"Because peace negotiations were starting to develop our commanding officer wasn't allowed to actually attack those camps which we were very upset about in some ways. We'd trained for years to do it. Other battalions had been very successful in giving the Indonesians a very good clobbering and they were preventing the Indonesians attacking on the Malaysian side of the border. We'd stop launching these patrols and then we'd hear that the negotiations were breaking down and we'd start them..."

LIEUTENANT CLAUDE DUCKER