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Bases Flashcards

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Bases in NT?

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RAAF Base Darwin

RAAF Base Tindal

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Bases in queensland?

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RAAF Base Townsville
RAAF Base Amberley
RAAF Base Scherger

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Bases in NSW?

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RAAF Base Williamtown
RAAF Base Glenbrook
RAAF Base Richmond
RAAF Base Wagga

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Bases in ACT?

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Russell Offices

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Bases in SA?

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RAAF Base Edinburgh

RAAF Woomera

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Bases in Victoria?

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RAAF Base East Sale

RAAF Williams

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Bases in WA?

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RAAF Base Pearce
RAAF Base Curtin
RAAF Base Learmonth

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Most likely posting locations?

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No. 87SQN Headquarters, RAAF Base Edinburgh, SA

No. 87SQN Tactical Intelligence Flights located at:

  • RAAF Base Edinburgh SA
  • RAAF Base Amberly, QLD
  • RAAF Base Williamtown, NSW
  • RAAF Base Richmond, NSW
  • RAAF Base Tindal, NT
  • No. 460SQN, Canberra ACT
  • No. 462SQN, RAAF Base Edinburgh, SA
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Additional possible posting locations?

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  • Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), ACT
  • Defence Intelligence Organisation, ACT
  • HQ Air Command: Air and Space Operations Centre, Bungendore, NSW
  • HQ Joint Operations Command, Bungendore, NSW
  • HQ Air Command - RAAF Glenbrook, NSW
  • Defence Force School of Intelligence, Canungra, QLD
  • Air Intelligence Training Unit, RAAF Base Edinburgh, SA
  • Defence Force School of Signals - Electronic Warfare Wing at Cabarlah, QLD.
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Operations at Russel offices

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  • administrative head
  • headquarters
  • No 34 Squadron, based at Defence Establishment Fairbairn
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Operations at RAAF Base Williamtown

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  • Tactical fighter element of the Air Combat Group
  • The Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) element of Surveillance and Response Group
  • planned to remain the RAAF’s main fighter pilot training base
  • will house most of the planned F-35A Joint Strike Fighter
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Operations at RAAF Base Glenbrook

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  • Home to Air Command; raise, train and sustain Air Force’s air and space power to meet Government objectives
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Operations at RAAF Base Richmond

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best known for being home to our C-130 Hercules

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Operations at RAAF Base Wagga

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  • delivers initial employment and postgraduate training
  • supports two key headquarters of Wings from Air Force Training Group - RAAF College and Ground Training Wing
    4 major training groups:
    • No 1 Recruit Training Unit;
    • School of Postgraduate Studies;
      -RAAF School of Technical Training; and
      -RAAF School of Administration and Logistics Training
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Operations at RAAF Base Darwin

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  • one of the Air Force’s main forward operating bases
  • undertakes a supporting role in major exercises held in NT
  • Notable exercises include Pitch Black; High Sierra; and Diamond Storm
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Operations at RAAF Base Tindal

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  • Air Force’s youngest operational base (except for bare bases)
  • one of Australia’s most important defence sites.
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Operations at RAAF Base Townsville

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forward operating base

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Operations at RAAF Base Scherger

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  • completes a series of strategic outposts reaching from Learmonth in Western Australia to the Cape York Peninsula
  • designed so that operational units can move into existing facilities at little or no notice for defence requirements or exercises
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Operations at RAAF Base Amberley

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Air Force’s largest base and employs over 5000 people.

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Operations at RAAF Base Edinburgh

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  • primarily home to the Air Warfare Centre
  • No 92 Wing’s AP-3C Orion and P-8A Poseidon aircraft which conduct surveillance operations throughout Australia’s airspace
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Operations at Woomera Range Complex

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  • provide a specialised operations environment in support of directed whole-of-Defence activities for the testing of war materiel and, other directed activities in the wider National interest
  • supports a wide variety of trials covering many defence related technologies including ground-based weapons systems, explosive ordnance and hazardous materials, and specialised force preparation activities
  • operational support
  • ‘sharpen the spear’, further alludes to its primary function in supporting the enhancement of the ADF’s war-fighting effectiveness.
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Operations at RAAF Base East Sale

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  • plays a major role in training the next generation of Air Force personnel under the Air Training Wing: Air combat training school and Air traffic controllers
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Operations at RAAF Base Williams

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  • the main function now is training
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Operations at RAAF Base Pearce

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  • one of the busiest RAAF bases in the country in terms of total aircraft movements
  • home to No 2 Flying Training School and No 79 Squadron
  • the primary role is pilot training but is also the only permanent RAAF Base on the west coast and thus has a significant logistics role
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Operations at RMAF Base Butterworth

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  • Air Force Station of the RMAF, and headquarters of the Five Power Defence Arrangements Integrated Area Defence System (HQIADS)
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Planes at Williamtown

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  • F/A-18 Hornet
  • Hawk Mk127 aircraft
  • PC-9/A Forward Air Control aircraft
  • AEW&C E-7A Wedgetail aircraft

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