Employment Training
Other Ranks (Non Technical)
Basic Driver Course: 45 days at Puckapunyal, Victoria.
This training involves instruction in driving loaded and unloaded military vehicles in built up areas, open roads and in the field tactical environment. On completion of this training soldiers are qualified to operate Landrover 110 and Unimogs.
Basic and Specialist Combat Communications courses: 4 weeks at Army Aviation Training Centre, Oakey, QLD.
This training involves the operation and maintenance of all in service radios, VHF and HF antenna theory, different antenna configurations, the operation of ancillary equipment such as Remoting and Retransmission operations and radio telephone procedures.
Battlefield Command Support System courses: 1 week at Army Aviation Training Centre, Oakey, QLD.
This training involves a highly integrated software system designed to process data from various sources to produce a comprehensive picture of the battlefield.
Command Post Operator course: 8 weeks at Army Aviation Training Centre, Oakey, QLD.
This training involves Operational Symbology, Flight Following, Command Post Operations and Computer Operations. On completion of this training you will be entitled to Pay Group 3.
Groundcrewman Mission Support Command Post Operators can progress to sergeant (Supervisor Aviation Squadron Operations) Pay Group 5 and then progress further to warrant officer class two Aviation Operations Manager Pay Group 6.