So, who (or what) is

RAEME ??

The Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers are known by the abbreviated term, or acronym, RAEME which is pronounced as 'ray-mee'.

RAEME is the second largest Corps in the Australian Army and maintains the greatest variety of equipment of any organisation in Australia.  Because of the demands of Army operations, the Corps operates both mobile workshops on the battlefield and static workshops in the support area.  The Corps provides the repair and recovery service for all equipment operated by the Army, including aircraft and watercraft.

A RAEME soldier is known as a 'Craftsman'.  RAEME Craftsmen repair and maintain equipment as diverse as tanks, trucks and armoured personnel carriers, helicopters, radios, radars and computers, artillery guns and missile systems.  Among the wide range of trades available in the Corps are vehicle mechanics, electronics technicians, aircraft technicians and armament fitters.

For the purposes of identification in military radio parlance, RAEME personnel are referred to as 'Bluebells'.  A RAEME Craftsman is affectionately known as a 'Crafty' - only because of the 'Oz' military trait of abbreviating everything, not because he is! (If that were the case, Crafties might be quite rightly known as Genies, as that would be an appropriate abbreviation of Ingenious...but I digress!)  According to the average Crafty, RAEME actually is an abbreviation for:

' RAEME Aids Everyone, Mends Everything. '

...Well nearly everything! Just don't put your fingers in the hole!

In Western Australia the RAEME Officer's Association was formed on 31st August 1954. This was the first RAEME association to be formed in this State.

Contacts
Secretary:	Alan Stoner	wasecretary@raeme.org.au
Webmaster:	Alex Smithers	wawebmaster@raeme.org.au