[3] The conversion process was officially completed on 16 October 2017 when the battalion took on this specialist role and was renamed 2 RAR (Amphib), which incorporated its speciality in the name.

[4] Upon 2 RAR's return to Australia in December 1948, they became part of the 1st Independent Brigade Group at Puckapunyal, Victoria, where they would remain until March 1953 as a training unit for recruits for the two battalions fighting in Korea.

Relieving a French battalion, 2 RAR took up a position along the Jamestown Line on Hill 159 and began patrolling in the 'no-man's land' area around the Imjin and Samichon Rivers.

[4] A few weeks later, on the night of 24 July 1953, the Chinese attacked the UN positions on The Hook in an effort to gain more ground prior to the signing of the armistice agreement.

[4] Over the course of two nights, waves of Chinese soldiers attacked the Australian and American positions in frontal assaults aimed at overwhelming the defenders through sheer weight of numbers.

[8] During this time contacts were very limited, and the most intense action came on 22 June 1956 when a five-man patrol from 2 RAR was ambushed by a group of Communists near the Sungei Bemben reservoir.

The Emergency had officially ended in 1960, however the battalion's second tour of Malaya came four years later when it joined the 28th Brigade again, this time at Canberra lines, Camp Terendak near Malacca in October 1961.

[5] In August 1962 they were committed to anti-Communist operations in Perlis and Kedah once more, searching for the remnants of the MNLA Communist guerrillas along the Thai-Malay border.

[5] An advanced party from 2 RAR arrived in South Vietnam for their first tour in April 1967, although the main force did not deploy until the following month, embarking upon HMAS Sydney which had been converted to a troop carrier.

This restriction would mean that many personnel would only be able to serve a six-month tour and, as such, 2 RAR was brought up to full strength by accepting a draft of national servicemen from Australia.

[9] The second tour was focused mainly upon 'pacification', which sought to provide security of the struggling South Vietnamese state by seeking out and destroying the VC in their bases areas and isolating them from the ordinary civilian population.

The VC had been greatly weakened by the failure of the Tet Offensive,[10] and as a result over the twelve months that 2 RAR was deployed contact was significantly less than had been experienced during the first tour, sustaining half the number of casualties.

2/4 RAR, being the online Battalion at the time, also reacted 12 Platoon, Delta Company to provide the security element to the Aviation Task Group sent to Cambodia in support of the UN run Elections.

[5] In 1998 members of Recon/Sniper/Surveillance Platoon were deployed as part of Operation Cranberry with their ANTAS Thermal Imager to support customs in the Torres Straight.

In September 1999, Australia deployed a brigade-sized combat element to East Timor as part of the UN sanctioned International Force – East Timor (INTERFET) that was deployed in order to restore law and order and end the widespread violence and destruction that had broken out following a referendum in August that had shown overwhelming support for independence from Indonesia.

[16] With two M-113 APCs from 3/4 Cav to provide fire support, 'C' Company began moving towards the docks, but found the way blocked as they encountered a number of platoon-strength roadblocks that had been set up by the Indonesian military TNI.

[16] A tense stand-off followed as the Australians set about the task of securing the port in preparation for the arrival of the follow-on seaborne forces that were to land the following day.

[18] On 27 September, 'D' Company, 2 RAR, conducted an airmobile operation into Liquica, west of Dili, before the battalion returned to the capital to continue the task of making the city safe.

[14] By the beginning of October Dili had been fairly well secured and so INTERFET began to move out into areas along the western border with Indonesian West Timor.

[14] In doing so, 116 pro-Indonesian militiamen were captured, later sparking further violence when other militia units began attacking the Australians, resulting in two 2 RAR soldiers being wounded.

[14] Up until this time despite several cases of tense stand-offs earlier in the operation, for the most part the TNI had largely kept its distance from the Australian force as they carried out their evacuation back to Indonesia, however, on 10 October a clash occurred near the border at Mota'ain.

[20] For his leadership under fire, Corporal Paul Teong, commander of the lead section in the forward platoon during the contact, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.

[20] Amidst growing concern of further obstruction by the TNI, 2 RAR continued to conduct operations in the western border areas as slowly but surely security was restored to East Timor.

[12] Under the auspices of the United Nations Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), a two hundred strong reinforced company group based on 2 RAR was deployed to help support civilian police re-establish law and order as part of Operation Anode.

The combat team conducted five major operations during its deployment, effectively expanding the ISAF and ANSF's permanent influence in the Chora Valley and into the Baluchi Pass.

The combat team was able to take the fight to the enemy during several engagements, most notably in the Sorkh Morghab region where all elements of the combat team engaged the enemy over several days allowing the construction of a patrol base and the Afghan Army to move into an area previously considered a Taliban stronghold.

In June 2011, the battalion deployed to Urozgan Province, Afghanistan as the Battle Group Headquarters and Combat Teams of Mentoring Task Force Three (MTF-3).

[34] It is to be responsible for reconnoitering and seizing beaches, helicopter landing zones and airfields for the Australian Amphibious Force's main ground combat element.

2 RAR (Amphib) provided a HQ element, A Platoon of CB Shooting Instructors, A Sniper Pair Training Team and some support personal.

2 RAR (Amphib) provides 14 soldiers as part of the annual Operation (OP RENDER SAFE 2019) from Alpha Coy, 4 Platoon (Small Boats).