Introduction
Welcome to the 7th Combat Service Support Battalion Intranet site. Our intention is to provide a useful tool to assist unit members in their daily administration as well as provide 7 Brigade units and other interested organisations with updates on life in the 7th Combat Service Support Battalion.
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About 7 CSSB
The 7th Combat Service Support Battalion is located at Gallipoli Barracks, ENOGGERA, QLD.
7 CSSB is made up of various combat service support corps and provides logistics support to 7 BDE units.
7 CSSB provides transport, supply, health, dental and maintanence support and consists of both full time Army personnel and Australian Army Reserves.
Anyone interested in joining the Australian Regular Army or Army Reserve should contact recruiting on 13 19 01, or check out: Join the Army - HQ 7 Bde - ARMY
Commanding Officer - LTCOL Jason Walk
Most recently, Lieutenant Colonel Walk served within Army Headquarters as the SO1 Logistic Operations and the SO1 Sustainment. Lieutenant Colonel Walk took command of 7 CSSB on the 17 Dec 2008.
As part of his studies at the Defence Academy, Lieutenant Colonel Walk graduated from the University of New South Wales and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in military history. He has completed a Graduate Diploma in Transport and Distribution Management through Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College where he received the Eisenhower Award for military scholarship. He is also a graduate of the United States School of Advanced Military Studies where he completed a Master of Military Arts and Science Degree.
Lieutenant Colonel Walk deployed to Bosnia Herzegovina on Operation Osier in March 1999, where he served as the Staff Officer Grade 3, G4 Operations with Headquarters Multi-National Division - South West. In September 1999 he deployed to East Timor as part of Headquarters 3rd Brigade's contribution to INTERFET.
Lieutenant Colonel Walk and his wife Karen have two sons. His leisure interests include spending time with his family, soccer, reading and following a variety of sports.
Regimental Sergent Major - WO1 Shane Thurlow
Warrant Officer Thurlow enlisted into the Australian Regular Army on 20 January 1990 and after completing recruit and initial training was posted to RAEME Training Centre as a Clerk Administration within the Corps of the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. In January 1991, he was posted to 102 Field Workshops which in June 1991 was amalgamated into the 3rd Brigade Administrative Support Battalion. During this posting he was promoted to Lance Corporal in June 1992 and Corporal in December 1993.
In January 1995, he was re-allocated to the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps and posted to the Army College of TAFE, later known as the Army Logistic Training Centre as a Company Clerk and Orderly Room Corporal in Battalion Headquarters. In 1997, he was posted as the Chief Clerk of the Directorate of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. With the closure of the Directorate at the end of 1997 Warrant Officer Thurlow took a Regimental posting to the 7th Training Group in Darwin, instructing on Subject One Corporal courses.
January 2000, saw Warrant Officer Thurlow posted to the Land Warfare Centre, Non-Commissioned Officer Section, instructing on the Subject One Sergeant Course for the next three years. Throughout this time he completed his course for promotion and in 2003 he was posted on promotion to Regional Training Centre - Western Australia as the Section Sergeant Major responsible for the setting up and completion of Subject One Corporal courses. After two years he was posted back to the Army Logistic Training Centre as the Wing Sergeant Major of Supply Wing.
At the beginning of 2006, he took up the position as Company Sergeant Major,7th Combat Services Support Team, 7th Combat Service Support Battalion. He completed his Regimental Sergeant Major Course in 2006 and was posted to the Army School of Logistic Operations as the Regimental Sergeant Major in 2007.
On 29 October 2007, Warrant Officer Thurlow was appointed as the Corps RSM, RAAOC. Warrant Officer Thurlow was appointed the Regimental Sergeant Major of the newly formed Army School of Ordnance in January 2008.
In January 2009, Warrant Officer Thurlow assumed his current appointment as the Regimental Sergeant Major of the 7th Combat Service Support Battalion.
Warrant Officer Thurlow saw Operation Service on Operation SOLACE in Somalia during 1993 as the Operations Clerk for the Brigade Support Group.
Warrant Officer Thurlow is married to Annette, he has one son Matthew and his wife is expecting their second child in June 2009.