DEF21115 Certificate II in Military Skills

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for DEF21115 ended on 18 May 2026 — 3 months ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockOpen for new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 20 May 2027 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
DEF — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
18 May 2026
Latest release
Release 3 · 21 October 2022 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
DEF21112
Superseded by
DEF20326 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. DEF21115Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Military Skills
  2. not equivalent
  3. DEF20326CurrentCertificate II in Defence Skills

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • DEF21112DEF21115not equivalent21 October 2015

    Supersedes DEF21112 Certificate II in Military Skills. Not equivalent.

  • DEF21115DEF20326not equivalent19 May 2026

    Significant changes to qualification including: Qualification sequencing, title and description, Core and Elective units of competency and packaging rules.

Is DEF21115 on your scope?

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What DEF21115 is made of

training.gov.au lists 20 units for DEF21115: 3 core and 17 elective. To complete it, the register publishes a rule of 3 core units plus 9 electives12 units in all.

Core units 3 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
DEFGEN001Work in a teamcurrent
DEFMIL003Operate a service riflecurrent
DEFMIL008Display the attributes of Defence personnelcurrent

Elective units 17 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBCMM211Apply communication skillscurrent
BSBSUS211Participate in sustainable work practicescurrent
BSBWHS211Contribute to the health and safety of self and otherscurrent
CPCWHS1001Prepare to work safely in the construction industrycurrent
DEFGEN006Work with equity and diversitycurrent
DEFGEN013Provide Initial Response to Combat Casualtycurrent
DEFMIL001Use personal camouflage and concealment in a threat environmentcurrent
DEFMIL002Operate night fighting equipmentcurrent
DEFMIL004Operate a light support weaponcurrent
DEFMIL005Operate a service hand grenadecurrent
DEFMIL006Operate in a threat environmentcurrent
DEFMIL007Participate in ceremonial activitiescurrent
PSPGEN129Access and use resourcescurrent
PSPGEN144Work in a public sector environmentcurrent
PUAOPE013Operate communications systems and equipmentcurrent
SISOFLD006Navigate in tracked environmentscurrent
SISOFLD007Navigate in difficult tracked environmentscurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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