Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps

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The Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps (RAAOC) is the Corps within the Australian Army concerned with supply and administration. The Corps contains clerks, operator supplies (including q-store staff, wharehouse staff and food technicians), petroleum operators, parachute riggers and amunition technicians.

Unlike other Corps within the Australian Army, there are no longer any RAAOC specific units, instead RAAOC sub-units sit within mixed units such as Combat Service Support Battalions (CSSBs) or Force Support Battalions (FSBs). RAAOC is also responsible for clerks and quartermaster store staff in all Australian Army Units.

[edit] Training

RAAOC training and Corps HQ is based at Army Logistic Training Centre (ALTC) Bandiana in rural Victoria.

[edit] Corps Motto and History

The Corps traces it's history back to federation where |General Edward Hutton started the Australian Army Ordnance Corps. The Corps gained it's Royal prefix for it's work during teh second world war.

The RAAOC motto translates from latin to 'To the warrior his arms, to the thunderer his thunder bolts'. The RAAOC badge originates from the Board of Ordnance in the United Kingdom.