RAAF Support Command

Support Command
Active	1959–90
Country	Australia
Branch	Royal Australian Air Force
Headquarters	Melbourne
Commanders
Notable commanders	Allan Walters (1959–62) [1] Frank Headlam (1966–67) [2] Colin Hannah (1968–69) [3]

Support Command was an organisation in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Headquartered in Melbourne, it was formed in 1959 from the amalgamation of RAAF Training and Maintenance Commands. ^[4] Support Command was split into Logistics Command and Training Command in 1990. ^[5] In 1997, logistics management became the responsibility of Support Command (Air Force), the RAAF component of the Defence-wide Support Command Australia (later subsumed by the Defence Materiel Organisation). ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Notes

1. "Air Vice-Marshals (L–Z)". Air Marshals of the RAAF. Air Power Development Centre. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
2. "Air Vice-Marshals (A–K)". Air Marshals of the RAAF. Air Power Development Centre. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
3. Coulthard-Clark, Chris (1996). "Hannah, Colin Thomas (1914–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN   978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN   1833-7538. OCLC   70677943 . Retrieved 12 July 2016.
4. Stephens, Going Solo, pp. 76–77
5. Dennis et al, The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, pp. 150–151
6. Stephens, The Royal Australian Air Force, p. 307
7. "Program 6: Support Command" (PDF). Defence Annual Report 1997–98. Department of Defence. 1998. p. 224. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
8. Horner, Making the Australian Defence Force, pp. 278–279

References

• Dennis, Peter; Grey, Jeffrey; Morris, Ewan; Prior, Robin (2008) [1995]. The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-551784-2.
• Horner, David (2001). The Australian Centenary History of Defence Volume IV: Making the Australian Defence Force. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-554117-5.
• Stephens, Alan (1995). Going Solo: The Royal Australian Air Force 1946–1971. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN   978-0-644-42803-3.
• Stephens, Alan (2006) [2001]. The Royal Australian Air Force: A History. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-555541-7.