Lachlan Laughton has served his career in A Squadron, 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) since enlisting in 2013 as a cavalryman. In 2018 he was promoted to Corporal and was given his first opportunity to deploy in Task Group Taji – IX from June – November 2019 as a mentor in Training Team Charlie, responsible for mentoring Iraqi Senior Non-Commissioned Officer trainers in the training wings at the School of Infantry Non-Commissioned Officers II.

Lachlan was a co-author of Building Partner Capacity | A CPLs perspective from Task Group Taji IX.