No. 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit RAAF

No. 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit
No. 114 MCRU's crest
Active	1943–48 1949–66 1968–current
Allegiance	Australia
Branch	Royal Australian Air Force
Role	Air defence
Part of	No. 41 Wing
Garrison/HQ	RAAF Base Darwin
Motto(s)	Swift to React
Engagements	World War II South West Pacific theatre New Guinea campaign Admiralty Islands campaign Battle of Tarakan Malayan Emergency Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation War in Afghanistan
Battle honours	Pacific (1943–45) New Britain (1943) New Guinea (1943–44) Borneo (1945) Malaysia (1963-66)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Gordon Steege (1943)

No. 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) radar surveillance and air defence unit. Located at RAAF Base Darwin, Northern Territory, it is controlled by No. 41 Wing, under Surveillance and Response Group.^[1] Its role is to "prepare for, conduct and sustain effective deployable Air Surveillance and Air Battle Management in the Unit's designated area of responsibility".^[2] The unit was formed during World War II, and deployed in the South West Pacific. Since the war it has seen service in the Malayan Emergency, the Konfrontasi between Indonesia and Malaysia in the mid-1960s, and the War in Afghanistan.