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The Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps (RAAOC) is the Corps within the Australian Army concerned with supply and administration, as well as the demolition and disposal of explosives and salvage of battle-damaged equipment.
The Corps contains clerks, operator supplies (including q-store staff, warehouse staff and food technicians), petroleum operators, parachute riggers and ammunition technicians.
Members of the Corps are nicknamed Roaches.
The Corps was started as the Australian Army Ordnance Corps in 1902 and gained the Royal prefix for its work during the Second World War.
The RAAOC motto translates from Latin to 'To the warrior his arms, to the thunderer his thunder bolts'.
The RAAOC badge design was developed from the badge of the now disbanded British RAOC and consists of four elements: the Crown, Garter, Riband and Shield.
The shield depicts three field cannons and three cannonballs and forms part of the coat of arms granted to the Board of Ordnance in 1823.
