Employment Training

Australian Defence Force Academy, Graduate, Officer, Officer (Reserve)

Following your military training, your first posting will be to No. 87 Squadron, the Air Force's Intelligence Squadron, based at RAAF Edinburgh in South Australia. While at 87 Squadron, you will undertake your initial employment training for Air Intelligence Officers, which consists of:

• Air Operations Intelligence Familiarisation Course - 2 weeks;
• Initial Defence Intelligence Course - 3 Weeks;
• Defence Intelligence Research and Analysis Course - 2 weeks; and
• Air Intelligence Officer Basic Course - 12 Weeks.

These courses are conducted by the Defence Intelligence Training Centre which is located at Kokoda Barracks, Canungra, QLD.

You will then complete 87 Squadron's Intelligence Graduate Development Program (the IGDP), which is designed to consolidate the knowledge gained during your initial employment training and develop your intelligence skills and knowledge to the high operational standard required. This program is conducted at 87SQN's headquarters in Adelaide. On completion of the IGDP, you will then be posted to your first job as a fully trained Intelligence Officer.

You can also expect to complete further specialist training courses in Weapons Systems, Electronic Warfare and in Languages Other Than English in your first few years of employment in this specialisation.

Prospective applicants for Reserve entry as Intelligence Officers into the RAAFAR should be aware that in the first three or four years there is a considerable training obligation. This will involve blocks of training periods of several weeks duration, conducted away from the home location, and must be completed before being employed as an Intelligence Officer.