Support Command was an organisation in the

Royal Australian Air Force The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal Air force, aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army. Constitutionally the Governor-Gener ...

(RAAF). Headquartered in

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, it was formed in 1959 from the amalgamation of RAAF Training and Maintenance Commands. Support Command was split into Logistics Command and Training Command in 1990.Dennis et al, ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History'', pp. 150–151 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 The Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) is an organisation within the Department of Defence (Australia), Australian Department of Defence, responsible for Military acquisition, acquisition, Military supply chain management, sup ...

).Horner, ''Making the Australian Defence Force'', pp. 278–279

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* * * *{{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 RAAF commands Structure of contemporary air forces