Evening everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has had anything to do with the light cav scouts?
Just trying to understand their role, and why exactly it's a reserves only role.

Also are there any instances of these boys being deployed? I know some of the PWLH has been working in the bushfire areas in Victoria lately.

They needed the reservist M113's for the second Mech Infantry unit, but they wanted to keep the reserve cav units on the order of battle, with something approaching the same role. So they mounted them in Land Rovers and called them Light Cav Scouts.

There is one unit mounted in Bushmasters, they are deployable, the other blokes would be deployable too (Solomons, Timor Leste) , but they won't be going to Afghanistan any time soon.

12/16 has been sending soldiers to both Timor Leste, Iraq and Afghanistan for a while now. Both in APC's (Timor) and Bushmasters. Almost makes me wish I was armoured .... almost!

Most cav scouts deploy in a role other than cav scout

Thanks for the information everyone.

Am I right in understanding that Light Cav Scouts are well trained for patrolling, recon etc?

What do you consider well trained?

Maybe make that "trained" then. Just wondering if they are always upping skill sets, and if there is more to it than all vehicle based.

It's a short period of sitting in the back before moving on to vehicle driving and commanding.

Sorry, just reread my post and didnt word it properly. I meant to say foot patrolling as well as vehicle based stuff. Cheers