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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.
Here is the RCB Tour of Duty Database which covers the sub-units to deploy from 1 Nov 70 to 31 Dec 89. 20201012-RCB-Tour-of-Duty-Database-CIM-68-89-period-onlyDownload It includes all people doing the job of SGT and above at the time they deployed. The latter date is...
At long last the Minister decided to appoint an independent inquiry into medallic recognition of RCB service with the DHAAT. Information about the inquiry, and how to make a submission, can be found on the Tribunal’s...
The RCBRG thanks the Minister for initiating the current inquiry by DHAAT into the service of Rifle Company Butterworth 1970-1989. For many years the Department of Defence have been holding up previous, flawed, reviews as a reason that a new inquiry into RCB service...
The independent Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal will re-examine the issue of medallic recognition for Australians who served with Rifle Company Butterworth in Malaysia between 1970 and 1989. Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Defence Personnel Andrew Gee...
This Report originated from the RCBRG's challenge over 15 years to the Government's decision that RCB service was peacetime service. Despite RCBRG's evidence (much from the then declassified 212 secret and 16 top secret documents) supporting their claim for warlike...
In the Update the email address we stated for Minister Gee was to his Calare Electorate Office. Responses from that address were the standard response. To ensure your email is received immediately by the Minister please send or resend it to this email...
Events are moving quickly as we approach the next Federal Election and we maintain pressure on the Minister for Defence Personnel Andrew Gee to make a decision on our RCB claim for warlike service. You are well aware of the continued delays from the Minister Gee in...
Minister, we commend your statement yesterday that your “personal integrity is not up for compromise" and that veterans “sign up to put their lives on the line for our country, because they love their country and do so not for money”. Your comments go to the heart of...
There is a long running dispute between the RCBRG and the Defence Department on the rightful categorisation of RCB’s service in Malaysia 1970 – 1989 to protect the RAAF assets at Air Base Butterworth (ABB) during the Communist Insurgency (1969-1989). Defence records...
It’s five months (135 days and counting) since Ray Fulcher sent the last RCB submission for review to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Hon. Andrew Gee. It was supported by the Ethicos Report written by Howard Whitton a noted authority on governance probity and law...