Brigadier Brigadier ( ) is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country. In some countries, it is a senior rank above colonel, equivalent to a brigadier general or commodore (rank), commodore, typically commanding a brigade of several t ...

Mark Andrew Brewer, is a senior

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officer and a former Commandant of

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, the officer training school of the Australian Army. He held this position from 2016 to 2017. He graduated from Duntroon in 1987. Brewer has been awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) twice. He received the CSC in the

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, and received a

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for it in the

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. He was appointed a

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in the

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