The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) is the armoured infantry battalion of the Australian Army, based in Kapyong Lines, Townsville as part of the 3rd Brigade (Armoured Amphibious). 3 RAR traces its lineage to 1945 and has seen operational service in Japan, Korea, Malaya, Borneo, South Vietnam, Rifle Company Butterworth, East ...

3 RAR maintains a high readiness state as part of the ADF Ready Deployment Force. The Battalion is scheduled to move to Townsville in 2011 to join the rest of 3 Brigade, where it will maintain its Parachute capability, in the form of a smaller high-readiness Airborne Combat Team in place of the Parachute Battalion Group maintained up until this ...

The Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) is the parent administrative regiment for regular infantry battalions of the Australian Army and is the senior infantry regiment of the Royal Australian Infantry Corps.

2021年10月12日 · Old Faithful’s story was remembered this week, as soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), commemorated Kapyong Day. From supporting the NSW Police on Operation COVID-19 Assist to supporting the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) as part.

In 1945 Australia sent three units to Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). Originally known as the 65th, 66th and 67th Infantry Battalions, they were raised from Australian Divisions stationed in New Guinea at the end of the Second World War.

By mid 1983, the Battalion was able to conduct company sized parachute operations and on 21 Oct 83, 3RAR became the Parachute Infantry Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment and became the core of the Parachute Battalion Group, the ADF's conventional parachute force.

2011年9月1日 · Our brothers in Australia’s 3RAR officially lost their parachute role and will be a Mechanized Infantry unit from here on out. To add insult to injury they are scheduled to move in December from Sydney to Townsville. When you see an Australian Soldier wearing the distinctive wings of 3RAR know that he was a part of something special.

Over the period 3–8 October 1951, 3 RAR fought the Battle of Maryang San, which is widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments of the Korean War, and a copybook example of a deliberate Battalion attack over successive enemy defensive positions.

“Old Faithful”, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR),is the core of the ADF’s parachute battalion group (BPG). 3RAR BPG is a fl exible, high-readi- ness, light infantry group, capable of conducting airbourne and infantry

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