Robertson Barracks

Robertson Barracks
Knuckey Lagoon Municipality of Litchfield Northern Territory
Type	Australian Army base
Site information
Owner	Australia
Controlled by	Australia
Site history
Built	1989–2001
Garrison information
Garrison	1st Brigade 1st Aviation Regiment B Coy, 1st Military Police Battalion Joint Movements Control Office – Darwin Joint Logistics Unit (North) United States Pacific Command Marine air-ground combined arms force

For the Robertson Barracks, Norfolk, England see Robertson Barracks, Norfolk

Robertson Barracks is a major Australian Army base located in the Northern Territory of Australia within the suburb of Holtze in the Municipality of Litchfield about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of the Darwin city centre. The barracks was built during the 1990s. The Barracks is home to the 1st Brigade and the 1st Aviation Regiment. Robertson Barracks has a helicopter airfield, similar to Holsworthy Barracks. The barracks was named after Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson, commander of the 1st Armoured Division and 6th Division during the Second World War, and later Commander in Chief British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan.

The units currently located on Robertson Barracks are:

1 Brigade units

External units

In 2011 as part of the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia" it was announced that US Marines would be based in Darwin at the Robertson Barracks. In November 2011 it was announced that up to 2,500 US Marines would be based in Australia for training, starting from 200 to 250 in 2012, to 2500 over the following five years. The Marine groups were to stay for six months at a time.

Robertson Barracks is reported to be a future site of a United States Pacific Command, Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D), and its current capacity of 4,500 troops will be upgraded in the near future. Currently, the size and the accessibility of key facilities in Darwin follows closely with other US deployment sites around the globe.

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