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SOTECs role is to ensure the ongoing provision of high-calibre, trained individuals to Commandos and SAS to enable continuous elite military capabilities. Support to these soldiers and their families.ĭEFENCE SPECIAL OPERATIONS TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTREĭefence Special Operations Training & Education Centre (DSOTEC) recruits, screens and trains selected personnel for service with Commandos and the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), in addition to managing doctrine development, marketing, training support and validation and specialist capability development. The Commando Welfare Trust was established to provide The Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) is covered by a separate support fund. The Commando Welfare Trust supports members from SOCOMD direct command and support units. Special Operations Headquarters manages the direct command units within SOCOMD.Īustralian special forces have most recently been deployed to Iraq in Operation Okra as the Special Operations Task Group, as the Special Operations Task Group in Afghanistan, in Afghanistan in support of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and regularly for counter-terrorism pre-deploy to locations of major domestic events throughout Australia in readiness to support law enforcement. SOCOMD was established in order to enhance Australia’s ability to use non-conventional war-fighting means to respond to the asymmetric threat of terrorism. It is modelled on the equivalent commands in the United States and British military forces, and is led by a major general as Special Operations Commander Australia (SOCAUST). Special Operations Command (SOCOMD) was established on to unite all of the Australian Army’s special forces units. The special forces of Australia have a lineage to a variety of units raised in the Second World War such as the Independent and Commando Companies, Z Special Unit, Navy Beach Commandos, and the Coastwatchers. The special forces of the Australian Defence Force are units of Special Operations Command and associated units of the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force that conduct and or support special operations to advance and protect the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia.