I had a really good joke about campers but ended up forgetting what it was . <| sep |> RESPONSE from uAussieStigHey mate , So I ' d say your chances aren ' t as bad as 95 % for getting sent to Darwin . There is 3 main Combat Brigades in the army that basically do the same job as each other , 1 brigade is in Darwin , 3 brigade is in Townsville and 7 brigade is in Brisbane . Each of them have a Signals regiment , on top of that there is another Signals regiment in Brisbane the same size as the other , but they support HQ Army , and there is also a Squadron Half the size of a regiment in Sydney . The only real posting position for Sigs in Melbourne is to the School of Signals where you learn your trade , and to get sent back there you need a few years experience somewhere else first . If you have family in Brisbane , and your partner is living there , you ' ll almost certainly get sent there . I ' m doing deployment training with guys in the equivalent job from the RAAF and the Navy right now . The Navy guys spend a lot of time on boats which I hate the thought of , but the RAAF guys have it pretty good . Pro ' s and con ' s to what is essentially the same job but in a different service . There is a lot more comradery in the Army , but the RAAF is good at rewarding their workers and looking after them . About the specific job , there ' s been ups and downs where I ' ve hated it and then loved it . It can be really rewarding learning new things about engineering and administering a network , but it can be frustrating , and physically exhausting when your entire position all the time . Just like every other job really . It all comes down to where you get sent and at what time . I ' ve been at my unit now for 2 and a half years , and I haven ' t done a single promotion course out of the 3 because the past 12 months we ' ve been flat out with exercises , and now we ' re being deployed , so I won ' t be getting promoted for at least 2 years . But other people get to their units and start getting promotion courses within the first 18 months . Without knowing what your base level of knowledge is , try to pick up a basic level of knowledge of networks . Understand what routers , switches , domain controllers are and how the fit into a network . During your job training you ' ll do a whole load of CISCO training where you learn how routing and switching works , but for a lot of people it can be a whole load of shit to take on at once . If you can download Cisco Packet Tracer and watch some tutorials , you ' ll be well on your way to excelling at the course . Again , without understanding what you know about networks , Packet Tracer is basically just a network simulator at allows you to drag and drop stuff into a network and make it work . So configuring routers , switches , phones so that they all talk to each other . That last thing isn ' t really something you need to understand before you go to the school of sigs , but if you at least had a bit of a play with it you ' re a step ahead of everyone else there