Susan Coyle
Lieutenant General Susan May Coyle, (born 21 May 1970) is a senior officer in the
Australian Army. She joined the army as a
reservist in 1987 and, following training at the
Australian Defence Force Academy, was
commissioned into the
Royal Australian Corps of Signals in 1992. She has commanded the 104th Signal Squadron (2003–04), 17th Signal Regiment (2009–10), Task Group Afghanistan (2015) and the
6th Combat Support Brigade (2017–19), and has deployed on operations to
East Timor, the
Solomon Islands and
Afghanistan. She was appointed
Commander Joint Task Force 633, with responsibility for all Australian operations in the Middle East, from January to November 2020. She was the first woman to command the task force, which had oversight for 1,200 personnel under
Operation Accordion. Coyle was
Head Information Warfare from January 2021 to November 2022,
Commander Forces Command from November 2022 to June 2024, and assumed the role of
Chief of Joint Capabilities in July 2024.
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