Description
Description: Squadron Patch – RAAF Engineer Cadet Squadron
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Squadron Patch – RAAF Engineer Cadet Squadron.
It was a scheme which provided the RAAF with graduate engineer officers for 25 years. Now obsolete.
From its beginnings in February 1961 as ‘Detachment A’ of the Radio Apprentice School, then Diploma Cadet Squadron from 1962, and Engineer Cadet Squadron (ECS) from 1976, the unit administered officer cadets who were studying for engineering diplomas and degrees at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. From 1965 Frognall was also home to cadets studying Commerce at RMIT before becoming officers in the Equipment Branch, an arrangement which ended in 1973. With the closure of the ECS, future intakes of RAAF engineer students attended the new Australian Defence Force Academy. The base at Frognall closed down in March 1986 and was sold by the Commonwealth a short time later.
