Lance Collins

Lance Collins joined the Australian Army in 1979, graduating from the Officer Cadet School into the Intelligence Corps.  After various Army appointments, Collins was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1995. He served with the Headquarters of the Jont Coalition Task Force in Kuwait in 1998 during the crisis that resulted in the withdrawal of the UN arms inspectors. In 1999 Collins was appointed as the senior intelligence officer for the UN International Force East Timor, which conducted successful peace enforcement operations in East Timor between September 1999 and February 2000. He lives in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.