The Australian Defence Force Academy ( ADFA ) and the Royal Military College, Duntroon ( RMC ) are in the suburb of Campbell in Canberra's inner northeast.

Defence is the responsibility of Australia, and the territory is visited regularly by the Royal Australian Navy.

The Australian Defence Force issues soldiers two tags of different shapes: Number 1 Tag ( the octagonal shaped disc ) and Number 2 Tag ( the circular disc ).

* Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station ( Geraldton, Western Australia )

The Governor-General is President of the Federal Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

* 1901 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( b. 1832 )

* Australian Defence Force Academy

The Defence Act of 1903 granted the Australian federal government the powers to conscript men of military age for home defense.

Two more Australian personnel were seconded as advisers on logistics and personnel matters in August 2006, while an Australian bureaucrat from the Department of Defence is posted to the PNG defence department.

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* Aspects of thermobaric weaponry ( PDF ) – Dr. Anna E Wildegger-Gaissmaier, Australian Defence Force Health

* January 10 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( born 1832

Soon after The Australian Financial Review published a more in-depth piece on the Australian Intelligence Community ( ASIO, ASIS, the Joint Intelligence Organisation ( JIO ) the Defence Intelligence Organisation ( DIO ), the Defence Signals Division ( DSD ) the Defence Signals Directorate and the Office of National Assessments ( ONA )).

Defence Signals Directorate ( DSD ) is an Australian government intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) and information security ( INFOSEC ).

* to provide information security products and services to the Australian Government and its Defence Force.

Electronic warfare operators in the Royal Australian Corps of Signals work closely with the Defence Signals Directorate.

The DSD operates at least two receiving stations: the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station ( ADSCS ), located at Kojarena, near Geraldton in Western Australia, and the Shoal Bay Receiving Station, located at Shoal Bay, Northern Territory.

* Australian Defence College, located at Weston Creek in Canberra

The Australian Army's officer corps are trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy is also located in the capital.

Following a burglary, a murder, and two attempted murders in Adelaide during March 1838, Governor Hindmarsh created the South Australian Police Force ( now named South Australia Police ) in April 1838 under 21-year-old Henry Inman.

* 1925 – Anthony Mason, Australian judge and Air Force Officer, Chief Justice of Australia

Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow

* Royal Australian Air Force

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With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

The governor also traditionally serves as Honorary and Regimental Colonel in the Royal New South Wales Regiment and as Honorary Air Commodore of No. 22 ( City of Sydney ) Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

In May 1940, without resigning his seat, Holt joined the Second Australian Imperial Force as a gunner, but a few months later three Cabinet ministers and several of Australia's top military staff were killed in an air crash in Canberra.

Within a short time the beach and the water off shore were being searched by a large contingent of police, Royal Australian Navy divers, Royal Australian Air Force helicopters, Army personnel from nearby Point Nepean and local volunteers.

Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948.

One month after his 18th birthday on 19 May 1944 Brabham enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

* 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

The militia, worn out and severely depleted by casualties, were relieved in late August by regular troops from the Second Australian Imperial Force, returning from action in the Mediterranean theater.

In early September 1942 Japanese marines attacked a strategic Royal Australian Air Force base at Milne Bay, near the eastern tip of Papua.

The Supreme Commander of operations was the United States General Douglas Macarthur, with Australian General Thomas Blamey taking a direct role in planning and operations being essentially directed by staff at New Guinea Force headquarters in Port Moresby.

Askin enlisted as a Private in the Second Australian Imperial Force on 30 March 1942.

The USAF, USMC, US Army, US Navy, and FAA as well as a number of international ATC training organizations such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Civil Aviation Authorities in Italy, Brazil, and Canada are currently using ATC simulators with speech recognition from a number of different vendors.

The Returned and Services League of Australia ( often abbreviated to RSL ) is a support organisation for men and women who have served or are serving in the Australian Defence Force ( ADF ).

Planning for the deployment of ADF units to the Middle East began in mid 2002 when Australian officers were attached to United States planning teams.

In practice, however, the Governor-General does not play an active part in the ADF's command structure, and the elected Australian Government controls the ADF.

These have included Operation Gold, the provision of ADF support to the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 ; Operation Deluge, the provision of security to the 2007 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum meetings in Sydney ; and Operation Ramp, the evacuation of Australian and foreign nationals from Lebanon in 2006 during the conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.

Operation Slipper is the Australian Defence Force ( ADF ) contribution to the war in Afghanistan.

* In April 2006, the Australian Government was reported to have chosen EADS MRH-90 troop-lift helicopters in preference to U. S. Sikorsky models because “ the European bid offered the ADF better access to crucial computer source code than the Sikorsky bid ”.

Usually, around 2 % of Australians take a year off prior to attending tertiary education and choose to travel abroad ( usually South East Asia or Europe ) or within Australia backpacking, and within the last decade students join the Australian Defense Force in the ADF's Gap Year program, some opt to stay on in the ADF, but others do continue on to tertiary education.

Established as a restricted access township in 1947, Woomera Defence Village is an Australian Defence Force ( ADF ) facility supporting the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) Woomera Test Range ( WTR ) which, today, is used to evaluate military and civilian missile, ordnance, and aerospace systems.

He conducted the 2001 Inquiry into Military Justice in the Australian Defence Force, which concluded that there was not a culture of widespread or systemic avoidance of due disciplinary processes, nor the use of violence to maintain discipline, in the ADF.

The Australian Defence Organisation ( ADO ) is an Australian Government organisation which consists of the Australian Defence Force ( ADF ) and the civilian Department of Defence personnel supporting the ADF.

On 1 January 1976, the three branches of the Australian military were brought together as a unified, all-volunteer, professional force known as the Australian Defence Force ( ADF ).

In line with this goal, the ADF was restructured to increase its ability to strike at enemy forces from Australian bases and to counter raids on continental Australia.

The Australian contribution was the first time Australian personnel were deployed to an active war zone since the establishment of the ADF and the deployment tested its capabilities and command structure.

Since the late 1980s, the Australian government had increasingly called upon the ADF to contribute forces to peacekeeping missions around the world.

The Australian government committed to improve the ADF's capabilities by improving the readiness and equipment of ADF units, expanding the ADF to 57, 000 full-time personnel and increasing real Defence expenditure by 3 % per year.

Operation Relex is the name given to the Australian Defence Force ( ADF ) border protection operation in the country's northern approaches conducted between 2001 and 2006.