The Royal Australian Regiment has evolved over the past 75 years with improvements in technology, equipment and structure, but one thing remains the same: Duty First. In this episode, we'll hear from the wider RAR family including RAR Foundation and support systems for veterans, family support, and what the future holds for the RAR.

Featured interviews:

• Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley (nee McMartin)
• Major General Shane. Caughey, AM, CSC, Colonel Commandant (Rtd) - 2/4RAR, 6RAR, Chair RAR Foundation
• LTGEN Peter Leahy AC (retd) - 8/9RAR
• MAJGEN Stuart Smith AO, DSC (retd) - 1RAR
• MAJ Glenn Crosland (Retd) - Secretary RAR Foundation

Episode cover image:
MAJ Glenn Crosland (Retd) Secretary of the RAR Foundation and CPL Boardman of 1RAR at the 2023 DoG Cup.

Produced by Pivot Studios for the Department of Veterans Affairs and The Royal Australian Regiment Foundation.

If you need support for PTSD or a mental health condition, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Members of the RAR can receive non urgent assistance from the RAR Foundation through battalions. Talk to your current or former battalion CO or padre for more information.

After the peacekeeping missions of the 1990s, the RAR experienced an unprecedented period of operational service, most notably in Iraq and Afghanstan in what would become the Regiment's longest ever war.

Featured interviews:

• Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison AO, the Chief of Australian Army - 2RAR, 8/9RAR
• Daniel (Dan) Keighran VC - 2RAR, 6RAR

Episode cover image:
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Produced by Pivot Studios for the Department of Veterans Affairs and The Royal Australian Regiment Foundation.

If you need support for PTSD or a mental health condition, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Members of the RAR can receive non urgent assistance from the RAR Foundation through battalions. Talk to your current or former battalion CO or padre for more information.

After seven long years in Vietnam, the Regiment went through an unprecedented period of peace, however this was all about to change as the international peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and East Timor in the 1990s.

Featured interviews:

• General Sir Peter John Cosgrove, AK, CVO, MC - 9RAR, 1RAR
• His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia - 1RAR, 5/7th
• BRIG Pat Mcintosh AM, CSC (retd) - 2/4RAR
• MAJGEN Stuart Smith AO, DSC (retd) - 1RAR

Episode cover image:
Somalia. 1993-01-20. Private Paul Ingram, 1RAR (1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment), of Balwyn, Vic, with supplies for food distribution to the village of Sahmandeera. He is serving with the Australian contingent to the Unified Task Force in Somalia (UNITAF). By Dex, T R courtesy of AWM.

Produced by Pivot Studios for the Department of Veterans Affairs and The Royal Australian Regiment Foundation.

If you need support for PTSD or a mental health condition, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Members of the RAR can receive non urgent assistance from the RAR Foundation through battalions. Talk to your current or former battalion CO or padre for more information.