Gavan Reynolds
Lieutenant General Gavan John Reynolds, is a senior officer in the Australian Army. He joined the army via the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1985 and has spent much of his career in military intelligence. He has commanded the 1st Intelligence Battalion (2004–05) and the 6th Combat Support Brigade (2013–15), and deployed on operations to the Persian Gulf, Lebanon and Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He served as Head Military Strategic Plans from 2019 to 2020, before being appointed as the inaugural Chief of Defence Intelligence in July 2020. Military career Reynolds entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon as an Australian Army officer cadet in July 1985. Following graduation in 1987, Reynolds was appointed a troop commander in the 16th Air Defence Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. During the Gulf War, he deployed to the Persian Gulf in command of an RBS 70 detachment aboard . He subsequently served as aide-de-camp to the Chief of Army, S2 (intelligence officer) in the 3rd Brigade, an analyst in the Defence Intelligence Organisation, a tactics instructor at the Land Warfare Centre in Canungra, Queensland, and deployed to Syria and Lebanon as a military observer with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. Reynolds commanded the 1st