RAAF Support Command
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|notable_commanders=Allan Walters (1959–62){{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}}
Frank Headlam (1966–67){{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}}
Colin Hannah (1968–69){{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Coulthard-Clark | first=Chris|year=1996|id=A140427b|title=Hannah, Colin Thomas (1914–1978)|accessdate=12 July 2016}}
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Support Command was an organisation in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Headquartered in Melbourne, it was formed in 1959 from the amalgamation of RAAF Training and Maintenance Commands.Stephens, Going Solo, pp. 76–77 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).Stephens, The Royal Australian Air Force, p. 307{{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|access-date=12 July 2016}}Horner, Making the Australian Defence Force, pp. 278–279
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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|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}}