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Equal to the task

the royal australian army service corps

neville lindsay

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The Royal Australian Army Service Corps and its earlier manifestations provided the sinews of war to the Australian Forces for over three- quarters of a century. The hard-learnt concept of the indivisibility of the vital supplies - food, fuel, ammunition -from their delivery system survived the 1973 concentration of all supply into the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps, and the concentration of transport and movement into the new Royal Australian Corps of Transport.

With this vital combat support role, together with general transport and supplies tasks, the Corps faced exacting demands on it: there was no place for the 'to follow' or 'the customer doesn't understand our problems' mentality tolerated in some other corps. Men must eat to live, equipment must have fuel to operate, forces without ammunition surrender, and mobility is the other factor to firepower in an army's combat power .

This book is an account of how the 'galloping grocers' responded to this challenge, earning their deservedly respected place within Australian military history .It records how they set a high standard which their successors must strive to live up to.

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