Organisation
1 ATF's organisation varied as Australian and New Zealand units rotated through South Vietnam and the total size of the Australian and New Zealand force in South Vietnam changed. The task force typically consisted of:
- Headquarters Company, 1 ATF
- Two or three infantry battalions
- One field artillery regiment (with an attached US medium artillery battery)
- One field squadron (engineers): 1 Field Squadron
- One engineer support troop: 21 Engineer Support Troop
- One construction engineer squadron: 17th Construction Squadron
- One APC Squadron (M-113)
- One Armoured Squadron (Centurion tanks)
- One Australian SAS Squadron
- One Signals Squadron
- 1st Australian Task Force Logistics Company
- 161 Reconnaissance Flight (Bell H-13 Sioux)
- No. 9 Squadron RAAF (UH-1 Iroquois)
- Two New Zealand rifle companies
- One New Zealand Artillery Battery
- One New Zealand SAS troop
The Australian Army Training Team Vietnam was separate from 1 ATF and reported directly to the Australian Force Vietnam headquarters located in Saigon which provided administrative support to all Australian forces in South Vietnam.
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