NEWS FLASH The Australian will publish a news article re our claim for RCB Service Recognition in tomorrow newspaper Friday 28th February.(1) Over the last two days we have been in discussions with their reporter Paul Maley and provided relevant material. We are not...
WELCOME TO OUR RECOGNITION OF RCB CAMPAIGN
Hello and thanks for visiting.
In a nutshell our campaign is to have the Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB)’s service recognised as warlike. The Government, despite the facts discovered since its original decision, says its non-warlike service similar to peacetime garrison duty in Australia.
We have provided evidence of a deception that has denied 9,000 Australian troops and their families certain entitlements to repatriation benefits.
In 1970 RCB was deployed to protect the RAAF assets (aircraft, facilities, servicemen and women and their families) at the Air Base Butterworth Malaysia from 1970 to 1989 at the time when Malaysia was fighting its Counter Insurgency War (1968-1989) against the resurgent communist terrorists.
Australian Cold War Warriors – The Secret Aussie History of the Second Malaysian Confrontation (Counter Insurgency War)
The author, aged 19, Christmas 1977, RCB Malaysia This is the personal account of Private Sean Arthur's experience as a Rifleman at RCB in 5 Platoon, Bravo Company 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) in 1977. "It’s kind of strange to think that an...
RCB Recognition – Ray Fulcher’s personal Appeal to DHAAT
RCBRG Comment. Ray is a legally trained person and an RCB veteran who has forensically examined the government's own documents discovered under Freedom of Information and the public release of 130 ex-SECRET and one TOP SECRET documents, and others obtained from...
Opinion: RCB – Ripping Off Our Diggers – What a Low Act
This article by Peter Kelly, an RCB veteran, has been printed in The Pickering Post "If you asked any soldier, sailor or airman who is even remotely involved in warfighting if they thought about the “administrative tail” of their efforts, most wouldn’t give it a...
RCB UPDATE 3/2019 – AND THE BEAT GOES ON
This is an Update on activities reported in Update 2/2019 Legal Conference Arising from the telephone conference meeting with our barrister it was decided that as there will likely be a new Minister after the election we need to put our case to that person afresh...
RCB Update 2/2019
A big shout out and thanks to our supporters for your generous donations to our RCB Legal Fighting Fund. The result is very encouraging – every little counts and as is said in the song from little things big things grow. You all know that over 12 years our RCB Review...
Minister Chester – Congratulations and Request
Minister, we offer our congratulations to you on our Government’s decision to commission an independent inquiry to examine the information provided by scheme administrators and relevant departments to members of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (DFRDB)...
RCB E-NEWS UPDATE – 3/2018
Since the last Update the Review Team has been actively involved in further evidence discoveries and representations to the Government’s House of Representatives Petitions Committee, complaint and appeal to the Defence Ombudsman, letters to all Parliamentarians and...
Chaplain Gary Stone Speaks out on Recognition of RCB Service 1970-1989
As a veteran of almost 48 yrs military service, the last 24 of which I served as a Chaplain , I must raise my grave concerns about the morality of the treatment of our veterans by ADF and Government officials in their continuing rejection of the substantive evidence...
Battle rages for Diggers – RCB veterans have not surrendered nor will they…
ON the night of December 7-8 1941, Japanese forces began invading Malaya, hours before the attack on US territory Pearl Harbour, Australia’s first casualties on December 8 were the crews of two 1Sqn RAAF Hudson bombers from six aircraft dispatched to bomb Japan’s...