East Timor border contact at Motaain 10/10/1999

East Timor border contact - 8 platoon c coy 2 RAR

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• military
• motaain
• east
• timor
• 2rar
• interfet
• australian
• army
• border
• contact
• 1999
• war
• indonesia

[adflwf]

were these boys SASR or regies?

[jjink69]

@adflwf Mate you can work this out from the description, but anyway - 8 platoon, C Company, 2RAR.

2 RAR stands for Second Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (second to none) and are based in Townsville QLD. Not SASR they are based in Perth.

[lipanmarder]

A little advice from asian guy: When handing out items to asian people, hand them over using right hand, not left. it's rude to hand them over using left hand. nor does receive to receive an item. receive them using right hand...

[jjink69]

@lipanmarder Good advise for a westener going to an asian region for a holiday. Not applicable for an Australian soldier or any soldier deployed as part of INTERFET. To take your rifle out of your right hand while on patrol just to hand over or receive an item could be a fatal mistake, especially when you see what happened in this video.

[stusurf1]

@jjink69 oy just fricken stusurf1 again if my memory serves me right the policeman behind the palm tree was killed in this contact. 1 RAR 2001 tour we got all the info

[jjink69]

@stusurf1 yeah man thats right but the guy behind the palm tree is TNI, not sure if he was killed as well but there was more than just the one Polri. This was quickly covered up by the Indos as we didnt get to do a battlefield clearance due to the fact that the contact happened over the border.

[TheAngryFishermen]

Shoot the cunts onya boys

[Gam3rzulu]

wonderful job guys, keep up the good work, you have our full support and upmost respect

[papalegua6]

@Riyun72

never change that fellows.....what they did to the "Povo Martir de Timor Leste" they could not change the Faith and theHearts of the Timorenses.

[whyalla71]

Lucky the TNI soldiers are crap shots

[Riyun72]

@pbl826 You ignorant too, pal go see what your "great" army is doing to unarmed people in West Papua. You throw around this world "racism" and yet you uneducated twit write racist things yourself. Are you that thick in the head you dont realise what you type? Wanker Indo SF were found in Timor.

[Riyun72]

@lipanmarder Is that because you dont know how to use toilet paper?

[tomermoderchai]

@Kirkzzy. Not to mention Australias Defensive Battle plan and the biggest factor of all- the weather.....

[splintamike]

@lipanmarder In my experience, when you're handing out food, they'll take it from which ever hand its offered - just like everyone else in the world.

[Riyun72]

@jjink69 They got the militia out of there pretty quick too didn't they? Didn't want to world to see that they were supporting those murderous bastards. Apparently the militia were planning to enter East Timor from this village to go on rampage. Indo SF were training them and going into East Timor with the militia.