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11-07-2018, 03:32 AM
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Off the top of my head and remember that this is what I recall from the 1990s so cross-checking is probably needed
 : -Western Australia 16 Battalion, RWAR, Infantry HQ, Support/admin/etc. & B Coy - Irwin Barracks, Karrakatta, Perth A Coy - Geraldton C Coy - Kalgoorlie, (my last unit) was in transition from understrength Company to overstrength Reconnaissance Platoon. This would have been complete by the mid-90s Support Coy included 81mm mortars and 7.62mm SFMG 11/28 Battalion, RWAR, Infantry Now if memory serves me correctly, Targan was 11/28 so he would be the one to ask because I"m working from second-hand info. HQ, Support/admin/etc. & B Coy (I'm uncertain of this) - Irwin Barracks, Karakatta, Perth A Coy: - 1st Platoon - Bunbury 2nd Platoon - Albany 3rd Platoon - Katanning I think HQ A Coy was in Bunbury but again, I am not certain C Coy: - I don't know but a platoon sized unit was based in Rockingham and I think this might have been the core of C Coy. D Coy: - Irwin Barracks I am not certain of the setup with 11/28 because at that time, some Reserve Infantry units were being strengthened with one Regular Army company 10 Light Horse, Armoured Recce HQ, support/etc. and A Squadron - Irwin Barracks A Vehicles included: - M113 LRV, M548 TLC, M113 Fitter's Vehicle, M577 ACV (no 76mm MRV from what I recall) Other Reserve units in Perth at that time included, (note that I have no idea of strength, organization etc. etc.) 7 Field Battery, Medium Arty, at Irwin Barracks (I think they've been neutered and carry 81mm now) ? Field Ambulance (don't recall designation), was formerly at the Artillery Barracks in Fremantle but then moved to Irwin Barracks sometime in late-80s or early-90s. Regional Forces Surveillance Units These are infantry recce units equipped in a manner similar to SASR recce units with vehicles suitable to the task e.g. Far North Queensland Regiment has a number of boats on strength along with their wheeled vehicles Pilbarra Regiment HQ and other elements - Karratha (main garrison) Three Squadrons although I don't know where two of them were based. One was based in Mt Newman, one was most likely in Karratha. North-West Mobile Force AKA NORFORCE Main AOR was Northern Territory but but also the very top end of Western Australia (within the Kimberly region) HQ etc. etc. in Darwin, Northern Territory Kimberly Squadron, I believe was based in Broome with detachments in Kununurra or Derby (or both for all I remember!) The other Squadrons were all based in NT EDIT: There was also an RACT unit at Karrakatta and I believe another logistics unit of some description although that unit may have been Regs. Palmer Barracks in South Guildford, Perth, WA was a logistics base but I believe it was Regs rather than Reserves although I don't know for certain. And in the 1980s 'till the early 1990s, 1/15 RNSWL Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment had all units based at Lancer Barracks in Parramatta, Sydney. This was my first ARes unit. After they lost their buckets and got wheeled recce vehicles, they established one Squadron somewhere else in Sydney. 1/15 still had 76mm MRVs on strength as well as a RAEME detachment. They also had a fully working Centurion as part of the museum (although it would have been somewhat impotent without ammo for the main gun) Last edited by StainlessSteelCynic; 11-07-2018 at 03:48 AM. Reason: spelling Karrakatta properly. 2nd edit, adding info 
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11-07-2018, 06:44 PM
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11-10-2018, 01:15 AM
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Way back when I first joined, we did a lesson on the composition of the armoured recce regiment and the pams we were given were super detailed. Not just how many buckets, radios or GS trailers should be on strength but even the number of magazines to be issued per rifle.
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11-10-2018, 01:29 AM
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Yeah, got a source on PAMs now too. There's a Library in Melbourne that's got just about EVERYTHING! They've been bending over backwards to help out.
 I'm actually getting swamped in detail at the moment. Far more than's actually necessary!
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11-22-2018, 03:56 AM
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11-22-2018, 08:35 PM
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That's the problem with relying on memory!
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11-26-2018, 05:25 AM
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I don't suppose we have any oil refining engineers in the forum membership do we?
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11-26-2018, 07:12 PM
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No I'm not but, what info are you after?
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11-26-2018, 08:48 PM
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The ability for Australian and New Zealand refineries to switch to light sweet oil (as produced in WA and currently shipped to Asian markets) rather than the heavier crude imports they've been using for the previous 50+ years. What sort of efficiency loss would there be, production delays during changeover, etc.
My own research seems to indicate there's only one refinery in the country in the 1990s that had the ability to quickly switch from one feed stock type to another (up to three times in a day apparently). The others don't seem to have that ability built in. Knowing what problems and delays there may be is critical to deciding on what's going on throughout the country and may perhaps explain why Australia apparently avoided being nuked. On another vaguely related topic, I just found this website a moment ago. http://australiansteam.com Quote "This site provides an up-to-date listing of all surviving Australian steam locomotives, including their location and status. More than 600 locomotives are detailed, indexed by their state of origin and first user." Going to be loads of fun trawling through there and figuring out which ones may be pressed back into service when diesel runs short. 
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11-27-2018, 02:50 AM
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Okay so just to get this straight in my own head, do you mean processing already refined sweet light oil or being able to process sour/heavy crude into sweet light?
In "theory", any refinery that is processing sour and/or heavy oils could convert some of that output to sweet light oils but it requires some expansive and obviously expensive infrastructure. There's a brief explanation of the processes involved on the following page: - https://www.afpm.org/The-Refinery-Process/#process How many refineries in Australia have these facilities? Not many but I'm not certain for sure as I only know of two that would have been operating in the 1980s-90s period (the Shell refinery at Clyde NSW and the BP refinery in Kwinana WA). It's not like we have dozens of crude refineries though and they tend to be found in/near major cities. I don't know if you are aware of the following site but it could be useful for you (and anyone looking to see where oil facilities are) https://www.refinerymaps.com/
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11-06-2020, 04:39 AM
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To the best of my recollection, there was talk of 11/28 getting a Regular Army company when I was there in the early 90s, but I don't believe that had occurred by the mid-90s. And I'm pretty sure the Field Ambulance unit was based at Karrakatta (Irwin Barracks) when I was there, but I don't remember the designation. 7th Field Ambulance?
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11-06-2020, 08:17 AM
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11-06-2020, 09:11 AM
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The Korean Sourcebook is the first "official" mention of New Zealand as to any involvement in the war - even though its not canon frankly it should be - that is one place where I DO NOT agree with Marc Miller -
If you look there you have the 28th Anzuk Brigade that has two contingents from New Zealand 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Medical/Logistics personnel By 2001 that Brigade has only 300 men left so at most probably 30-50 NZ survivors still in Korea
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11-06-2020, 05:10 PM
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I'm of the opinion that if New Zealand was able to keep the Marsden Point facility operating, they would be likely to keep most of its production for New Zealand or at least as a trade commodity. However, as we know, a large percentage of the material processed at Marsden Point was imported from Singapore, Australia etc. etc. so that means they probably haven't got much to trade with anyway.
Given that New Zealand imported a lot of items necessary for any modern First World/Western country (and not just crude oil), the Twilight War is going to leave them in the same sort of crap that Australia is in. However for New Zealand it would probably be worse because they are a small nation with a small population and it's unlikely anyone with the shipping capacity (aside from Australia) is going to risk sending ships for what would be a very minor trading profit. I think further discussion is likely to get more in depth about New Zealand without a focus on the military side of things so it probably warrants a thread of its own.
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11-06-2020, 07:03 PM
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11-07-2020, 11:51 AM
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