New Chief of Staff

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 33, 7 February 1984, Page 1

New Chief of Staff

Lieutenant Colonel Russell Martin has been posted as Chief of Staff on the Headquarters of the Army Training Group at Waiouru. He was previously the Director of Army Training on the Army General Staff in Wellington. He succeeds Lieutenant Colonel David Cormack who has been posted to the Army General Staff as the Director of Plans. Born in Te Aroha in 1942, Colonel Martin was educated at Te Aroha College and the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Australia. He graduated from Duntroon in December 1964 and was commissioned as a lieutenant into the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery. Colonel Martin has served on active service in Borneo and the Republic of Vietnam. He was a troop commander with the New Zealand Special Air Service (SAS) Detachment in Borneo during Confrontation and served two year-long tours of duty with 161 Battery RNZA during the Vietnam conflict where he was mentioned in Dispatches (m.i.d.) in 1968 after an action in the town of Baria in Phuoc Tuy Province. A 1976 graduate of the Australian Army's Staff College at Queenscliffe in Victoria, Colonel Martin has held a range of appointments which include Deputy Assistant Quar-

termaster General (DAQMG) Works on the old Headquarters Home Command in Wellington; Chief Instructor of the Army's School of Administration at Waiouru and Staff Officer Grade Two (S02) Logistics on Headquarters New Zealand Force South East Asia in Singapore. Prior to assuming his current appointment last month, Colonel Martin was Director of Army Training on the Army General Staff in Wellington. His interests include squash, golf and jogging and he is a member of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. He and his wife, Kate, have three children.