Record recruit numbers

Volume 49, No. 5, April 6, 2006

IN FORCE: A single day recruitment record was set in Perth recently when 20 newcomers signed up for a career in the Navy. Many of them left the ceremony and headed straight to HMAS Cerberus for 11 weeks of recruit training.

Defence Force Recruiting Centre – Perth celebrated a record number Navy recruit enlistment on March 13.
Twenty young men and women made their commitment to the Navy in front of their friends and family in the packed enlistment room of the Perth Recruiting Centre.

CMDR Paul Bartlett, Commanding Officer of HMAS Stirling, shared a few words of encouragement and advice before presenting the Navy’s newest recruits with their Certificates of Enlistment.

CMDR Bartlett said that the enlistment ceremony was a proud moment in the lives of the young men and women and represented the beginning of their service life and career.

The recruits have passed the rigorous selection process to fill some of Navy’s most critical billets.

Amongst the group there were Marine, Electronics and Avian Technicians, Combat Systems Operators, Communication and information Systems Sailors, Clearance Divers, Medical Assistants and Stewards. And even a Navy Reserve Musician.

Many of them left the ceremony and headed straight for the airport on route to HMAS Cerberus and 11 weeks of recruit training.

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