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A Tale of Two Floods.. And a Cyclone!
Brigadier Peter Jeffrey
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Reserve commitment within a wider ADF commitment 11th Brigade January 2011 Response Observations
The Way ahead Reserve Military Engineers
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Joint Task Force 637 was established Headquarters 1st Division (initially) Headquarters 7th Brigade
11th Brigade provided forces to JTF637 RAAF and RAN
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Queensland’s Army Reserve Coolangatta to Cairns 1950 part-time/150 full-time Infantry (3x battalions – 1300) Logisticians (1x battalion – 300) Engineers (1x squadron – 100) Signallers (1x small squadron – 40) Others (360)
Keenness to help!
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ROMA
DALBY
TOOWOOMBA
STANTHORPE
WARWICK
BRISBANE
GYMPIE
CABOOLTURE
MARYBOROUGH
YANDINA GLADSTONE
MACKAY
AYR
GATTON
EMERALD
ROCKHAMPTON
BUNDABERG
SOUTHPORT
LOGANLEA
MOUNT ISA
CAIRNS
TOWNSVILLE
WONDAI
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Floods Rockhampton Toowoomba-Grantham Brisbane
TC Yasi North Queensland
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Northern Command and control Liaison Aviation support (primarily helicopter)
Southern Workers! Transport Command and control Liaison Search Security
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Prevention Preparation Response Recovery
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Theodore water supply First solution: supplement with water
purification unit Second solution: rehabilitate town
supply
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Safety Culture Willingness to help
Leadership Community ‘looks to Army’ Every soldier a leader
Mobility Vehicle fleet/capable drivers
Engineers
Force multiplier/skill sets
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Defence White Paper 2009 Army to re-balance
Plan Beersheba
To be finalised An embedded concept – Reserve HQs taking a more
formalised responsibility for Disaster Relief
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11th Brigade Currently 1x Engineer Squadron (NQ)
Planned 1x Engineer Regiment
Comprised of: 1x Headquarters (SQ) 2x Squadrons (SQ) 1x Squadron (NQ)
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Are there better ways for managing engineering resources to deliver improved humanitarian outcomes?
What role is there for defence engineers in domestic disasters?
Could the engineering community be better prepared to undertake recovery from domestic disasters
Does the risk of disaster and cost associated with recovery demand an
improved regime of preparedness of engineering capacity?