School a joint effort

THE Air Force, Army and Navy have combined to form a joint school that will become the Australian Defence Force’s centre of military communications.

A tri-service parade held on December 4 at Simpson Barracks at MacLeod, in Melbourne’s north-east, marked the formation of the Defence Force School of Signals and the Air Force’s Communications and Information Systems Controller Training Section.

The amalgamation brought together communication and information systems training from the three services to create common training development and management across a number of trades.

Joint training will also allow the Australian Defence Force to keep pace with technological change and reflect national training standards.

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