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Welcome shelter for 1 Div troops
By Cpl Corinne Boer

Edition 1162, March 22, 2007
 
Comfortable cabin: Cpl Brooke Shaw emerges from a new shelter.
Photo by Cpl Corinne Boer
 
WHAT’S IN THE BOX
Unassembled size is 1.2m x 6m, expands to almost three times internal volume

Environmentally controlled – integrated with 2 x 5.9 kW vertical ECUs

Accepts deployable DSN/DRN

Briefing room capability: projector, screen, map boards, UPS, 25 personnel capacity

Work room capability: room for up to 12 people
BETTER conditions for communications equipment and personnel will benefit members of HQ 1 Div on future operations following the delivery of four expandable hard shelters.

The cabins were officially received in a ceremony at Gallipoli Barracks on February 21.

Maj-Gen Ash Power, Commander 1 Div, escaped the midday heat in the air-conditioned interior of one of the shelters when he received a brief on its features.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen this, but already it’s obvious to me it’s going to be a significant enhancement to our operational capability, our ability to deploy and re-deploy and to get all our communications set up in a good and timely manner,” he said.

The four-tonne structure is designed to be assembled quickly, according to project director Lt-Col Rick Parker.

“Once you get it in the field you drop the sides down and they become the floor, which makes it about three times the size of a shipping container,” he said.

“Some of the advantages are that it provides an air-conditioned environment for the IT systems to work better and also for the personnel inside to work better.

“The shelters are quicker to erect, are dust-proof, light-proof and waterproof. They are a briefing room, staff room or general office.”