Type Australian Army base Built 1989–2001 | Controlled by Australia Owner Australia | |
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 Address Shoal Bay NT 0830, Australia | ||
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For the Robertson Barracks, Norfolk, England see Robertson Barracks, Norfolk
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- Units
- US Marines
- References
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.
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Units
The units currently located on Robertson Barracks are:
1 Brigade units
External units
US Marines
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.
Some concerns have been expressed about the increasing number of troops and the possibility of sexual assaults or other criminal activities by US Marines. A Deloitte Economics report suggested that the probability of a sexual assault by Marines less than that of a equivalent number of NT males.
In 2016, 1,250 US Marines deployed to Robertson Barracks, along with four UH-1Y Venom helicopters.
Drawn out negotiations over cost-sharing and other issues mean that the original number of 2,500 Marines per deployment will not be reached until at least 2020.