# RAAF Support Command

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|dates=1959–90
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|garrison=[Melbourne](/source/Melbourne)
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|notable_commanders=[Allan Walters](/source/Allan_Walters) (1959–62)<ref name=AVMLZ>{{cite web|url=http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/Contents/About-APDC/About-APDC/Office-of-Air-Force-History/Air-Marshals-of-the-RAAF/137/Air-Vice-Marshals-L-Z.aspx |title=Air Vice-Marshals (L–Z) |work=Air Marshals of the RAAF|publisher=Air Power Development Centre|access-date=12 July 2016}}</ref><br />[Frank Headlam](/source/Frank_Headlam) (1966–67)<ref name=AVMAK>{{cite web|url=http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/Contents/About-APDC/About-APDC/Office-of-Air-Force-History/Air-Marshals-of-the-RAAF/135/Air-Vice-Marshals-A-K.aspx |title=Air Vice-Marshals (A–K) |work=Air Marshals of the RAAF|publisher=Air Power Development Centre|access-date=12 July 2016}}</ref><br />[Colin Hannah](/source/Colin_Hannah) (1968–69)<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Coulthard-Clark | first=Chris|year=1996|id=A140427b|title=Hannah, Colin Thomas (1914–1978)|accessdate=12 July 2016}}</ref>
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'''Support Command''' was an organisation in the [Royal Australian Air Force](/source/Royal_Australian_Air_Force) (RAAF). Headquartered in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne), it was formed in 1959 from the amalgamation of [RAAF Training](/source/RAAF_Training_Command) and [Maintenance Commands](/source/RAAF_Maintenance_Command).<ref>Stephens, ''Going Solo'', pp. 76–77</ref> Support Command was split into [Logistics Command](/source/RAAF_Logistics_Command) and Training Command in 1990.<ref name="Oxford150">Dennis et al, ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History'', pp. 150–151</ref> 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](/source/Defence_Materiel_Organisation)).<ref>Stephens, ''The Royal Australian Air Force'', p. 307</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://uat.defence.gov.au/AnnualReports/97-98/dar98pr6.pdf|title=Program 6: Support Command|work=Defence Annual Report 1997–98|page=224|date=1998|publisher=[Department of Defence](/source/Department_of_Defence_(Australia))|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-date=21 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321184003/http://www.uat.defence.gov.au/AnnualReports/97-98/dar98pr6.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Horner, ''Making the Australian Defence Force'', pp. 278–279</ref>

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==References==
*{{cite book|last=Dennis| first=Peter|author2=Grey, Jeffrey |author-link2=Jeffrey Grey  |author3= Morris, Ewan|author4= Prior, Robin| year=2008| orig-year=1995| title=The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History| location=South Melbourne| publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press)|isbn=978-0-19-551784-2}}
*{{cite book|last=Horner|first=David|author-link=David Horner|title=The Australian Centenary History of Defence Volume IV: Making the Australian Defence Force|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Melbourne|year=2001|isbn=978-0-19-554117-5}}
*{{cite book|last=Stephens| first=Alan| year=1995| title=Going Solo: The Royal Australian Air Force 1946–1971|location=Canberra|publisher=Australian Government Publishing Service|url=http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/Publications/Details/214/Going-Solo-The-Royal-Australian-Air-Force-19461971.aspx|isbn=978-0-644-42803-3}}
*{{cite book|last=Stephens| first=Alan|orig-year=2001|year=2006| title=The Royal Australian Air Force: A History| location=London| publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-555541-7}}

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Category:Military units and formations established in 1959
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