The School of Artillery conducts individual Artillery and Mortar training in order to enable the generation of Army’s foundation war fighting capability.

The School of Artillery is responsible for 165 different courses and is tasked to deliver training to over 2500 personnel each year.

It also serves as the ‘home’ of the Gunner and the centre for Royal Australian Artillery activities and heritage. The School incorporates the RAA Officers’ and Sergeants’ Messes and is the usual location for the banner of Queen Elizabeth II. The School directly supports the Head of Regiment and the Regimental Committee.

History

The School of Artillery can be traced back to 1885 when it was located at Middle Head in Sydney. Over its many years, the School has been relocated and reorganised a number of times. It has however, remained the centre of excellence for technical and tactical artillery training in Australia.

In 1998 the School of Artillery transitioned to its current home at Bridges Barracks, Puckapunyal and came under command of the Combined Arms Training Centre.

Organisation
The School is currently organised as follows:
Headquarters: Incorporating the operations, logistics, training standards and Head of Regiment Functions.
Joint Fires Wing (JFW): Responsible for all aspects of gun and mortar training, observer and command system operator course as well as key field artillery career courses.
Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) Wing: Responsible for the training of the UAS System (Shadow 200) and STA career courses.
Air Land Wing:
Responsible for training on GBAD equipment and career courses. This is expanding to include the Air Land Integration training requirements of 16 ALR.
Radio Digital and Support Wing:
The Radio Digital and Support Wing encompasses our holding troop (Samuel Tristram Troop), Comms Cell and Physical Training Instructors.
53 Battery.
53 Battery provides Offensive Support effects and specialist skills in support of the School of Artillery in order to develop foundation war fighting skills and artillery capability development. 53 Battery operates the M777A2.
New Equipment Training Team (NETT).

The NETT have been responsible for the Introduction Into Service training of new major systems, provision of subject matter expertise for new digital command and control fire support networks and the ongoing development of doctrine, interoperability and tactics, techniques and procedures. The NETT will develop the AFATDS requirements centre into the Joint Fires battle lab to support ongoing development of digital fire support and the individual training of RAA and selected other personnel.