";s:4:"text";s:6084:" The local manufacture of A/S equipment would warrant a story in itself. The Royal Australian Navy has welcomed its newest ship into the fleet with the first commissioning of an Australian warship at sea since World War II.
The Army School of Gunnery was established at South Head in 1895.In 1942 the Navy came to South Head, when the Navy RADAR School was moved from HMAS The SMW's primary focuses are the Principal Warfare Officers Course and the provision of Principal Warfare Officers who can fight and win at sea as well as the training of all Combat System Sailors so as to provide the Royal Australian Navy with the capability to 'Fight and Win in a Maritime Environment'. The Navigation and Direction School separated in 1978 into Navigation and AIO Schools.The SWSC was completed and became operational early in the new decade incorporating, and expanding upon, the training and support already offered by the Submarine Command Team Trainer.
Despite a concentrated search, no sign was ever found of the submarine – no wreckage, no oil slick, nothing to give a hint of what may have happened to the submarine that had become Australia’s first loss of the war.When we think of Gallipoli, images of soldiers in their trenches or the mass landings at Anzac Cove come to mind. The “J”s were a hotch-potch of submarine design. I noted that Voyager was not in the correct RESDES [Rescue Destroyer] position. The Submarine Command Team Trainer celebrated its first anniversary in July 1976 having lost only one day of training through unserviceability. The Submarine Command Team Trainer provided a similar training environment except that it simulated the control room of an Oberon Class submarine presenting submarine command teams with most of the operational conditions that they would encounter at sea. Development of the new Submarine Warfare Systems Centre (SWSC) also began in the second half of the year. His promotion to Captain RN (Rtd) paralleled this employment as Captain RAN.As his children had grown up in Australia he decided to stay here, and “swallowed the anchor” on 27 September 1956, after eighteen years of outstanding service to the RAN and to Australia.
This did not prevent some staff from moving into their new offices and the first Junior Officers Tactical Course began on 26 November 1973. Such freedom of entry was granted only to friendly armies and carefully controlled by city leaders. Consequently, training facilities expanded, equipment was modernised and improved, classroom space increased and syllabuses were revised to meet the changing conditions of anti-submarine warfare (ASW). NSWC also provides an avenue for the training of cohesive fleet command teams. This training culminates in the attainment of a Bridge Watch-keeping Certificate.This course co-ordinates all the necessary training and briefing requirements for course members destined to re-join the fleet as a Ships' Commanding Officer or Executive Officer (2nd In Command).
It was during this later era that the practice of regimental detachments entering a city and raising recruits ‘by the beat of a drum’ first evolved.In modern times, the granting of ‘Freedom of Entry’ bestows no legal right or privilege on the recipient body as honoured. Sections still waiting to be relocated were the radar mast, AITC, Solartron Simulator and Radar block as well as the Electronic Warfare School and telephone exchange, and ten temporary buildings were still earmarked for demolition.
Extensions were added in 1880 to accommodate additional personnel.Many of the early barracks constructions are still standing such as the Sergeants Mess, stables, guard house, Married Quarters, the Gun Park and Artillery store.