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20.01.2022 Support in the Senate
17.01.2022 THE TYRANNY OF ABUSE OF AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE MEMBERS ENDS NOW! Spare a thought for the SASR soldiers one week away from the 22 JAN 21 "Notice to Show Cause... due date for their petitions to the Chief of the Defence Force, to justify why their employment should not be terminated. Major General Paul Brereton's IGADF Report has replaced both a presumption of innocence, and their right to a fair trial, with a breath-taking silence of the entire nation. ..but not everyone is silent. Recently, SASR WO1 Kerry Danes and Human Rights Lawyer Dr Kay Danes OAM submitted a petition to the House of Representatives in relation to matters concerning serving members of the ADF. Today they were notified that the Standing Committee has approved their petition for distribution. Petition EN2256 - Apply ADF Policy Reforms to include corrective action SIGN THE PETETION HERE: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN2256 This is my own take of the problem: Twenty years’ war in Afghanistan has has robbed us of over 600 Australian veterans to suicide - that we know of. Many more of us remain suspended in a permanent state of suicidal ideation. More than 5800 of us are homeless. 323,916 of us are in receipt of Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) pensions. More than 6000 Ex-Service Organisations, have been established, most of which are Not-For-Profit, all of which inadvertently cover-up the $11 billion per annum failure of DVA to perform its most basic functions. In fact every coalition nation that has committed boots on ground in Afghanistan, has experienced formidable suicide, homelessness, mental illness, addiction, domestic violence and now warcrimes statistics, the investigation of which has been repeatedly obstructed, and the analysis of which is repeatedly reduced to a critique of an individual veteran’s character (or lack of). There are themes of commonality between all this however, that we are all fundamentally overlooking. 1. DEFECTIVE AND CORRUPT MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: There is without a doubt a very strong influence of defective military and political leadership causing much of the deleterious harm of our veterans notwithstanding a politicised role delineation confusion between the basic functions of our elite SOCOMD and infantry soldiers. The SASR role is one of long-range reconnaissance, typically operating in small patrols of between five and six operators with the task of infiltrating enemy-held territory and providing intelligence on enemy activities and capabilities. During such tasks the SASR seeks to evade rather than confront the enemy. The role of infantry, however, is to seek out and close with the enemy, to kill or capture him, to seize and hold ground and to repel attack by day or night, regardless of season, weather or terrain. At the onset of the Afghanistan War, John Howard’s Liberal Party think tanks and marketing gurus predicted that the public response of hundreds of war casualties from Infantry engagement in Afghanistan, would favour poorly with voters in the election ahead. The decision was made to send SASR soldiers to perform the basic function of infantry regiments, presumably because the anticipated deaths of a score of SASR would be less impactful upon the Liberal Party’s re-election chances. The consistent failure of every Chief of the Defence Force since, to rationalise this decision, and to take a leadership role to protect the welfare of their own soldiers, has meant our Special Forces soldiers have repeatedly been sent to a brutal warzone, each soldier burdened with the war effort of a whole section sub-unit, thereby concentrating the psychological and moral injury incurred by a factor of 20, per day, per deployment. The predictable psychiatric manifestation of a war crimes outcome is equally being re-marketed by civilian think tankers, as criminal behaviour of our elite soldiers, with full endorsement of the cowardly CDFs who caused all of this. But the concentrated war trauma accumulated by each of our SOCOMD soldiers, is not the only damaging precipitant of suicide they have suffered in a concentrated dose. 2. AN ABSENCE OF CLINICAL AND INVESTIGATIVE CURIOSITY - AN ABSENCE THAT FEEDS A CORRUPT AND NEGLIGENT NARRATIVE Coalition forces are exposed to developing world pathogens, chemicals, toxins and radiation that never enter the differential diagnostics of civilian clinicians back home. The problem for veterans, is an abysmal absence of clinical curiosity and care among Australian doctors for the veterans who appear to demonstrate consistent and persistent mental health illnesses implicated in their suicides, homelessness, mental illnesses, addictions, domestic violence and now "war criminal" outcomes. All of this ticks boxes of DSM-V diagnostic criteria for "PTSD." This diagnosis becomes problematic when this diagnosis becomes the definitive, exclusive one, even where a member has suffered no trauma. Digging deeper, this PTSD enterprise (as revealed by Sir Peter Cosgrove's "unified coalition,") reveals a widespread pigs in the trough greed entwined in pharmaceutical and psychiatric PTSD remedies of dubious efficacy. FOR FURTHER DETAILS OF COSGROVE'S COALITION: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=430890008260340&id=105033437512667 SF In effect, there has been a widespread, organised and effective misappropriation of all epidemiological analysis of an indisputable military mental health syndrome, to one that has become dangerously individually focussed, instead of broadly so. As an example of a possible differential diagnosis being overlooked, Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that, in order to complete a full life cycle, it must alter the brain chemistry of a rat, to cause it to present itself to a cat to be eaten. There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that the protozoan parasite alters the brain chemistry, and personality of the rat increasing its risk-taking behaviour. Scientists must concede the possibility of a species, toxin, chemical or pharmaceutical (weaponised or in its natural form) that might similarly alter a human's brain, predisposing it to risk-taking or life-ending behaviour. When you consider that such a possibility is never even discussed with respect to the coalition forces’ suicide devastation, it becomes unscientific and negligent for the entire international narrative to be dominated by one that allows for inordinate numbers of veteran suicides (of every coalition nation to commit boots on ground in Afghanistan) to be solely the result of PTSD’ or being a poor fit to the organisation. Somehow, it is crucial for traumatised veterans, and the family members left behind from the devastation of veteran suicide (and from other devastating consequences to an unlabelled potential military mental health syndrome), to be provided an intelligent and compassionate explanation for what went wrong. Certainly 380,000 Australians have demanded these answer (by way of petition) in a call for a Royal Commission, every one of whom has been completely ignored. When trauma is not met with compassionate systems of therapy and justice, this yields the kind of landscape that ADF members and their families are presently enduring. Clearly, the veteran community is being re-traumatised by the absence of compassion, decency and integrity from individuals in positions that demand exemplary levels of these qualities. Australian soldiers have been inappropriately used in Afghanistan, with harmful misappropriated role delineations , sent without proper appraisal of likely harm, and punished for being predictably harmed. Justice systems are conveniently obfuscated for Senior Defence leaders to deny culpability and to deny responsibility. SIGN THE PETITION NOW: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN2256 Dr Dan Mealey Former Army Medical Officer Afghanistan veteran
16.01.2022 Ray’s appeal was heard on the 26th March 2020 by telephone We are disappointed DHAAT did not find warlike service yet we are buoyed by their finding that RCB service was NOT peacetime but hazardous. Read the full text of the Tribunal’s Decision here Tribunal’s Decision The Tribunal decision is appealable in the Federal Court within 28 days of the decision being notified: in our case by the 12th June 2020. [ 697 more words ] http://recognitionofrcbservice.com/rcb-update-2-2020-dhaat/
15.01.2022 The ADF Inspector General’s report was a long time in gestation, and reveals a culture in some ADF personnel that is as bad if not worse than . While individuals remain responsible for the consequences of their actions, ultimate command responsibility is borne at the top of the chain. READ MORE Ross Eastgate is a veteran and a profligate commentator on the range of issues that we confront on a daily basis. Sometimes he tests the boundaries and for this we should be thankful. Kel Ryan FILED UNDER: ADF, AFGHANISTAN, DEFENCE, INVESTIGATION, OPINION, ROSS EASTGATE, WARFARE, WARRIORS http://recognitionofrcbservice.com/opinion-apportioning-bl/
15.01.2022 Minister Chester's wall of silence will not deter our right to expose the truth of the RCB deployment at Air Base Butterworth (1970-1989) as warlike nor our right to challenge the Government's decision that RCB service was peacetime. Since our first formal submission in 2006 the Government has said that the determination of the nature of service would be based on the existing requirements defined at that time of RCB's deployment (1970 to 1989). [ 393 more words ] http://recognitionofrcbservice.com/rcb-update-4-2020-9-nov/
12.01.2022 Australia’s Commitment to the Five Power Defence - Arrangements and the Integrated Air Defence System For almost two decades Australia maintained a Mirage fighter force at Butterworth in Northwest Malaysia during the 1968-89 Communist Insurgency War, or the Second Malaysian Emergency (SME). Australians at Butterworth incurred danger from hostile forces and both countries risked political embarrassment. An army rifle company that became known as Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB) was deployed to Malaysia as a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) in response to the identified terrorist threat. [ 336 more words ] http://recognitionofrcbservice.com/military-and-political-/
12.01.2022 Arising from the Tribunal’s decision and findings we took the following actions: Applied to the Federal Court to seek extension to the 28 days in which to make application for our case. Wrote to Minister Chester to approve hazardous Service. After detailed analysis of various factors including legal jurisdiction and financial we decided to withdraw from any legal appeal of the DHAAT’s decision in the Federal Court. [ 909 more words ] http://recognitionofrcbservice.com/rcb-update-3-2020-more-/
11.01.2022 Today marks 75 days until we commemorate 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and with it, the first of our 75 stories in 75 days telling some of... the stories of the thousands of Australians who served. Our first story is that of Hilda Gray who served in the Women’s Land Army. I encourage you to listen to Hilda’s story, as well as all those we post in the lead-up to this important anniversary. Thank you for your service Hilda. #TYFYS #OneInAMillion
09.01.2022 Some small amount of the numerous documents in our database that clearly indicate that there was a war going on and that there was a real threat to Butterworth which clearly indicates the purpose of RCB to defend the airbase but our government's maintain it was peacetime over the years. WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY AND WE WILL CONTINUE OUR FIGHT FOR PROPER RECOGNITION. YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH YOUR BULLSHIT COVERUPS.
05.01.2022 ARMY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE (RCB Golden Milestone) on 26 Nov 20 was built around the 50th Anniversary of the deployment of what came to be called RCB. LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
04.01.2022 Karl James, head of Military History at the Australian War Memorial, recounts the day Australia announced it was at war, 3 September 1939, which was also Father's Day that year. #OneInAMillion #TYFYS
04.01.2022 Recognition of our service from the Malaysian Armed Forces
