Lieutenant Colonel Nick Floyd has over 30 years’ regular service with the Royal Australian Artillery in gun regiments, instructional institutions, Army and Defence Headquarters, and has served on warlike operations in Iraq (2005, 2017) and Afghanistan (2010). As a Director of the Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company, he convened the Firepower: Lessons from the Great War Seminar Series. He has postgraduate degrees in History and in Defence Studies, and was the Army Contributing Historian to Australia’s Official History Project in 2018-19.

WO2 Smith enlisted into the Army in 1994 as a Combat Engineer in the Royal Australian Engineers.

He has held numerous positions within the Army including serving as a Recruit Instructor, RAE positions within Special Operations Command, and various units within the RAE.

WO2 Smith’s most recent posting sees him posted to the School of Military Engineering within Engineer Tactics Wing as the Course Leader for the Subject 4 SGT Supervisor Combat Engineer suite of courses.

WO2 Smith holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts – Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism.