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Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment conduct small boats familiarisation training with Royal Solomon Islands Police Force personnel in Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands as part of Exercise COASTWATCHERS II. Story by Lieutenant Geoff Long. Photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvhill.

Maritime partnership on show in Solomons

12/10/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 1916 Views 0 Comments 2RAR (Amphib), Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF), Solomon Islands

Fourteen officers from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) completed a boat-handling course with Army’s 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment during a live fire shoot on board HMAS Canberra in the lead up to Excercise Rim of the Pacific 2022. Story by Flying Officer Lily Lancaster. Photo by Corporal John Solomon.

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Infantry sea a new way to train

13/07/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2803 Views 0 Comments 2RAR, 2RAR (Amphib), EF88 Austyer rifle, His Majesty’s Armed Forces Tonga, HMAS Canberra, RIMPAC

A ship is an unlikely setting for infantry training, but an Army unit aboard HMAS Canberra made it one while

Two US Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallions operate from HMAS Adelaide during the final amphibious assault of RIMPAC 2018. US DoD video screen grab.

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RIMPAC wraps up with final amphibious assault

03/08/201818/08/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3884 Views 0 Comments 2RAR (Amphib), Harpoon, HMAS Adelaide, HMAS Melbourne, HMAS Toowoomba, Poseidon, RIMPAC

More than 1600 members of the Australian Defence Force have successfully completed Exercise RIMPAC 2018, the world’s largest multinational maritime

Australian Australian Army News Overseas USA Videos

2RAR add helocasting to their skill sets

08/07/201808/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4487 Views 0 Comments 2RAR (Amphib), RIMPAC

Australia took a leap forward in amphibious capability recently as 2nd Battalion (Amphibious), Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR (Amphib)) soldiers released

Davo, John S, Wooly, John L, me, Killer and Digger – 5 Section, 2 Platoon, 2RAR on Route 2, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam.

Australian Australian Army News Veterans

2RAR museum curator looking for artefacts

03/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3745 Views 0 Comments 2RAR, 2RAR (Amphib), 2RAR Museum

Have you served or had a relative serve (father, brother, son, husband, etc) in the 66th BN 2nd AIF, 2

2RAR soldiers depart the well deck of USS Green Bay in combat rubber raiding craft during Talisman Saber 17. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sarah Myers.

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Is 2RAR kidding themselves?

04/12/201704/12/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 13671 Views 0 Comments 2RAR (Amphib)

I would like to submit a response to the “2RAR Amphibious” article [in the latest issue of CONTACT magazine]. While

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2RAR will be called 2RAR (Amphib)

04/09/201717/08/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 11035 Views 6 Comments 2RAR (Amphib)

Following a recent CONTACT article that suggested 2RAR would ‘cease to exist as an infantry battalion’, new details have emerged.