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edit   The Military of Australia Portal The Military of Australia, officially known as the Australian Defence Force (ADF) since 1976, consists of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The Australian Department of Defence administers the Australian Defence Organisation (ADO) which consists of the ADF and the civilian personnel supporting the ADF. Approximately 53,000 men and women serve in the ADF with another 21,600 serving in the three reserve components. The ADF is constituted under the Executive Government sections of the Australian Constitution, Section 68, that says, "The command in chief of the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor-General as the Queen's representative." In practice, the control of the ADF is, politically, vested in the Minister for Defence and several subordinate ministers. The Minister acts on most matters alone, however, important matters are considered by the National Security Committee of Cabinet. The Minister then advises the Governor-General who acts as advised in the normal form of executive government. The current Chief of the Australian Defence Force is Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston. The Military history of Australia covers a period of around 200 years starting with the colonisation of Australia by the British in 1788. Australians have fought in nearly every major war of the 20th Century including the Second Boer War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War as well as numerous UN peace-keeping missions. More about the Australian military... Show new selections below... (purge) edit   Selected article The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the First Battle of the Solomon Sea, took place August 8–9, 1942, and was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval forces. The battle was the first major naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands campaign and a victory for Japan. Australia contributed two heavy cruiser to the battle, HMAS Australia and Canberra, navy Coastwatchers and a small number of Air Force aircraft. On August 9 Canberra was struck by two torpedoes and over 20 salvoes of 8 inch shellfire, Canberra was later scuttled by United States Navy destroyers. Suggest • More articles... edit   Selected picture Photo credit: Australian War Memorial collection database The entire 11th Battalion on the Great Pyramid of Giza on 10 January 1915 Suggest • More pictures... edit   Selected quote "the Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war - the spearhead of the British Army" — John Terraine, commenting on the fighting capability of the Anzac troops. Suggest • More quotes... edit   Selected anniversaries November 23 1901 - Second Boer War: Leslie Cecil Maygar is awarded the VC at Geelhoutboom, Natal 1944 - World War II: Australian troops relieve Americans at Cape Torokina, Bougainville 1948 - The Australian Regiment now known as the Royal Australian Regiment is formed Suggest • More anniversaries... edit   Did you know... ...that Alick Bryant is believed to have been the youngest Australian soldier to serve during the First World War? ...that AV2767 Crusader (pictured) was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II? ...that HMAS Wyatt Earp made an unsuccessful voyage to Antarctica while part of the RAN? Suggest • Archive... edit   New articles 37th Battalion (Australia) - 20 November 2011 Royal Australian Air Force Experimental Section - 20 November 2011 Battle of the Bismarck Sea order of battle - 20 November 2011 Wackett Warrigal - 18 November 2011 52nd Battalion (Australia) - 17 November 2011 54th Battalion (Australia) - 17 November 2011 56th Battalion (Australia) - 17 November 2011 48th Battalion (Australia) - 15 November 2011 50th Battalion (Australia) - 15 November 2011 Army No. 208 Wireless Set - 9 November 2011 Army No. 108 Wireless Set - 18 October 2011 Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy - 25 September 2011 List of ships of the Australian Army - 23 September 2011 MV Aase Maersk - 19 September 2011 HMAS Adelaide (LHD 02) - 18 September 2011 Archive... edit   News 8 November, 2010 - The Spitfire flown by and remains of Flight Lieutenant Henry Lacy Smith have been found in Normandy. He was killed after being shot down five days after D-Day during World War II.Read more... 16 March, 2010 - The remains of Special Air Service Patrolman Lieutenant Kenneth Hudson and Private Robert Moncrieff have been found after been missing in action since 1966 during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation.Read more... 18 February, 2010 - AN Australian Defence Force inquiry has backed navy seamen who saved their colleagues before asylum seekers when a boat exploded near Ashmore Reef last year. Read more... 13 February, 2010 - Japan, Australia To Sign Military Logistics Pact-Nikkei. Read more... 30 July, 2009 - The remains of Flying Officer Michael Herbert and Pilot Officer Robert Carver, missing in action (MIA) in Vietnam have been found. They were the last Australian MIA in Vietnam. Read more... 16 January, 2009 - Trooper Mark Donaldson is awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia following his actions in Afghanistan on 2 September 2008. Read more... Archive... edit   Selected biography John Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), also known as Jack Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I. He landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 and, on that first night, took a donkey and began carrying wounded from the battle line to the beach for evacuation. He continued this work for three and a half weeks, many times under direct fire, until he was killed. Today, Simpson and his Donkey are an Anzac legend. Kirkpatrick is probably the best known soldier of the First Australian Imperial Force. Suggest • More biographies... edit   Daily unit The second HMAS Tobruk is a Landing Ship Heavy (LSH) of the Royal Australian Navy, based on the design of the "Sir" class of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Tobruk was the first purpose built amphibious vessel in the RAN, and is designed as a multi-purpose, ro-ro heavy lift and transport vessel - the ship can be loaded via ramps at both the bow and stern, and can be purposely beached. Tobruk can carry up to eighteen Leopard 1 MBTs and 40 APCs and has a standard capacity of 300 troops, with an overload capacity of 520. Tobruk has been actively deployed to a number of combat zones, including Somalia in 1991. More units... edit   Selected equipment The F-111C is a version of the United States' F-111 tactical strike aircraft developed specifically for Australia. The F-111C combines F-111A/E avionics with the long-span wings and heavier landing gear originally designed for the F-111B. Twenty-four F-111Cs were originally ordered in 1963 and entered service in 1973. Four aircraft were modified to RF-111C reconnaissance configuration, while retaining their strike capability. An additional four ex-USAF F-111As were refitted to F-111Cs and delivered to Australia as attrition replacements. The F-111Cs have been continuously upgraded and are scheduled to remain in service until 2010. Suggest • More equipment... edit   WikiProjects History of Australia Military History Australian military history task force edit   Major topics Army • History Armoured Units, Army Aviation, Australian Imperial Force, Brigades, Cadets, College, Enlisted Ranks, Memorial, Officer Ranks, RAR, Regiments, Senior Officers, Regional Surveillance Units, Structure, VC Recipients, Weapons RAAF • History Aircraft, Airfield Defence Guards, Bases, Chief of Air Force, Flights, First Tactical Air Force, Ranks, Roulettes, Squadrons, Structure RAN • History Admiral of the Fleet, Bases, Cadets, Clearance Divers, Current Ships, Fleet Air Arm, Future, Historic ships, HMAS, Memorial, Patrol Boat Group, Persian Gulf Operations, RANVR, Reserve, Ship classes, Silent Service, WRANS Special Forces 1st Commando Regiment, 171st Squadron, 200 Squadron, 4 RAR, Coastwatchers, Incident Response Regiment, SASR, SOCOMD, Tactical Assault Group, WWII Companies, Z Special Unit edit   Featured, A-Class and Good content Featured articles: Adrian Cole (RAAF officer) • AHS Centaur • Alexander Pentland • Arthur Henry Cobby • Attack on Sydney Harbour • Australian Defence Force • Axis naval activity in Australian waters • Battle of Arras (1917) • Battle of Cape Esperance • Battle of Greece • Battle of Morotai • Battle of Rennell Island • Battle of Savo Island • Battle of Tassafaronga • Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo • Battle of the Eastern Solomons • Blair Anderson Wark • Bruce Kingsbury • Charles Eaton (RAAF officer)‎ • Convoy GP55 • Edgar Towner • Edmund Herring • Ellis Wackett • Frank Hubert McNamara • Frederick Scherger • George Jones (RAAF officer) • Guadalcanal Campaign • Harry Murray • Henry Wells (general) • HMAS Melbourne (R21) • Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942) • Issy Smith • James Newland • James Whiteside McCay • Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer) • John Lerew • John Lloyd Waddy • John Whittle • List of Australian George Cross recipients • List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients • Michael Woodruff • Military history of Australia during World War II • Morotai Mutiny • Naval Battle of Guadalcanal • Neil Hamilton Fairley • Otto Becher • Raymond Brownell • Richard Williams (RAAF officer) • Shrine of Remembrance • Stanley Goble • Thomas Baker (aviator) • Tom Derrick • Victoria Cross for Australia • Walter Peeler‎ • William Bostock‎ A Class: Admiralty Islands campaign • Air Combat Group RAAF • Australian light destroyer project • Battle of Kaiapit • Battle of Morotai • Cedric Howell • Clare Stevenson • Clarence Smith Jeffries • Frank Berryman • Frank Bladin • George Alan Vasey • George Julian Howell • George Ingram • Henry Burrell (RAN officer) • Henry George Chauvel • Henry Wrigley • Joseph Maxwell • Landing at Saidor • Lewis McGee • No. 1 Wing RAAF • Operation Brevity • Oswald Watt • Percy Herbert Cherry • Percy Statton • Rupert Downes • Samuel Burston • Stanley Savige • Sydney Rowell • Teddy Sheean • Tet Offensive • Vernon Sturdee • Battle of Bita Paka • Operation Coburg • First Battle of Maryang San Good articles: • Alister Murdoch • Australian Army Reserve • Battle of Amiens • Battle of France • Battle of Kranji • British nuclear tests at Maralinga • Charles Crombie • Charles Scherf • Colin Hannah • Elwyn King • Eric Harrison (RAAF officer) • Ernest Albert Corey • Frank Lukis • Frederick Birks • George Mackinolty • Henry Petre • Hippolyte De La Rue • HMAS Sydney (1934) • History of the Royal Australian Navy • Hobart coastal defences • Hughie Edwards • Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond • Richard Minifie • Robert A. Little • Roy Phillipps • Russell Foskett • Second Battle of Passchendaele • Selarang Barracks Incident • Virgil Brennan • Wilfrid Kent Hughes • William Ellis Newton • Australian contribution to the Allied Intervention in Russia 1918–1919 edit   Categories Military of Australia Army • Awards • Bases • Education • Equipment • Facilities • Military aviation • Military lists • Personnel • RAAF • RAN • Ranks • Special forces • Weapons • Stubs • Units Military history of Australia Attacks against Australia • Battles • Conscription in Australia • Memorials • Australia during World War I • Australia during World War II • Australia during the Korean War • Australia during the Vietnam War edit   Things you can do Attention needed  ...to referencing and citation • ...to coverage and accuracy • ...to structure • ...to grammar • ...to supporting materials Popular pages  Full list Cleanup needed  Battle of Milne Bay, 1st Armoured Division (Australia) • 2nd Division (Australia) • 4th Division (Australia) • 8th Division (Australia) • History of the Royal Australian Navy • Second Australian Imperial Force • Military history of New Zealand • Military history of New Zealand in World War I • Military history of New Zealand during World War II • 2nd Division (New Zealand) • New Zealand Army • New Zealand in the Vietnam War • Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Requested articles  Glen Cooper (RAAF Officer) [1] • Basil John Andrew • Henry Bachtold • Charles Stanley Barber • Lewis Ernest Stephen Barker • Leslie Ellis Beavis • Rudolph Bierwirth • Allan Joseph Boase • Harry Charles Bundock • Frederick Alexander Burrows • Cecil Arthur Callaghan • Claude Ewen Cameron • Grant Cavenagh • John Austin Chapman • Frederick Hay Christison • John August Clareborough • Henry Coates • Jack Kerr Coffey • Bertrand Combes • John Craven • John Wilson Crawford • Ralph Daly • Charles Stewart Davies • Harold Charles de Low • Francis Plumly Derham • Harold Clive Disher • William Huggett Douglas • Geoffrey Drake-Brockman • Herbert Frederick Henry Durant • Leslie Glanville Howard Dyke • Cedric Rupert Vaughan Edgar • Henry Herrick Edwards • Cyril Maurice Lloyd Elliott • Bernard Evans • Albert Cecil Fewtrell • Frederick Percy Herbert Fewtrell • Alexander Moore Forbes • Neil Mackenzie Freeman • Stephen Gilbert Friend • Frederick Gallagher Galleghan • Vivian Harrold Gatliff • Arthur Harry Langman Godfrey • Eugene Gorman • Peter Haddad • William Allan Hailes • Eric Fairweather Harrison • Neville Gordon Hatton • William Alexander Henderson • John Hill • Frederick Brock Hinton • Oswald Vick Hoad • Austin Claude Selwyn Holland • Maurice Barber Bevan Keating • Douglas Oswald Luke Kitto • Errol Knox • George Furner Langley • Ian Lillie • Charles Edward Maurice Lloyd • John Edward Lloyd • William James Macavoy Locke • Thomas Steane Louch • Leonard Cuthbert Lucas • Daniel Aston Luxton • John Walter Main • Gordon Edward Manchester • James Eric Gifford Martin • Athelsan Markham Martyn • Duncan Struan Maxwell • John Maxwell • Patrick Sanfield McGrath • Eric George Henderson McKenzie • Kenneth Alan McKenzie • Douglas Murray McWhae • Charles George N. 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