Around 3,500 soldiers from the 1st Brigade, based predominantly at Darwin's Robertson Barracks, are certified as the Australian Army's 'ready' group after months of intense preparation.
Soldiers in the Northern Territory and South Australia have become Australia's first line of defence, ready to be deployed across the world.1st Brigade soldiers will be on standby to deploy at a moment's notice until October 2020
Brigadier Ashley Collingburn has taken over from now Major General Matt Pearse, as commander of 1st Brigade The responsibility of being the army's ready group is rotated annually between combat brigades based in Townsville, Brisbane and Darwin. "The army's role is to prepare for war, so in addition to those operations we already know about, we're also preparing for other contingencies.
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