• ADF elements in Afghanistan
• ADF elements in Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO)
• Bases
• Australian Federal Police
• Department of Foreign Affairs

Introduction

 The full number of Australian military, police, Foreign Affairs and intelligence personnel currently deployed in and around Afghanistan is unclear, but is at least 2,530, made up of 1,550 ADF personnel in Afghanistan (1,241 in Uruzgan and 300 in Kabul, Kandahar and elsewhere).

In October 2010, the Defence Department provided the following breakdown of the 1,241 ADF personnel in Uruzgan:

• Australian contribution to Combined Team – Uruzgan (861)
• Headquarters Combined Taskforce-Uruzgan (70)
• Mentoring Task Force (724)
• Provincial Reconstruction Team (67)
• Australian enabling support in Uruzgan (62)
• Special Operations Task Group (318)

Defence also stated that there are “around 50 civilians working in Afghanistan, in addition to around ten Defence civilians.” It is not clear whether this figure includes at least 22 AFP personnel deployed in Afghanistan.

At least another 830 ADF personnel are based permanently or temporarily at the ADF’s Middle East Area of Operations, including 500 headquarters at Al Minhad Air Base in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Two AP-3C maritime surveillance aircraft and their crews and support staff amouunting to 170 personnel are also based in Dubai, as well as C-130J Hercules and C-17 Globemaster transports. Nearby naval facilities are used to provide support to Royal Australian Navy warships (currently HMAS Parramatta with about 180 crew members) on patrol in the Arabian Sea.

ADF elements in Afghanistan

• ADF in Afghanistan: 2001 – 2007

• ADF in Afghanistan: 2008-2009

• Artillery contingent
• Base Command (Baseco) Tarin Kowt
• CH-47 Chinook helicopter detachment
• Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) detachment
• Kandahar Mobile Control and Reporting Unit
• National Command Element – Afghanistan
• Operation Slipper
• Mentoring Task Force
• RTF – Civil and military aid activities
• RTF and Afghanistan National Army and National Police
• Special Operations Task Group
• Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT)
• Force Support Unit
• ADF Engineering Team
• ADF – Afghanistan – Intelligence

ADF elements in Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO)

• Australian National Headquarters – Middle East Area of Operations
• Commanders, Australian National Headquarters – Middle East Area of Operations, and JTF 633

• Air elements

• Force Communications Unit
• Force Support Unit
• Joint Movements Coordination Centre
• Maritime forces

Bases

• Locations of ADF in Middle East, Central Asia and Indian Ocean

• Al Minhad Air Base

• ADF bases and locations abroad

Australian Federal Police

• AFP in Afghanistan

Department of Foreign Affairs

• ASIS – Afghanistan