Regimental Sergeant-Major 20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment
Warrant Officer Class One Sean Voss was born in Sydney and educated in Victoria. He enlisted into the Regular Army in April 1989. At the completion of recruit training he was allocated to the Royal Australian Artillery. He has held a variety of regimental and instructional appointments in both Training and Land Command units.
After recruit and corps training, he spent 10 years with 131st Divisional Locating Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, where he was employed in a variety of Artillery Signaller and Radar Operator positions. In 1999, he was promoted to Sergeant. In 2000, he was posted to the Army Recruit Training Centre, where he served as a platoon sergeant and drill team sergeant. In 2002, he was posted to 131st Surveillance and Target Acquisition Battery and was promoted to Warrant Officer Class Two. He was employed in a variety of positions as a Warrant Officer Class Two; including Troop Sergeant Major, Sergeant Major Instructor Gunnery / Senior Sergeant Major Instructor Gunnery, Trade Manager for the Radar Operator and Artillery Meteorological and Survey trades, Regimental Operations Warrant Officer and Battery Sergeant Major. In 2010, he was promoted to Warrant Officer Class One and was employed as the Regimental Standards Warrant Officer of 20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment. He was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major, 20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment in Jan 2014.
He has seen operational service in Western Sahara with the 5th Australian Service Contingent, on Operation CEDILLA in 1993 / 1994; as a Watchkeeper within the Surveillance and Target Acquisition Cell as part of Overwatch Battle Group (West) Two in Iraq, on Operation CATALYST in 2006 /2007 and has conducted three short deployments to Afghanistan as the unmanned aerial systems subject matter expert on the operational airworthiness audit teams in 2010, 2011 and 2012 on Operation SLIPPER
He is married to Sarah and together they have two children: Harrison (10) and Ava (8). His interests include most sports and in particular AFL and cricket. Getting away on holidays with his family when time permits is also high on his priority list.