Support Command was an organisation in the
Royal Australian Air Force
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(RAAF). Headquartered in
Melbourne
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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 and Military supply chain management, su ...
).
[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