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...
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.
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...
Opinion: ABC races to a conclusion
Exuding the moral and legal authority of the High Court, the ABC Investigations Unit has relentlessly pursued Australian special forces it has accused of war crimes in Afghanistan. It appears to have adopted a methodology known in the military as “situating the...
RCB – Right to Contest Government’s Decision
The National Media's Right to Know Campaign provides us with the opportunity to take advantage of their promotions particularly our exposure of the Government's denial to allow us the fundamental right to contest their classification of RCB service as peacetime...
Ex-Colonel Praises Critical Campaign
Australians have a right to know what their Government is doing in their name and to question politicians about their policies, and hoe it is being implemented or not implemented retired Colonel Ray Martin says. Mr Martin was involved in a push for an outreach program...
Sen. Lambie supports RCB veterans’ claim for service recognition
Following, a recent briefing by Ted Chitham on Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB) troops’ claim for recognition of its service as warlike, Jacqui Lambie has agreed to support them. Ted Chitham, Sen. Jacqui Lambie, John Cockburn Warlike service provides qualifying service...
RCB Update 4/2019 – Action Changes Things
Background The evidentiary facts that the RCB Review Group obtained from the Australian Government and the Malaysian Governments’ own records and presented to our Government proves that RCB’s operational deployment (1970-1989) to protect the RAAF assets at Air Base...
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...