Defence Force Members - Other Ranks

Key Tasks

• •Guarding airfields and other defence force bases
• •Serving as an infantry soldier
• •Erecting bridges, building field defences, constructing temporary roads, clearing minefields, repairing airfields and demolishing targets using explosives
• •Crewing armoured fighting vehicles
• •Operating artillery, ground and surface-based defence systems, shipboard weapons and other advanced specialist military weapons and equipment
• •Providing firepower and ground-based air defence
• •Establishing and maintaining command, control and communications equipment and facilities
• •Conducting surveillance, reconnaissance and boarding operations
• •Maintaining personal arms and ammunition

Employment Projections to 2034