OTS Commanding Officer
The current Commanding Officer, of the RAAF Officers' Training School, is WGCDR Paul Klose. WGCDR Klose joined the Royal Australian Air Force in January 1987 as an Aeronautical Engineering Officer.
WGCDR Klose was appointed to the RAAF as an Officer Cadet at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He completed the first two years of his Aeronautical Engineering at the Defence Academy and completed the finals two years at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) graduating in 1991. On graduating from the Defence Academy and RMIT as a FLGOFF he was posted to 75 SQN at RAAF Base Tindal as the Flight Line Engineering Officer in charge of an F/A-18 the operational maintenance section.
Promoted to FLTLT in 1994, he was posted to Melbourne in the first of three postings to the Aircraft Structural Integrity section of what is now known as the Directorate of Technical Airworthiness (DGTA). In 1997 he started his career in the Officers' Training School, at RAAF Base Point Cook, as a member of the directing staff, before being promoted and taking up a posting in 1999 as the Senior Engineering Officer at the RAAF School of Technical Training.
The second posting to the Aircraft Structural Integrity section began in 2001 at RAAF Base Laverton, and then a third posting to Ottawa, Canada in 2003 at the National Research Council of Canada to provide Technical Liaison Support to the F/A-18 International Follow-On Structural Test Program. WGCDR Klose completed Australian Command and Staff Course in 2005, and was subsequently posted in December 2005 to be Staff Officer to the Head of Aerospace Systems Division in the Defence Material Organisation. In February 2006 a new opportunity arose and he began as the Engineering Manager in the C-17A project.
WGCDR Klose was appointed the Commanding Officer, Officers' Training School on 12 January 2009.
WGCDR Klose is married to Elissa and they have two children, Claudia 9 and Katherine 7. WGCDR Klose enjoys golf, and cricket, and watching all codes of football.
