Simone Wilkie

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Major General Wilkie in Afghanistan (August 2012; then still Brigadier)

Simone Louise Wilkie AO , née Simone Louise Burt (* 1964 in Ballarat , Victoria ) is an Australian officer. She is a major general in the Australian Army and served as Australian deputy commander in the war in Afghanistan in 2011 and 2012 . She was Assistant Chief of Staff to General David Petraeus during the surge in the Iraq war in 2007 and the first woman in command of the Royal Military College Duntroon and the Army Recruit Training Center in Kapooka, a suburb of Wagga Wagga . In 2013 she was promoted to major general and directed the Australian Defense College.

Career

Born Simone Louise Burt, she attended Ballarat Grammar School and began her military training in 1983 at the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) Officer Candidate School in Georges Heights New South Wales .

Wilkie holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Human Resource Development, and degrees (both Graduate Diplomas) in Telecommunications and Strategies, as well as a Masters in Military Science .

Your first use of the force was with the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, the intelligence force. In 1993 she served in Cambodia in connection with the Australian assignment with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). In 2008 she was included in the Order of Australia and mentioned in the Australian War Diary. After serving in Iraq, she was appointed to the Commander Forces Command in the Victoria Barracks of Sydney in 2009 for Australian troop training.

In 2011 she was Deputy National Commander in Afghanistan and had almost 1,500 soldiers under her command.

Alongside Rear Admiral Robyn Walker , the commander of the medical services, she has the second highest rank of general for a woman in Australia.

Private life

In her first marriage, Simone Wilkie was married to Andrew Wilkie , a comrade officer, who later became politically active for the Australian Greens at times and retired from the Australian civil service in 2003 because of his opposition to the Iraq war. In 2003 the marriage was divorced. She is now married again.

Wilkie no longer sees gender as a barrier to service in the armed forces. The opening of the service in combat units as well as on missions abroad only took place during her career. Wilkie sees the army as an excellent career opportunity for women. Relatively few of the 32 women on their first course would have dropped out. Wilkie is the niece of John Burt, the mayor of Ballarat .

Awards

medal description Award
Order of Australia (Military) ribbon.png Order of Australia (AM) 2008 Australia Day Honors
Commendation for Distinguished Service 2013 Queen's Birthday Honors
Australian Active Service Medal ribbon.png Australian Active Service Medal
Afghanistan Medal (Australia) ribbon.png Afghanistan Medal
Iraq Medal (Australia) ribbon.png Iraq Medal
DFSM with rosette x 3.png Defense Force Service Medal (30-34 years service)
Australian Defense Medal (Australia) ribbon.png Australian Defense Medal
UNTAC Medal bar.gif UNTAC Medal (United Nations)
Bronze Star Medal ribbon.svg Bronze Star (United States)
NATO Medal ISAF ribbon bar v2.svg NATO Medal (ISAF)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leanne Sullivan (Ed.): Who's Who in Australia 2013 , XLIX. Edition, Crown Content, Melbourne 2013, ISBN 1 74095 190 5 , p. 2405, ISSN  0810-8226 .
  2. ↑ a b Jordan Oliver: Former Ballarat woman to head ADF College . In: Ballarat Courier . Retrieved July 10, 2013. 
  3. ^ Neville Lindsay: Chapter 3 - Development and Maturity . Historia. Archived from the original on May 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / books.historia.com.au
  4. ↑ Nick Monfries: First Down . Blog at WordPress.com. June 4, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b c Simone Wilkie: Full Bio . Chief Executive Women. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cew.org.au
  6. ↑ a b c d Brigadier Simone Louise Wilkie . Macquarie University . Retrieved July 10, 2013.
  7. ^ Member of the Order of Australia . Australian Government. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
  8. ^ A b Jane Hansen: Meet Brigadier Simone Wilkie, the first woman to command Australian troops . In: The Sunday Telegraph , October 23, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2013. 
  9. ^ Commendation for Distinguished Service . Australian Government. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
  10. ↑ a b c d Max Blenkin: No gender limits, says top woman soldier . In: The Australian . Retrieved July 10, 2013. 
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Commander ADC: Major General Simone Louise Wilkie . In: Australian Defense College . Department of Defense. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  12. ^ Andrew Wilkie discusses WMD doubts . In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation , February 3, 2004. Retrieved July 10, 2013. 
  13. ^ Member of the Order of Australia , January 26, 2003
  14. ↑ Commendation for Distinguished Service , June 10, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wilkie, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilkie, Simone Louise (full name); Burt, Simone Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballarat , Victoria