Australian Army Entry

[ShotOver]

I wish to join the Australian army once I leave school, as a rifleman. For that I need:

“You must have passed Year 9 with passes in English and Maths.”

I passed year 9, but my math was a “C” which isn’t a high pass. But I can easily do that level of mathematics. Do they look at your grades or the outcome of the education testing?

Also, I could not get this question answered from the recruiter. But at my school we had Math level 1, Math level 2, Math level 3, Math level 4 and Math level 5. Math level 1 being the highest, and full of the smartest people.
I was in math level 5, and I want to know if that still counts as “Year 9 math”

Thank you for any help.

[Mortimer]

how old are you?.............your still in school? if you've gone past yr9 then they count what you've done so far.

Y9 is the absolute minimum they'll accept

if you failed yr9 maths but passed your school certificate, HSC then your right.

[ShotOver]

Yeah, i'm yr11. So i'm 16.

Passed yr9, yr10 with flying colours.

[Mortimer]

well then you've gt nothing to worry about.

also if you pass English and three other subjects(not including maths) in yr 12 you can apply to be an officer.....just a thought.

[ShotOver]

Yeah, so you reckon it's all good? :D

What unit do you serve with?

[digrar]

There is a fair bit of competition for rifleman spots at the moment. So the better your overall application is the better chance you have of being successfull.
6RAR just dropped a rifle company so there are currently 100 less spots in the regiment.

[James]

How is the Australian Army organized? Like the Brits, with nice regimental names and the like? This is a serious question - please don't read any sarcasm into it.

[catalyst]

Good and very reasonable question James.

The Army is regulated into Regiment of which the Royal Australian Regiment is the only REAL war fighting capable unit apart from the SASRegt or 1st Cdo. Regt and even that is questionable at times. As seen by Ex Croc '03 it is a struggle and major strain tp deploy 10,000 men for the Field Ex currently being held.

Here is the official Army Organisational Tree as found on the www.army.gov.au web site.

The file is a .pdf so interested will need 2 visit the site personally

http://www.defence.gov.au/army/organisation/05052003ArmyOrgChartInternet.pdf

[Mortimer]

Yeah, so you reckon it's all good? :D

What unit do you serve with?
I serve in the RAA...nuff said

[James]

Thanks for the links. Another question - How large is the Australian military?

[ShotOver]

6RAR just dropped a rifle company so there are currently 100 less spots in the regiment.

So where do the guys go?

[Mortimer]

Thanks for the links. Another question - How large is the Australian military?
about 55,000 and that includes army, navy, airforce and reserves

[digrar]

So where do the guys go?

The officers would go off to other appointments that is if there was even a full compliment in the company. The NCOs and diggers would be absorbed into the Battalion or be posted out to other units in the Regiment. I would imagine that the company wasn't running at a full manning so the Battalion would be able to soak up the spare blokes pretty easy.

[Aussie2093]

The Australian Army has around 24,000 personnel, with approximately 11,000 of those being combat ready. Can you believe there are only 70 Leopard 1 tanks in the Army, tasked to defence all of Australia (roughly the size of the 48 combined States of the U.S.), it's a scary thought.

[Aussie2093]

The Australian Army has around 24,000 personnel, with approximately 11,000 of those being combat ready. Can you believe there are only 70 Leopard 1 tanks in the Army, tasked to defence all of Australia (roughly the size of the 48 combined States of the U.S.), it's a scary thought.

[oldsoak]

What about reservists ? Also Australia is pretty vast and it would be impossible to hold by invaders, surely ? Small unit tactics would work like a dream in your favour. Plus the US and the UK would get involved pretty ****to.
rgds

[oldsoak]

sorry, just did the maths on an earlier post. Ignore question on reservists
rgds

[Aussie2093]

oldsoak, the threat of invasion has been non-existant since the Japanese in WW2. No country in the world is that stupid, even without immediate military intervention from the UK AND US. There are a number of countries out there that are beyond being controlled by direct military invasion and Australia is one of them. However the numbers are still amusing...

For a comparison, the U.S. has approx. 7,900 M1A1's and A2's.
(im just throwing numbers around so everyone chill)

[Aussie2093]

Ok, I got the book with the info out, so here's the fine print:

"The present Australian army is 24,100 strong, including 2,600 women, and with some 12,000 personnel being available to the combat units. It is currently in the process of a considerable investment program to provide mobility, logistics, and aviation support necessary to produce a readily deployable force capable of operating throughout much of Southeast Asia."

FIREPOWER

Airborne:

25 UH1H armed helicopters
35 S70 helicopters
40 B206 B1 helicopters
17 AS350B helicopters
6 CH47 Chinook helicopters

Armour:

71 Leopard 1A3 main battle tanks
111 ASLAV-25 light armoured vehicles
463 M113 armoured personnel carriers

Infantry:

296 81mm mortars
577 84mm Carl Gustav anti-tank
74 106mm M40A1 anti-tank

Artillery:

246 105mm M2A2/L5 towed
104 105mm Hamel towed
35 155mm M198 towed

Missiles:

19 Rapier towed surface-to-air
17 RBS-70 Portable surface-to-air

This is just the Australian Army and does not include assets from the RAAF, RAN or any other branches of the ADF.

This information is very vague and is probably missing alot but gives you an idea.

The book is "Fighting Forces" by Richard Bennett
"An illustrated anatomy of the world's great armies"
I recommend to all.

[Mortimer]

i was talking to an infantry WO and he said we are getting javelins at the end of next year sometime.

[BiZ]

i was talking to an infantry WO and he said we are getting javelins at the end of next year sometime.

East and West Coast are in the process of taking intial "trial" delivery in small numbers (as usual) before the official final 'trial' takes place and they are adopted.

Pernsonally, I was impressed with the german "Bunkerfaust" unit and wouldn't mind seeing something similar adopted for certain units. (please please please)......