and associated service conditions by detailing the job, training, remuneration and trainee specifications. The Specification defines the level of skills required to be qualified in the Employment Category and that necessary to be promoted to higher ranks in the category.

Soldiers are able to transfer between Employment Categories in the course of their careers, either as part of progression within their trade or through retraining into another trade.

Employment Categories are sometimes referred to by their Employment Category Number (ECN). For example, an Infantry Soldier may hold the Employment Category of Rifleman (ECN 343).

Officers are not employed in Employment Categories, but specialisation and streams exist within certain Corps.


Army’s Disposition

The Australian Army has a presence in many parts of the country, ranging from major bases in cities and regional centres, through smaller bases, Army Reserve depots and the presence of Australian Army Cadets at local halls and schools across the country. This set of locations (or disposition) is the result of a number of factors, including strategic requirements, Government direction, the location of national and international support, and the historical evolution of Army.


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Glossary

The following definitions are as used in this document. While based on extant definitions, some have been amended to provide clarity of meaning or to highlight the specific intended use of the term.

Air defence Measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action.

Armour Generic term for the weapons systems that combine firepower, mobility and protection, and the military organisations that employ such systems.

Artillery Generic term for capability containing one or more of three components: offensive support, surveillance and target acquisition and Ground Based Air Defence.

Battlegroup A combined arms grouping based on the headquarters of an armoured cavalry or infantry unit.

Close (support) In combat and combat support, the delivery of an effect on a target or objective that is near to the supported elements of the combined arms team, regardless of the location of the actual weapon system providing the support – See Also Lines of Support.

Combat service support

Force elements providing sustainment, movement, distribution, health services, personnel services and equipment maintenance activities.

Combat support Force elements providing offensive support and operational assistance to combat elements.

Combat team A combined-arms grouping based upon a combat sub-unit headquarters.


Combat Force elements designed to engage the enemy with direct fire weapons.

Command support Force elements which enable commanders to execute their command responsibilities, exercise control and provide specialist advice.

Direct (fire support) That support provided from weapon systems with line of sight to the target – See Also Indirect (fire support).

Engineers Capability providing geospatial, combat and force support engineering capabilities to enable joint manoeuvre and survivability.

Indirect (fire support) That support provided from weapon systems without a direct line of sight to the target – See Also Direct (fire support).

Infantry Capability for close combat and seizing and holding ground. It is usually employed in a combined arms team but can also act independently in complex terrain where technological advantages are degraded.

Joint (inter-agency) task force

A combined arms grouping incorporating all elements of national power in an integrated framework, tailored and scaled to the requirements of a specific mission.

Lines of support First-line support pertains to resources and activities under the control of the unit commander for the provision of combat support to the unit.

Second-line support pertains to resources and activities under the control of a brigade commander for the provision of support to units organic to the brigade.

Third-line support comprises support provided to a force by elements not organic to combat formations.

Fourth-line support is provided by logistic or administrative organisations outside the theatre of operations.

Manoeuvre Employment of forces on the battlefield through movement in combination with fire or fire potential to achieve a position of advantage in respect to the enemy in order to accomplish the mission.

Mobility A quality or capability of military forces which permits them to move from place to place while retaining the ability to fulfil their primary mission.


Offensive support Offensive measures taken to support a commander in pursuing this mission, and may be organic to the Service of the supported unit or be provided by another Service, and includes naval surface fire support, fire support from any ground-based weapons system other than small arms, and offensive air support, including air reconnaissance and maritime strike.

Reconnaissance A mission undertaken to obtain, by visual observation or other detection methods, information about the activities and resources of an enemy or potential enemy, or to secure data concerning meteorological, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.

Signals As applied to organisations or generic capabilities, the combination of technical systems and capabilities employed to:

a. extend the range over which a commander and staff can exercise command and control;

b. disrupt enemy command and control; and

c. sustain and maintain command and control functions

Surveillance The systematic observation of aerospace, surface or sub-surface areas, places, persons, or things, by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.

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