Commander Forces Command (Australia)

Commander Forces Command of the Australian Defence Force (Australian Army)
Incumbent Gus Gilmore since January 2015
Style	Major General
Inaugural holder	David Morrison

Commander Forces Command (COMD FORCOMD) is a senior Australian Army appointment created in July 2009. The incumbent holds the rank of Major General (Australia) (two-star rank).

The position was created by the merging of the previous Land Commander Australia (LCAUST) and Commander Training Command (COMD TC-A) positions.

Appointees

The following list chronologically records those who have held the post of Commander Forces Command or its preceding positions. Rank and honours are as at the completion of the individual's tour(s).

Rank	Name	Post- Nominals	Term began	Term ended	Time in Appointment
Land Commander Australia
Major General	O'Donnell, LawrenceLawrence O'Donnell	AO	1986	1987	1 year, 0 days
Major General	Arnison, PeterPeter Arnison	AO	1994	1996	2 years, 0 days
Major General	Hickling, FrankFrank Hickling	AO, CSC	1996	1998	2 years, 0 days
Major General	Hartley, JohnJohn Hartley	AO	1998	2000	2 years, 0 days
Major General	Abigail, PeterPeter Abigail	AO	2000	December 2002	2 years, 334 days
Major General	Hurley, DavidDavid Hurley	AO, DSC	December 2002	December 2003	1 year, 0 days
Major General	Gillespie, KenKen Gillespie	AO, DSC, CSM	January 2004	July 2005	1 year, 181 days
Major General	Kelly, MarkMark Kelly	AO	July 2005	December 2008	3 years, 153 days
Major General	Morrison, DavidDavid Morrison	AM	December 2008	July 2009	33 days
Commander Forces Command
Major General	Morrison, DavidDavid Morrison	AO	July 2009	June 2011	1 year, 335 days
Major General	Sengelman, JeffreyJeffrey Sengelman	DSC, AM, CSC	June 2011	November 2011	153 days
Major General	Slater, MichaelMichael Slater	AO, DSC, CSC	November 2011	23 January 2015	3 years, 83 days
Major General	Gilmore, GusGus Gilmore	AO, DSC	23 January 2015	Present	1 year, 101 days

Forces Command

Forces Command is the primary command for the land forces of the Australian Army.^[1]

Formations:

2 Division	1 Brigade	3 Brigade
4 Brigade 5 Brigade 8 Brigade 9 Brigade 11 Brigade 13 Brigade	1st Armoured Regiment 2 Cavalry Regiment 5 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 7 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 8/12 Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery 1 Combat Engineer Regiment 1 Combat Signal Regiment 1 Combat Service Support Battalion	3/4 Cavalry Regiment 1 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 2 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 3 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 4 Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery 3 Combat Engineer Regiment 3 Combat Signal Regiment 3 Combat Service Support Battalion
6 Brigade	7 Brigade	16 Aviation Brigade
1 Ground Liaison Group 1 Intelligence Battalion 2/30 Training Group 6 Engineer Support Regiment 7 Signal Regiment 16 Air Land Regiment 19 Chief Engineer Works 20 Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment 51 Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment North-West Mobile Force Pilbara Regiment	2/14 Light Horse Regiment 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 8/9 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 1 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery 4 Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery 2 Combat Engineer Regiment 7 Combat Signal Regiment 7 Combat Service Support Battalion	1 Aviation Regiment 5 Aviation Regiment 6 Aviation Regiment
17 Combat Service Support Brigade
2 Force Support Battalion 9 Force Support Battalion 10 Force Support Battalion 1 Health Support Battalion 2 Health Support Battalion 3 Health Support Battalion 1 Psychology Unit 1 Military Police Battalion 17 Signals Regiment

History

Training Command

Headquarters Training Command was the headquarters of the Australian Army's Training Command (TC-A), which was one of the Army's three commands. The other two where Land Command and Special Operations Command. In 2002 it relocated from Georges Heights, Sydney to Victoria Barracks, Sydney.^[2][3][4]

In 2010 Training Command merged with Land Command to form Forces Command.

References

1. Adaptive Army - Adaptive Army Public Paper
2. "Visitor Guide - Headland Park" (PDF). Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
3. "Headquarters Training Command Victoria Barracks". Retrieved 26 June 2010.
4. "Victoria Barracks (Sydney)". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 26 June 2010.