Deployed Rifle Company Teams

Deployed Rifle Company Teams
The Australian Defence Forces maintain a number of Deployed Rifle Company Teams around it's regions of influence. The best example of this would be Rifle Company Team - Butterworth that has existed in one form or another for several decades at the joint Australian-Malaysian Air Force Base in Butterworth, Malaysia.

Other long running examples are the Rifle Company Teams in the Solomon Islands and Timor Leste.

In general these teams are reinforced company groups based on a regular rifle company but with additional elements, like a Battalion Battle Group only company sized.

These units serve as ready regional reaction forces, forward deployed action units, humanitarian and disaster relief ready units and regional training units for foreign allied forces amongst many other roles.

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Deployed Rifle Company Teams - Australian Theatre
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Rifle Company Team - Papua New Guinea (RCT-PG)
Rifle Company Team - PNG is drawn from the 4th Battalion of the Royal Pacific Islands Regiment with other supporting elements from III Corps on a 6 month rotational basis for service in Papua New Guinea under Joint Task Force - 380. It's role is to increase interoperability and training with the PNGDF as well as operational combat surveillance and security in the PNG AO and border regions. It has a role in Counter Narcotics, Counter Terror and Counter People Smuggling as well as supporting the over all goals of the Defence Coooperation Agreement with PNG.

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Rifle Company Team - Solomon Islands (RCT-SI)
Rifle Company Team - Solomon Islands is one of two rifle company groups within Joint Task Force 381 "RAMSI Force", the second company group being the NZ led Combined South Pacific Rifle Company Group ..

Rifle Company Team - South Pacific/Afloat (RCT-SP)
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Deployed Rifle Company Teams - Regional theatre
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Rifle Company Team - Butterworth (RCT-BW)
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Rifle Company Team - Timor Leste (RCT-TL)
Rifle Company Team - Timor Leste is a rotational enhanced company group stationed in TImor Leste under Joint Task Force - 410. JTF-410 role is primarily in training support with the Timor Leste Defence Forces (TLDF) and has secondary security, surveillance and support roles.

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Rifle Company Team - Brunei (RCT-BR)
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Deployed Rifle Company Teams - Global Theatre
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Rifle Company Team - Horn of Africa/Afloat (RCT-HoA)
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Rifle Company Team - Kenya (RCT-KY)
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