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Images from Exercise Pitch Black
21 August 2006
As part of exercise Pitch Black, the RAAF is running an Air Operations Centre (AOC) from RAAF Base Glenbrook (near Sydney in the Blue Mountains) to plan and control the exercise air operations in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The purpose of an AOC is to provide centralised planning and control of air operations within a theatre or area of operations. It provides the critical link to translate national and command-level guidance and strategy into daily tasking in the form of an Air Tasking
Order (ATO). The ATO normally tasks operations for a 24-hour execution period. The AOC does this through a systematic, cyclical six-stage process called the Air Tasking Cycle. Normally this process takes 96 hours from the start of planning through the end of execution. The end result will be a demonstrated capability to plan and control coalition air operations from RAAF Glenbrook using procedures which are fully compatible with those of our partners. Rrepresentatives from France, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States participated in planning and executing operations from the AOC.
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Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston returns salute from an honour guard at RAAF Base Glenbrook during Exercise Pitch Black.
Date taken: 11 August 2006)
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Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston inspects an honour guard made up of Headquarters Air Command members at RAAF Base Glenbrook during Exercise Pitch Black
Date taken: 11 August 2006)
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Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston's hat and signature at the RAAF Base Glenbrook Officer's Mess during Exercise Pitch Black.
Date taken: 11 August 2006)
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Joint Force Air Component Commander Air Commodore Mark Skidmore, Base. Commander Wing Commander Brett Bishell, Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, Air Commander Australia, Air Vice- Marshal John Quaife, Headquarters Air Command Chief of Staff Air Commodore Steve Martin and other Headquarters Air Command members in the RAAF Base Glenbrook Officer's Mess gardens during Exercise Pitch Black.
Date taken: 11 August 2006)
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Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston briefs staff members in Combat Operations Division, a division of RAAF Glenbrook's Air Operations Centre (AOC), during Exercise Pitch Black.
Date taken: 11 August 2006)
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Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston briefs staff members in Combat Operations Division, a division of RAAF Glenbrook's Air Operations Centre (AOC), during Exercise Pitch Black.
Date taken: 11 August 2006)
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Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston (left) and Air Commander Australia Air Vice-Marshal John Quaife at the Exercise Pitch Black Air Operations Centre at RAAF Base Glenbrook.
Date taken: 11 August 2006)
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